Heart, health, Hansen drive FSG mission
All eyes were on a 23-year-old Bill Hansen, a first-year teacher on his first day of a summer Head Start program circa 1980.The wide orbs belonged to the preschool children…
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Glencoe
Fun & Names
A man named Lake Speed raced stock cars for a living. Gene Tenace (rhymes with “tennis”) played baseball for four Major League Baseball teams from 1969-1983, and Pete Rose (not…
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Our Kind of Town
The Village of Glencoe is celebrating its 150-year anniversary this year, and what better way to kick off the festivities than with a musical tribute mixing old songs with fresh…
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So Happy Together
Ella Joy Won can’t stop laughing in the video. Eight years old at the time and playing Heads Up!—the game that Ellen DeGeneres plays on her TV show—Ella Joy had…
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All Aboard!
The Woman’s Board of the Chicago Horticultural Society celebrated its 13th annual gala, All Aboard!, at the beautiful Chicago Botanic Garden in November. More than 340 guests raised $310,000 for…
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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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Hallmark of Hope
Boys Hope Girls Hope (BHGH) of Illinois Chairman Jamie Baisley stood in a back yard in Evanston not too long ago, observing sheer joy emanating from teenagers and their proud…
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Bask in the Floral Splendor
Experience endless summer in the dead of winter in Glencoe. “In the Tropics: The Orchid Show” runs from February 9 through March 24 at Chicago Botanic Garden (CBG). The eye-popping…
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Cafe Cuisine
When a well-run, locally owned business opens on the North Shore, news travels fast. It’s been just two months since Glencoe’s Hometown Coffee and Juice launched in its corner location…
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Doug Roth 2.0 Rates a 10
Third-generation restaurateur Doug Roth has a college-aged stepdaughter named Hunter. But he has never been a fan of the word “stepdaughter.” “I call her my bonus daughter or daughter 2.0,”…
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