Antiques & Garden Fair Preview Evening
Regarded the North Shore over as a sure sign of spring, more than 700 attended the Antiques & Garden Fair Preview Evening at the Chicago Botanic Garden last April. Enjoying…
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Geoffrey Baer
When away from his desk at WTTW in the 1990s, Geoffrey Baer served as a docent for the Chicago Architecture Foundation, presenting architectural history tours on the river. Oftentimes, once…
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Turow takes law into own hands
Imagine being a best-selling novelist for more than a quarter of a century. Then, at age 65, you’re handed one of your earliest undertakings as a writer — that…
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Ragdale’s Best Seller
Ragdale’s “A Novel Affair” entertained guests from the North Shore and Chicago with a stellar line-up of best-selling authors and acclaimed artists and architects at the two-evening benefit on September…
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This magazine was often quite Kurt
A generation ago, in the land before the Internet, a national magazine existed that skewered the powerful in words and photos. Donald Trump, for one, fired off regular letters of…
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Children’s Home + Aid Boutique
The Children’s Home + Aid Women’s Board hosted its annual Holiday Boutique on October 16 at Glen View Club in Golf. Nearly 100 women gathered to shop for all sorts of gifts and food items for Halloween, Thanksgiving and the winter holidays.
Rauner Means Business
A few years ago, venture capitalist Bruce Rauner listened as executives at a company he invested in complained about high taxes in Illinois and how hard it is to recruit…
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From ‘Barbarians’ to fantasy baseball …
Reached by phone at his New Jersey home on a recent morning, Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough is — not surprisingly — writing. Perhaps it’s a profile of a…
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A prose pro
When Rich Cohen graduated from Tulane University in 1990, he sent a blind resume to The New Yorker. To his surprise, a woman asked him to interview for the typing…
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Amdur has festivals down to a fine art
When Amy Amdur, all of six years old, exhibited her works at an art show in Highland Park, she was offered $25 for a painting — a fortune to a child.
