It’s a busy morning at the Colbert family’s Hinsdale household. Ten-year-old Nina scampers down the stairs with Gavin, 7, close behind, eager to show off the new toy top he…
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Banana Pudding with Homemade Vanilla Wafers
This is comfort, pure and simple. Smooth and creamy vanilla pudding, fresh sliced bananas, crisp little vanilla wafers, and a dollop of whipped cream. Perfection. When I was little, we…
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Classic Veal Stroganoff
When Count Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganov wasn’t busy commanding the Russian infantry in Napoleonic Wars, he feasted at home. Historians suggest that an early version of the stroganoff the world came…
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Toward Equity
Steve Pemberton looks good in blue. It matches his eyes, a shade of cerulean quite like the sea waters off the coast of Portugal where some of his ancestors originated….
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Game On
When Lisa Kahley left her job as an account supervisor for global advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather to raise two children at home in Clarendon Hills, she was ready for…
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Safe House
She remembers the day clearly. Sitting in a meeting in an Evanston office, clinical psychologist Cassandra Ma heard the voices drone on, discussing, dissecting, debating, and rebutting theories on why…
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Good Vibrations
With pillows stuffed in the window wells and the black lights on, the practice and studio space in the basement of Colin Ratcliff’s Hinsdale home is awash in magenta and…
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Love Story
As childhood-sweetheart stories go, the tale of former Chicago Blackhawks winger Eric Daze and his wife Guylaine is a charmer. There were matchmaking mishaps, extended absences filled with letters and…
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Go Outside Your Element
Building on the past to make a better future often requires moving outside the box. Now on the cusp of its 70th anniversary, the Hinsdale Junior Woman’s Club (HJWC) has done…
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Fly The Coop
“Watch the door now, Gracie will run out as soon as you open it,” says Annie Tandy, as we stand in her Western Springs backyard. “She’s always the first one…
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