Photographer Art Shay, an icon of the Chicago arts community, died April 28 of heart failure at his Deerfield home. He was 96. Michelle Monroe, co-owner of the Monroe Gallery…
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Ravinia Leader Takes The Stage
It does not happen often, but when Ravinia Festival President and CEO Welz Kauffman is not programming Ravinia’s summer season, scouting artists at concerts and musical festivals around the world,…
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Top Story: Library Closes Book on Purse
“Definitely me.” Ellen Pritikin Polito confirmed in an email that she is the woman whose long-lost purse recently was found after more than a half-century inside a wall at the…
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Top Story: Library Finds Hidden Purse
In 1973, author John Bellairs wrote the award-winning children’s gothic horror novel, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, illustrated by Edward Gorey. Unknown until now, in about 1966…
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No Pier Pressure
In 2013, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel approached William Brodsky about assuming the role of Chairman of Navy Pier. Brodsky, a New York transplant to the city, responded to his long-time…
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Rich Cohen: Story of a Curse
There are certainly more radical forms of childhood rebellion than swearing allegiance to the Chicago Cubs. But when eight year-old Rich Cohen’s father, a Brooklyn native and New York Yankees…
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Honor Flight Connects Vets to Past, Present, Each …
Clarence “Gene” Myers, 76, does not talk about his service in Vietnam, not to an interviewer, not to his family, not even to the other friends and fellow veterans with…
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Craft Beer Fest Joins St. Joe’s Oktoberfest
These are boom times for craft breweries and the people who enjoy them. There are more than 150 craft breweries in Illinois, whose growing popularity is tied to a “drink…
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Winnetka Statue Put To Work
WINNETKA – For Winnetka resident Brad McLane and the august Sheridan Road house known as the Wayside, it was love at first sight. The 19th century home, once occupied by…
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Ochsner: World Traveler With a Million Stories
“I think he was Bruce Wayne.” So jokingly suggests James Mount, who works in administration with the Lake Bluff Police Department, of Lake Bluff resident Othon Henry Ochsner II, who…
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