Smashing Return
Don’t ever challenge Billy Corgan to the board game Scrabble. His business partner Chloe Mendel has, and her sit-down battles versus the lead singer of The Smashing Pumpkins have been…
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by Bill McLean •
Don’t ever challenge Billy Corgan to the board game Scrabble. His business partner Chloe Mendel has, and her sit-down battles versus the lead singer of The Smashing Pumpkins have been…
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by Bill McLean •
Twin sisters Brie and Tyler Stolberg thought outside the Lemonade Stand when they came up with their summer business venture in early July. Way outside. The 10-year-old Highland Park residents…
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by Bill McLean •
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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by Bill McLean •
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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by Mitch Hurst •
A month before Zack Ignoffo was invited to audition for the Food Network’s reality television show, Worst Cooks in America, his dad asked for his help to make dinner. Ignoffo…
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by Bill McLean •
On your mark, get set … go. And dream big That’s exactly what a Glencoe sprinter named Peter Goldman did in his grammar school years in the 1950s. His personal…
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by Bill McLean •
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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by Bill McLean •
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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by Elaine Doremus •
With many large gatherings shut down for the 2020 season, North Shore residents will be thrilled to know that the Ravinia Farmers Market will still open on June 3. Ravinia…
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by Mitch Hurst •
When the athletic careers of Brandon Bollig and his wife, Dannah, came to an end—his as a professional hockey player and hers as an NCAA Division I soccer player—both were…
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