Upscale Rummage
Renee Baldwin sits in a squishy, comfortable couch at Libertyville-based Upscale Rummage, the nonprofit re-sale shop she launched at the Montessori School of Lake Forest in 1999. The white couch…
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by Bill McLean •
Renee Baldwin sits in a squishy, comfortable couch at Libertyville-based Upscale Rummage, the nonprofit re-sale shop she launched at the Montessori School of Lake Forest in 1999. The white couch…
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by Bill McLean •
Lifelong Highland Park resident Jeff Gerchenson was 9 years old and the thrilled owner of an acoustic guitar—given to him by his mother, Bernice—when the thought of practicing the instrument…
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by Bill McLean •
Teri Dreher has an airtight excuse for not remembering exactly how many times she and her family moved before her 18th birthday. The number, after all, is somewhere north of…
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by Bill McLean •
Kim Bosse’s hand went straight up. She was a fourth grader at the time, attending a school in Northbrook, when her teacher had asked the class if anyone would like…
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by Bill McLean •
Gerry Lekas and his wife, Noreen, enter a movie theater in 1982. Night Shift, directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton, Henry Winkler, and Shelley Long, is about to…
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by Bill McLean •
Interesting and unique insights—along with occasional funny comments—never get old. Our “Sunday Breakfast” subjects spoke volumes in 2021. We learned. We contemplated. We laughed. It’s a good time to revisit…
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by Bill McLean •
Field hockey’s pull was too strong to resist for Ellie Bisceglia. Even in the face of a seemingly mightier force—the pandemic. It was the summer before the start at the…
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by Gregg Shapiro •
When a mutual friend introduced Josh Parsons and his future wife, fellow Minnesotan Sarah, at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, neither Josh nor Sarah knew they had played together, sung…
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by Bill McLean •
Holiday movies have come a long way since the days of Miracle on 34th Street and It’s A Wonderful Life. While they seem to be as plentiful as holiday sales…
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by Bill McLean •
Ed Stein, Man of a Thousand Adventures and a fly-fishing aficionado, sits in the spacious, immaculate basement of his home in Highland Park, regaling a first-time visitor with details of…
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