Tom Cruise’s character in the 1983 movie Risky Business, Joel Goodsen, ate fries in a scene shot at Shelton’s Ravinia Grill in Highland Park. The diner closed in 1993. An…
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Info Retainment
Former wedding photographer Wayne Citron married his creative juices to his entrepreneurial spirit about five years ago. The coupling produced a unique product, SelfSafe—the stylish and sporty USB emergency ID…
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Ark Angel
Organizers of a holiday event for children with cystic fibrosis needed a volunteer to portray Santa Claus decades ago. Chicagoan Sheldon Yusim offered his time and enthusiasm and hearty laughs….
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Earnest & Seasoned
A teenaged Jeff Perry worked at a shoe repair shop in Cleveland for four years. He’d ring up sales on the cash register, resole shoes, and affix replacement heels—all while…
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Real Newsman
Bill Plante longs for the days when broadcast news reporters were … broadcast news reporters. The Loyola Academy graduate and longtime CBS newsman (Plante got hired by the network in…
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Gale Force
Put Gale Strenger Wayne’s DNA under a microscope and you’d see a double helix carrying genetic instructions for civic responsibility. Her late father, Don, was a longtime Lake County Board…
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Seeing The Light
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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Smashing Return
Don’t ever challenge Billy Corgan to the board game Scrabble. His business partner Chloe Mendel has, and her sit-down battles versus the lead singer of The Smashing Pumpkins have been…
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