Ravinia Festival President and CEO Jeffrey Haydon has seen the 2008 movie Slumdog Millionaire twice. The number of times he’s listened to tracks from the film, including the vigorous “Jai…
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Pickle Me Kauri
Pickleball continues to sweep the nation, and perhaps no one enjoys hanging on to one of the “bristles” more than Kauri McKendry. “It’s incredible, the number of people signing up…
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Bears Care
The Chicago Bears and a Glencoe woman have something wonderful in common. Both care about the Highland Park community as it heals in the aftermath of the mass shooting at…
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Viva Andrew Hotz
Andrew Hotz looked at his tablemates under the Memphis sky one night this year and couldn’t believe his good fortune. A Winnetkan since 2020 and a part-time resident of Los…
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A Scholar And A Gentleman
The golf bug bit Tom Kearney at Beverly Country Club in Chicago more than six decades ago. He was 11 and a first-year caddie, making $3.75 per loop. Or about…
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Notably Ellie
The compliment could have qualified as the understatement of the year. It ended up doubling as a career launcher. “You’re good at this,” a woman told ellie Nottoli, after Nottoli,…
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Feels Like Home
He stood outside his New York office on Sundays, greeting people for up to six hours in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson—a Russian-Empire-born…
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A Lawyer’s Lawyer, Bar None
Dentons Senior Counsel Linda Chaplik Harris hoped for one thing whenever she’d drive esteemed colleague Donald G. Lubin from their law office in Chicago to his home in Highland Park….
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Dogged Dave
Highland Park mailman Dave Plucinski walked his route for the final time on June 30, and the numbers are in, none more eyeopening than the final one. 34: Years Plucinski,…
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Fourth Right
You want Lake Forest Festival & Fireworks stories? Event Coordinator Rick Amos has them—plenty of them. There was the year when the headliner and his daughter/backup singer got into an…
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