Jody O’Connor’s black-and-white photograph of the blinds in her Edgewater apartment features shadows and light. Some of the shadows blotching the white slats could pass for either gnarled tree branches…
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Let There Be Songs To Fill The Air
Have tie-dye T-shirt, will travel. To Europe. To Canada. To Maine and to California. And to states in between. Highland Park resident and public relations maven Ilyse Strongin attended hundreds…
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Brand New
Susan Newman’s spiral is better than yours. It must be. The Highland Park native whips a football to her father, Dave Gordon, at Sunset Woods Park in Highland Park up…
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Happy Camper
The 8-year-old boy reached the top of the Banner Day Camp climbing wall and rang the wall’s bell a few summers ago. His reaction, 24 feet above a crowd of…
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Fired Up
How did Tony DeRose roll in high school? As a tire boy for his father’s Libertyville-based company, Berry Tire & Auto, that’s how. For years he’d deliver tires and change…
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United They Stand
Decades ago, when Ted Stewart was a toddler, all things in his family’s house in New Hampshire had a shaky shelf life. Little Teddy was a bootieswearing bowling ball. Everything…
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Fashionably Great
Twin sisters Brie and Tyler Stolberg thought outside the Lemonade Stand when they came up with their summer business venture in early July. Way outside. The 10-year-old Highland Park residents…
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Lyon’s Den
Lake Forest native and former Northridge Prep High School golf captain Will Lyon has zero interest in shooting for a green jacket at the Masters. He’s been too busy succeeding…
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Tibbles ‘N (News) Bits
Longtime television newsman and Highland Park resident Kevin Tibbles covered Princess Diana’s funeral in London and marveled at flowers across streets and sidewalks stretching as wide as the Mediterranean. He…
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Selling Time
The clock behind the bar at Teddy O’Brian’s in Highwood is always 20 minutes, at least, ahead of the real time. “Bar time,” people in the industry call it. “It’s…
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