Empowered by Knowledge
The 23rd Annual MRW Health Resource Center Benefit Luncheon on Wednesday, May 1, promises this year’s attendees will be “Empowered by Knowledge.” Presenting at the luncheon is Julian Bailes, MD,…
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2019 ACE Kickoff
The Auxiliary of NorthShore University HealthSystem hosted a special kickoff for the 2019 American Craft Exposition (ACE) at the Chicago Botanic Garden in February. 2018 ACE co-chairs Leslie Sevcik and…
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Pret a Picnic
Ravinia Festival President and CEO Welz Kauffman begins his 19th year with North America’s longest-running music festival as the Chicago Tribune’s 2018 Chicagoan of the Year for Classical Music. But…
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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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Dandy Debut
Ilya Mondrowski had to pick a famous person and sketch him or her. That was the assignment last year for his art class at Edgewood Middle School in Highland Park….
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22nd Annual Benefit Grants Award Dinner
YEA! Highland Park hosted its 22nd annual benefit in late November awarding more than $275,000 to 30 organizations and agencies in Highland Park and Highwood. Guests mixed and mingled at…
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The Year of Swimming Expeditiously
The year 1979 will be on the minds of Highland Park High School’s boys swimming and diving team members at this weekend’s sectional in the home water. That was when…
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Trip the Light Fantastic
The lighted free-form sculpture on Temple Avenue in Highland Park may, at first glance, seem like a ghost of Christmas just past, but this is no ordinary holiday decoration or…
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Fashion Plate: Former Highland Park Waitress …
Anne Harper credits her mom and the community of Highland Park with much of her success. The founder of the hugely popular OMG! Accessories line of whimsical girls bags, went…
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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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