Man On A Mission – Or Ten
Joey Morelli is frightened. The butterflies in the stomach of the owner of Max’s Deli in Highland Park have been flitting incessantly since he committed to spend the month of…
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What’s Cooking
The Kenilworth Cookbook Club has never been just about a cookbook. So says the founder, Winnetka resident Allison McEntee, 42, who is as frank and as fun-loving as they come….
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Father Negotiates Best
The son of a man who helped resolve the Major League Baseball umpires’ strike in 1979 has written a book about his father. It’s a home run—if you’re into reading…
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Homing In On A Classical Approach
Jennifer Burns loved working for a small marketing consulting firm in Evanston nearly 20 years ago. The Fortini-Campbell Company’s clients were large corporations, Hewlett-Packard among them, and Burns—with a master’s…
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Franco Files
Highland Park’s Betsey Pinkert first heard French at 4 years old in ballet class, and it was a coup de foudre, a love-at-first-sight-like attraction to the sound of the language…
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Roemer Candle
The moment Patrick Roemer saw Cici for the first time at a Libertyville shelter dog fair in 2014, he flashed a smile that his mother, Fronzie, continues to recall every…
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She Can Dance-And Teach And Inspire
The Wondrous Whirlwind from Winnetka, also known as Jenny Oelerich, has to sit still, finally. It’s a recent midafternoon at the Community House in Winnetka, where the Winnetka native and…
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Hope Of Joe
Joe Torgerson was born in Hong Kong, moved to Taiwan at the age of 12, attended colleges in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Deerfield, worked and studied in Missouri, returned to…
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Firsel and Foremost
When Karen Firsel was an associate producer of The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2004, she came up with an idea that she hoped would punctuate the latter part of the…
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A Real Corky
Charles “Corky” Leighton was a strapping lad while growing up in Toledo, Ohio. He had reached the height of six feet before the end of seventh grade, a veritable Gulliver…
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