Wilmette

Beer Wars

by DNS Contributor • July 31, 2019
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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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Beachy Elegance

by Monica Kass Rogers • July 22, 2019
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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

by Bill McLean • July 19, 2019
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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

by David Rutter • July 1, 2019
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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

by Bill McLean • June 27, 2019
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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

by Monica Kass Rogers • June 26, 2019
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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

by Monica Kass Rogers • June 24, 2019
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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

by Jen Shea • June 19, 2019
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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

by Monica Kass Rogers • May 30, 2019
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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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Napolita

by Jake Jarvi • May 21, 2019
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Several items on Napolita’s menu carry the designation D.O.P. or Denominazione di Origine Protetta. It’s a certification that ensures ingredients were grown by Italian farmers using traditional methods. It’s a…
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