Six young poets gathered one recent summer week in a soft-lit sitting room at Ragdale, architect Howard Van Doren Shaw’s former Lake Forest estate, and now one of the country’s…
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Sunday Funday
Supporting great causes financially is a worth while endeavor. Finding ways to engage with the people and programs one supports, makes the giving even more meaningful. That’s certainly been the…
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The Art of Craft
The morning light filtering in from the front window at Jeff Miller’s hand-crafted furniture gallery is soft—soft as the gentle curves that beckon from the designer craftsman’s elegant chairs. Each…
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Bright Futures
The strides that Rush University System for Health (RUSH) has made over the last seven decades to improve health care throughout Chicago are beyond impressive. Since 1948, the academic health…
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Sunday Breakfast: Ed Asner
It’s almost 10 p.m. on a perfect Saturday night. Ed Asner, clad in the Hawaiian shirt, cargo shorts, and Dodgers cap he just wore in his comical one-man show, “A…
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Sunday Breakfast: Zander Bush
A few minutes into my Sunday meeting with Highland Park High School (HPHS) junior Zander Bush, he’s already intrigued me with a story both quirky, and inspiring. The story begins…
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First Love
Boy meets girl, falls in love, and spends the next year trying to hang on through the ups, downs, twists, and turns of that first, wild ride. Ultimately? Boy learns…
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Dream Week
Whether you are a design professional or a North Shore resident looking for fresh inspiration for the home you are building or remodeling, the Highwood Chamber of Commerce’s (HCC) new…
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Large As Life
We’ve all seen plein air artists at work, their easels pitched near lovely garden vistas, delicately painting miniature representations of the scenes at hand. But Lake Forest-based artist Sam Rosenthal…
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Running with Rachel
Rachell Runion greets me at her office in business casual dress and black pumps with a chubby baby on her hip. Nine months old, with huge brown eyes, a sparkly…
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