If you could view a recent time-lapse film of the shops along Lincoln Avenue in downtown Winnetka, you’d witness a pleasing transformation. You’d see the dark-timbers-on-white Tudor buildings soften to…
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Keeping Kids Together
There are currently more than 600,000 children in the United States foster care system. Of those children, more than three quarters have been separated from their siblings, to be reunited…
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Chocolate Worth Its Weight In Gold
Jerry Toth and Carl Schweizer make the world’s most expensive chocolate. At $355 per 50-gram bar, it’s very nearly worth its weight in gold. Wrapped and overwrapped in layers of…
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The Comeback Camp
Simran and Millan, wiggly and smiling as any 7 and 8 year olds just in from the outdoors, are especially animated right now. They’re telling Camp Kesem stories: The time…
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Of Ski Slopes, Beach Vistas, and Dreamscapes
The first time I saw a Joshua Jensen-Nagle photograph was at my friend Valeria’s house in Milan. It was an Italian beach scene, the bright dots of beach umbrellas and…
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On Henry, Hockey and Finding The Cure
Ask Henry Hoffmann about hockey. Just do it. He’ll tell you about the Blackhawk’s Patrick Kane “who I know a lot of people look up to, but, I do, because,…
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Fundamental Commonalities
Anne Hayden Stevens surveys the back wall of her Wilmette home studio, head cocked to one side and eyes intent, exactly matching the blue in the painting we just pinned…
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Strategic Philanthropy
When the stage lights go up on Hubbard Street Dance Company’s performance of a new work by international choreography phenom Crystal Pite this December, the tall, slender blonde watching with…
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