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Seeing The Light

by Bill McLean • October 16, 2020
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Jody O’Connor’s black-and-white photograph of the blinds in her Edgewater apartment features shadows and light. Some of the shadows blotching the white slats could pass for either gnarled tree branches…
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Let There Be Songs To Fill The Air

by Bill McLean • October 9, 2020
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Have tie-dye T-shirt, will travel. To Europe. To Canada. To Maine and to California. And to states in between. Highland Park resident and public relations maven Ilyse Strongin attended hundreds…
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United They Stand

by Bill McLean • September 4, 2020
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Decades ago, when Ted Stewart was a toddler, all things in his family’s house in New Hampshire had a shaky shelf life. Little Teddy was a bootieswearing bowling ball. Everything…
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Tibbles ‘N (News) Bits

by Bill McLean • August 28, 2020
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Longtime television newsman and Highland Park resident Kevin Tibbles covered Princess Diana’s funeral in London and marveled at flowers across streets and sidewalks stretching as wide as the Mediterranean. He…
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King Of Hope

by Bill McLean • August 21, 2020
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Shortly before Grandma Eleanor, an avid fisherman, died and received her license to fish for halos atop the heavenly waters above, she opened an eye as her grandson, Chris Tarzon,…
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Thanks A Lot

by Bill McLean • August 14, 2020
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The minnow version of the American business reality television series Shark Tank darted and foraged for the first time last year, right here along the North Shore. Winnetka children’s author…
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Arts + Environment

by Bill McLean • July 31, 2020
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Rhoda Pierce sat among an audience of approximately 400 at a local event in the late 1960s. Nobody knows for sure how many words speaker Gloria Steinem uttered on that…
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Cause And Effective

by Bill McLean • June 19, 2020
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Sarah Matthews’ heart got super warm near an ice rink several years ago. The Highland Park resident was on a break with other young campers at her first hockey goaltenders…
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Steadfast Ed

by Bill McLean • June 12, 2020
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Ed Kugler quit meat cold turkey nearly 50 years ago. The Highland Park teen who’d regularly eat bacon for breakfast, cold cuts for lunch, and some kind of meat for…
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Chalet’s Cachet Continues To Grow

by Bill McLean • May 22, 2020
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Lawson Thalmann’s dream to play in the NBA dribbled out of bounds halfway through his basketball career at Loyola Academy. But not because he had lost the drive to shoot…
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