Giving the Gift of Reading
When they were young girls growing up in Lake Forest, Cecelia Gottman would tease Lauren Fairchild for burying her nose in books. “As a kid, I wasn’t as interested in…
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Features
Sunday Breakfast: Matt Ravenscraft
No phone. No computer. Oh, and one more thing, young man: You’re not allowed to speak English, at anytime, for seven months. Matt Ravenscraft faced those daunting challenges in Logrono,…
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Steak Expectations
The first time I met Amy Morton, North Shore restaurateur and member of the Morton Steakhouse dynasty, we drank French press coffee on velvety sofas at Found Kitchen & Social…
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The Little Closet that Could
North Chicago’s Mary Carmody stands in the middle of a tangled field of grasses, with wooded acreage beyond. To her right, a clapboard farmhouse looms near a copse of oak…
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Sunday Breakfast: Don Meyer
Don Meyer’s phone rang. The Lake Forest College music professor was an exhausted, overwhelmed first-year graduate student at the UC Davis, when he picked up the receiver in the Era…
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Hit the Slopes
It’s the most wonderful time of the year and if you’re looking for the perfect staycation in the Chicago area, we’ve found your match. With all of the hustle and…
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Crafting for a Cause
The Auxiliary of NorthShore University HealthSystem celebrated the 35th anniversary of its signature fundraiser the American Craft Exhibition (ACE) by raising more than $570,000 during this year’s event. This amount,…
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Kenilworth Cooks
It’s a snowy Thursday night and Shawn Bard’s house is lit up like a film set. Out in front, cars park, doors slam, and clusters of women hurry up the…
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Waves of Talent
En route to helping New Trier’s 200-yard medley relay set an astounding record at the girls swimming and diving state meet in the home water last weekend, senior Joelle Ohr—the…
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Sunday Breakfast: Devon Bruce
Uncle Terry would shake hands with a constituent, listen to the constituent, converse with the constituent, listen some more. A minimum wage worker? A millionaire? A mother of four? A…
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