The Lurie Children’s Bridges Junior Board has been holding a Dance-A-Thon fundraiser since 2014 to benefit the Lurie Children’s Hospital, raising nearly $400,000 since that time. This year, with the…
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In These Times
Earlier this year when the COVID-19 pandemic began to rage, artist Caren Rudman committed herself to making a piece of art every day throughout quarantine and posting a photo of…
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North Shore Namecheck
As a once middle school social studies teacher, Gerry Lekas used to spend a lot of time in the library looking at books. He always thought it would be cool…
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Ballet On The Big Screen
The Joffrey Ballet’s annual production of The Nutcracker, one of the Chicago area’s most beloved holiday traditions, will go on this year despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Only bigger. From now…
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Finding Your Perfect Match
It’s not quite a marriage, but the relationship homebuyers and sellers have with their real estate brokers and agents is immensely important—especially in a fast-moving, tight market the North Shore…
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Keys To The Castle
Visitors to Whitehall in Lake Forest can be forgiven for assuming they’ve been cast as modern-day extras in a classic British period drama. The estate, commissioned in 1920 by Continental…
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High Flying Market
In early September, the iconic Mayflower Place (better known as the Schweppe Mansion) in Lake Forest sold for $5 million after spending 13 years on the market. The 28-room mansion…
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Corporate Champs
Since it was formed in 1992, the Highland Park Community Foundation has provided more than $2.2 million in grants to nonprofits in the region. Now it wants to do even…
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Summer Sizzler
Home is where the heart is. And the office. And the classroom. Changes to our lives brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic have altered, perhaps forever, how we view our…
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High Flying Octogenarian
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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