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Go: Bahá’í Choir Festival
WILMETTE – Since its start in 2006, the annual Bahá’í House of Worship Choral Festival has attracted singers and sacred music lovers from around the world. Each year 200 or more voices soar in the...
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Sunday Breakfast with Rick Peterson
Rick Peterson takes a break from his dance with cancer to inhale a hearty breakfast at Walker Bros. The Original Pancake House in Wilmette. Leukemia was the diagnosis, back in December. The longtime...
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The Cubs Hat That Could
Abby Wood has brownish-red hair, a red some have called auburn, strawberry blond, or even chestnut. But when she stands in the sun the red sparkles brighter, like the cherry red “C” in the middle of...
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NTHS Senior Receives 2018 Bill Crowley Award
WINNETKA — New Trier High School senior Jaine Archambeau received the eighth annual Wilbert F. Crowley Citizenship Award for exemplary community awareness, involvement, leadership and scholarship. The...
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Jacobs, Baird & Warner Host Gateway Party
The Jacobs Companies and Baird & Warner will host a Gateway pre-sale launch party in Highland Park, with an exclusive preview of luxury town homes and row houses. The launch party pre-sale event is...
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Wilmette Theatre Welcomes Cold Case Solver &…
Jenniffer Weigel welcomes author of American Psychic, cold-solver and psychic Marla Frees, for her series “Conversations With Weigel: A Series Exploring Spiritual Enlightenment,” at the Wilmette...
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Bit Space Offers Kids Open-ended Opportunities
One of the mantras of Bit Space, a makerspace in downtown Wilmette that just celebrated its first year, is “if you make it you can take it.” That’s because the kid-focused makerspace is truly about...
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Loyola Dedicates Aquatic Center to Norcross
Loyola Academy dedicated its soon-to-be constructed aquatic center to the memory of former swimming, diving and water polo team member John D. Norcross, Class of ’54, to honor his love of Loyola...
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Your Guide to the Fireworks!
The North Shore always celebrates in style, and the Fourth of July is no exception. Events aren’t exclusive to parades and fireworks, with full schedules of activities before and after the traditional...
View ArticleSustainable Yard Tour Planned in Wilmette
WILMETTE – Go Green Wilmette invites the community to view creative and beautifully practical gardens that can both improve the local environment and solve some perennial headaches for homeowners....
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North Shore to Catch The Dying of the Light
Robert Goolrick, #1 New York Times best-selling author of A Reliable Wife, will be the next author to be celebrated at this season’s BOOKS ‘n’ BOTTLES series in exclusive Chicagoland appearances at the...
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Meet Mrs. Maisel’s Marvelous Mentor
When Carole Dibo, founder of Actors Training Center (ATC) in Wilmette, first heard that her client Rachel Brosnahan was auditioning for the role of a 1950s stand-up comedienne in the Amazon series...
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Business Tips from Wilmette Entrepreneur
Wilmette resident Danny Schuman felt despair when he lost his job in advertising on December 1, 2008 — what he says was statistically the worst day in 75 years to lose a job. But what began as a career...
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Lifestyles of the North Shore
RON LAPAGE, SUSAN LONNETT, LEANITA RAGLAND-BROOKS Photography by Robin Subar Guests from along the North Shore toured five spectacular homes during The Winnetka Club’s Lifestyles of the North Shore...
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Designer Kitchens of the North Shore
LYNNE HEMMER, KATHRYN MANGEL, L.J. SAVARIE, CHRISTINE YACCINO Photography by Larry Miller The Junior League of Evanston-North Shore (JLE-NS) welcomed more than 500 attendees during its widely popular...
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Boos draws applause
Loyola Academy football fans eager to catch senior wideout’s Act II on varsity The double burger at Culver’s tasted great, hit the spot. Loyola Academy senior-to-be and Glenview resident Rory Boos had...
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Check Out the Librarian’s Book
Wilmette Public Library Youth Services librarian Lisa Bigelow began writing her second book more than a decade ago. This summer, when Drum Roll, Please finally came out, audiences were ready for a...
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Cooking Maven Owns Recipe for Vibrant Writing
Mary Jo McMillin knew she wanted to work in a commercial kitchen. She wrote letters to professionals in the industry, hoping the words would sing her passion for cooking and thereby move each reader....
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Working the ‘Night’ shift
Author Jessica Hopper PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL PINCKNEY Like Carl Sandburg, Nelson Algren and Gwendolyn Brooks, the Chicago writers Jessica Hopper references in her new memoir, Night Moves (University of...
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Dishing and Scoring
FOLLOW THE LEIDER: Loyola Academy senior forward Collin Leider prepares to strike the ball in LA’s 5-0 defeat of visiting Brother Rice last week. He is a fourth-year varsity starter and earned...
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