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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Cartoons
Rockin’ and Givin’
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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Ace Advocate
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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She’s The Bosse
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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Pen & Gerry
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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Sunday Best
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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Stick-To-Itiveness
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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His Central Message
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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A Christmas Story
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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Adventurous To The Gills
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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