Sunday Breakfast: Elizabeth “Liza” …
“I have a wonderful story about a dead body in an ice house.” How’s that for an icebreaker? Elizabeth “Liza” Yntema of Winnetka has several such compelling stories to share,…
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Sunday Breakfast
Sunday Breakfast: Steven Elrod
At eight o’clock on a sunny spring morning, Highland Park’s Country Kitchen café is a busy place. In the time that it takes Steven Elrod to walk the 15 or…
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Sunday Breakfast: CBS’ Vince Gerasole
Vince Gerasole is cracking eggs. Brown shelled, they split open, bright orange yolks and slippery whites sliding with a “plop!” into the mixing bowl. As Gerasole whisks, prepping the French…
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Curator’s palette holds healing power
Art and cancer. Cancer and art. The two have had a connection in the life of Caren Helene Rudman since she stared at a blank canvas in her art studio…
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Klein front and center–as a backstage …
Phyllis Klein and I meet on a winter day, early afternoon, in Deerfield. An invitation had been extended to chat over breakfast at a restaurant, anywhere along the North Shore….
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Ageless camp counselor
He runs around and around at one end of a soccer pitch before every New Trier High School varsity girls soccer match in the springtime, camping under corner kicks, jumping…
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Popp’s TV ads crackle with humor
Matthew Broderick was ailing. The actor who portrayed the titular character in the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was in no shape to perform in a scene, set in…
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Scott great! Giller family greater
The distance between the Giller home in Wilmette and Fonseca Martial Arts in Wilmette is shorter than a mile. Scott Giller walked it one day with daughter Jillian, his eldest…
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Business Teacher Bullish on Theater
The Schaumburg High School senior gymnast wanted to hit the stage in the late 1970s, not the mats. He aimed to land his first role, not a dismount off the…
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Classrooms Without Walls
It’s a mid-November morning, and I’m in Poland, shivering in the dark and hearing a medley of haphazard animal noises at the Warsaw Zoo. OK, not really. I’m actually in…
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