Beer Wars
We now know that America’s 13-year experiment with prohibition only empowered gangs, increased violence, and encouraged corruption. But to the hopeful activists of the Women’s Christian Temperance Movement and the…
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Wilmette
Beachy Elegance
The collar-style, beaded necklace encircling Michelle Leonardo’s neck shimmers with the light of more than 720 Swarovski crystals and more than 4,700 individual beads. Another 500 Swarovskis in the matching…
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A Player to Watch
Duke Olges sits in a Northwestern University cafeteria, furtively watching people. The last thing on the 6-foot-5, 275-pounder’s mind is food. Olges—a 2019 New Trier High School graduate and future…
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Good Morning Vietnam
Taking the Army’s offer of officer candidate school was an easy choice at the time for Michael Duffy. Now a Wilmette resident, then he was a draftee making less than…
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Lucy in the Sky
Forget any of the many goals Lucy Murray scored for New Trier High School’s girls lacrosse teams in four seasons. Forget any of her oodles of assists, too. For Trevians…
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Sunday Breakfast: Rachel Wills
Smiling and bright in a periwinkle blue T-shirt and jeans, Rachel Wills looks surprisingly fresh for someone who just finished the grueling 200-mile Dirty Kanza gravel bike race in Kansas…
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Pint-Sized Gardeners
It’s been raining all day, but inside the learning center upstairs at Chalet in Wilmette, a paper plate sunshine smiles down on a group of wiggly children. Gathered in a…
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The Case of the Missing Key
This caper opens like any other whodunit. Officer Engels has misplaced the key to the Gross Point jail cell. Whatever will he do? Find it, of course. But not without…
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Sunday Breakfast: Rick Sweitzer
The day before Wilmette-based PolarExplorers’s 100th polar expedition was to start, founder Rick Sweitzer was feeling the usual mix of anticipatory thrill and hyper-focused sobriety that always precedes his journeys….
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