Top Props
Carole Dibo, founder of Actors Training Center (ATC) of Wilmette, took to the stage on August 24 to accept Illinois Theatre Association’s (ITA) 2019 Award of Honor “It is true…
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Bright Futures
The strides that Rush University System for Health (RUSH) has made over the last seven decades to improve health care throughout Chicago are beyond impressive. Since 1948, the academic health…
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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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