Pint-Sized Gardeners
It’s been raining all day, but inside the learning center upstairs at Chalet in Wilmette, a paper plate sunshine smiles down on a group of wiggly children. Gathered in a…
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People
Sunday Breakfast: Carol Summerfield
Often when it comes to the best things in life, timing plays a pivotal role. Highland Park’s Carol Summerfield would vouch for this sentiment 100 percent. As we sit in…
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Fast Firsts
Taylor Gilling might not have to purchase another bag of Skittles until Halloween. The Highland Park High School senior earned a bag of her favorite candy by racing to a…
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Sunday Breakfast: Annie McAveeney
There are many parts that make up the whole. In the ideal family situation, that “whole” includes parents and the unconditional love they show their children—love that shows up in…
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Sunday Breakfast: Rick Sweitzer
The day before Wilmette-based PolarExplorers’s 100th polar expedition was to start, founder Rick Sweitzer was feeling the usual mix of anticipatory thrill and hyper-focused sobriety that always precedes his journeys….
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Applied Hope
Supporters of Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods always love hearing who the next recipient will be for the non- profit’s annual Distinguished Environmental Leadership Award. Last year, actor Robert Redford…
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Sunday Breakfast: Ray Kracik
If there were a board game created to map Ray Kracik’s life, his playing piece would most certainly be a 1930 Model A Ford—one with snappy, red-and-black striped upholstery. “Ha!”…
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Visiting Author
Maddie Moravek, a Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart sophomore from Libertyville, is a big fan of Jean Kwok’s work. Thanks to support from Ragdale Center for the Arts and…
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Hadley 2.0
When 55-year-old educator William A. Hadley lost his sight due to a detached retina in 1915, the challenges he faced were enormous. One by one, Hadley met them, teaching himself…
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