Elyce Metzner missed her annual trip to Skydive Arizona outside Tucson this year, due to travel restrictions from COVID-19. Now she’ll have to wait until she’s 85 years old to…
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Virtual Collection
Scattered across the three campuses—in Grayslake, Vernon Hills, and Waukegan—of the College of Lake County (CLC) is a permanent collection of art created by some of America’s most significant African…
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Brain Food For The Front Lines
Karen Malkin likes giving her clients healthy snacks. A Board Certified Health Coach based in Glencoe, Malkin helps people refine their diets and lifestyles so they can live healthier, more…
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Teaching Moment
When DeSean Jackson of the Philadelphia Eagles posted anti-Semitic comments on his social media pages earlier this month, the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center (IHMEC) in Skokie offered no…
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Knot Worst
A month before Zack Ignoffo was invited to audition for the Food Network’s reality television show, Worst Cooks in America, his dad asked for his help to make dinner. Ignoffo…
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Can’t Stop The Music
Every day, as late afternoon drifts into evening, Ramsey Lewis’s wife, Janet Tamillow, brings him a glass of wine. It’s the signal that his workday is over. It’s time for…
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Show Them The Money
If the recent pandemic has shown us anything in our culture, it’s the cracks that exist in the so called financial safety nets that are supposed to catch us when…
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Boom Economy
While we await hard data about the long-term impact of COVID-19 on the real estate market, an informal survey of Realtors™ on the North Shore reveals the market is not…
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Momma Strong
Karen Nochimowski of Deerfield was lying in bed at 3 a.m. one morning in June 2018 and an idea popped into her head. Nochimowski, founder of the popular Momma Chef…
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Camp In A Box
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions likely to be in place through the fall means that summer camps as we knew them are off the table. This has left North…
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