Bernard Cherkasov and his 13-year-old daughter live in Lakeview, a few homes’ distance from Wrigley Field. The newly appointed Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center Chief Executive and his all-time…
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The waitress at Ernie Risser’s family restaurant in Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania, watches me looking dubiously at the gravy boat she plunked down with the corn pie I ordered. Assuming we’re in…
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Jonathan Salem Baskin wants to bring classic literature to the modern masses and figures he’s found a good way to do it. The PR man, author, and Glencoe resident has…
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Lacrosse, fencing, crew. All fine sports. But for most fans, they don’t hold a candle to baseball, football, and basketball. Yet, in what you could only call a counterintuitive move,…
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Whenever I hear the words, “Valentine’s Day,” this rhyme always comes to mind: The Queen of Hearts, She made some tarts, All on a summer’s day; The Knave of Hearts,…
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John Calk considers himself a corporate brat. The Chairman and CEO of The Federal Savings bank grew up all over the world, but in 8th grade his family settled in…
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The new Deeda Blair: Food, Flowers, & Fantasy (Rizzoli), is a page-turner, both for its presentation and its prose. In the book, Catherine Gerlach Blair, known as “Deeda,” reveals the…
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