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LAKE BLUFF — The first pitch of the Lake Bluff Youth Baseball Association

season from Hall of Fame second baseman and former Chicago Cub Ryne Sandberg was a ball.

Just ask Miles Specketer, the 9-year-old Mustang League player who caught it.

“It came in high,” Specketer said. “It was not a strike.”

Sandberg, who recently pur-chased a home in Lake Bluff to be near his children and grand-children, threw out the first pitch during opening ceremonies of the Lake Bluff baseball season April 16 at Weshinskey Field in Artesian Park.

“He wasn’t going to beam it in,” said James Specketer, 11, Miles’ older brother, who plays in the Bronco League and caught the next pitch. “It was pretty awesome.”

Securing Sandberg to throw out the first pitch came shortly after BR Koehnemann, an as-sociation board member and the oldest son of Ryne Sandberg and Margaret Sandberg, said his father would be happy to do it, according to league president Doug Cassidy.

Finding a catcher for Sand-berg was a more competitive process. The honor is auctioned off at a dinner the night before opening day to raise money for

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And it’s probably not a moun-tain lion.

“We are working with a resi-dent that lives near the 1100 block of Beech Lane to deter-mine if the cat captured on the video is his cat,” said Deputy Chief Timothy Wilinski. “The owner is 99 percent sure it is his Savannah cat.”

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11 endangered schools Four Highland Park schools highlighted by Landmarks Illinois.

12 sandberg thrills! Ryne Sandberg stopped by Lake Bluff.

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17 local theater Piven Theatre Presents ‘Dead Man Walking’

18 north shore foodie Lucky Fish Deli is coming to Northbrook.

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23 �houses of the week Intriguing houses for sale in our towns are profiled.

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33 rhythm without the blues Loyola’s resilient Jack Lombardi stepping it up after getting off to a tough star.

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46 sunday breakfast Northbrook’s Max and Benny’s is still on a roll after 30 years.

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HIGHLAND PARK — Four District 112 schools and a lakefront mansion owned by

the City of Evanston made the 2016 list of Most Endangered Historic Places in Illinois, issued by Land-marks Illinois on April 13. The schools are Elm Place, Ravinia, and Lincoln schools and Green Bay Early Childhood Center. The Evan-ston property is the Harley Clarke Mansion.

“The cities of Highland Park and Rockford are both embarking on multiple school closure plans,” stated Landmarks Illinois in its press release announcing the list. “Landmarks Illinois urges the Highland Park and Rockford School districts to engage in comprehensive planning discus-sions with neighborhood residents, local officials and local planning staffs to determine community needs, market conditions and best processes for making soon-to-be vacant school buildings available for reuse.”

Highland Park voters rejected a $198 million referendum in March that would have consolidated several schools. The back-up plan, known as

Budget Deficit Reduction 3, has these four school closings slated for 2017.

D-112 Digital Media Specialist Steven Clay said the district is main-taining the buildings while it consid-ers its next steps. “At no point have any D112 schools been slated for demolition,” he said. “While the Budget Deficit Reduction plan calls for closing these four buildings after the 2016-2017 school year, no further planning for the sale or use of these buildings has been finalized. Each building will receive necessary repairs, over the next year, to keep them in safe working order.“

Historic preservation advocates applauded Landmarks Illinois for placing the schools on the Most Endangered list.

“Buildings that were selected are associated with important architects and/or landscape architects who have received recognition well beyond Highland Park,” said Susan Benja-min, an architecture historian based in Highland Park. “All of these build-ings are worthy of preservation, with careful consideration to their future use. They must not be demolished, but thoughtfully adapted to today.” In addition to running Benjamin

Historic Certifications, LLC, she is a citizen advisor and former first chair of the Highland Park Preserva-tion Commission.

Lisa Temkin, a historic preserva-tion advocate in Highland Park, said three of the schools have been iden-tified in Highland Park Historic Surveys. She also pointed out that that all four are located in residential areas and were a big impetus to de-velopment in the neighborhood.

Ravinia SchoolRavinia School is eligible for

listing in the National Register of Historic Places and a developer for an income-producing reuse, accord-ing to Landmarks Illinois, could utilize the 20% federal historic tax credit.

Landmarks President-CEO Bonnie McDonald said that of the four endangered Highland Park schools, Ravinia School is the most architecturally and historically sig-nificant. Designed by local firm Pond and Pond, the school opened in 1905. Another Pond and Pond-designed, single-story building was added to the campus in 1913.

Between 1927 and 1937, John Van Bergen (with assistance from

Walter Sobel) designed later addi-tions in keeping with the original design, including the main building and the gymnasium, according to Landmarks Illinois.

The school’s lobby features two WPA murals (“Robin Hood”) painted by Mildred Waltrip in 1940. Benjamin said Pond & Pond de-signed the buildings at Hull House, and Van Bergen, a protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright and designer of nu-merous handsome Prairie School homes, has been the subject of books, articles and a recent symposium on his work.

“The design of the school is loosely associated with Tudor archi-tecture, but it is unusual, creatively executed in brick, with gabled wings flanking its arched entrance–imbed-ded in a stately square tower,” said Benjamin.

Ravinia School anchors the Ravinia Business District and is very rich in its history, said Tempkin.

Elm Place Middle SchoolAccording to Landmarks: “Elm

Place Middle School traces its history to 1896 when a two-story, eight-room school building opened on its current site. The Elm Place

campus was expanded many times over the next two decades to accom-modate the school’s growing student body. The Primary Building in 1914 and the Intermediate Building in 1923 joined the original Elm Place school building. William Mann, a respected local architect, designed the Intermediate Building and two subsequent additions. Both the original school and the Primary Building were demolished in 1970. The Intermediate Building survived and was expanded again in the 1970s.”

Green Bay Early Childhood Center

Green Bay school was erected in 1929 as the Green Bay Road School to serve Highland Park’s elementary school children. Raymond Flinn, according to Landmarks Illinois, designed the building. The Tudor school features remarkable wood-work and murals inside. The school’s auditorium also features two WPA murals (“Flora and Fauna”) painted by Gustaf Dalstrom in 1938.

The school’s half timbering, fanci-ful brickwork and stone trim is located in a landscape designed by Jens Jensen, arguably second only to

Frederick Law Olmsted in national significance, said Benjamin. Lincoln Elementary School

Landmarks Illinois chose Lincoln School because its design stands out as an important example of Classical Revival architecture — stately and imposing, according to Landmark’s April 13 announcement.

The school opened in 1909 on the 100th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. The school originally had eight rooms spread over two floors. Addi-tions were undertaken in 1924 by (auditorium and classroom designed by Perkins, Hamilton & Fellows), 1928 (second story expansion by John Van Bergen), 1936 (art, science, and kindergarten classrooms by Van Bergen), 1956 (primary grade class-rooms), and 1999 (cafeteria and classrooms). The architect of the original Classical Revival building is unknown (possibly William Carbys Zimmerman). In 1929, the school installed an outdoor clock (“The Flight of Time”) designed by John Van Bergen. The school also once featured a WPA mural (“Small Chil-dren’s Activities”) painted in 1937, but the mural’s current status and location are unknown, according to Landmarks Illinois.

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the league, according to Wes Wenk, another board member.

The dinner was on April 8 fol-lowed by the traditional pancake breakfast at the Lake Bluff Fire station the following morning, but a snow-covered field prompt-ed the league to move the season opener to April 16.

Rodd Specketer, father of Miles and James, said he and his wife, Sarah Specketer, had to bid several times during the evening of April 8 to stay ahead of others vying for the same opportunity for their children.

“We had to bid again at the pancake breakfast,” Sarah Specketer said. “Somebody had outbid us.”

“I got them to do two pitches,” Rodd Specketer added, assuring both his sons would catch a ball thrown by major league player they had all watched many times before. “They know who he is. We’ve watched a lot of video. We’re big Cub fans.”

There were also a few proud grandparents at the season opener, such as Dick Vie of Lake Forest, grandfather to Miles and James.

“Being a parent has duties and responsibilities,” Vie said. “Being a grandparent is a privilege. You don’t get upset if they don’t catch the ball.”

Cassidy said he played in the league as a child and was coached by his father, also Doug Cassidy. Now the younger Doug Cassidy coaches his sons on LBBA teams — Ryan Cassidy, 13, Michael Cassidy, 11, and Aedan Cassidy, 8.

The opportunity to watch his grandchildren play baseball is one of the things Sandberg said he likes about being in Lake Bluff.

“This setting for youth baseball is as good as it gets,” Sandberg said to the crowd before throwing the pitches. “We have (two grandsons) playing Pinto and two more (grandchildren) on the way by the holidays.”

Not only does Sandberg get to watch his grandsons — Owen Koehnemann, 6, and Nathan Koehnemann, 5 — play in the league but they get to play with him in their yard.

“I like to catch the ball,” Owen Koehnemann said. “I like how it feels to close the glove on the ball. It’s really fun to play catch with (my grandfather).

He challenges me.”For Sandberg, the moment is

part being a grandparent and part traveling down memory lane.

“It takes me back to when I played catch in the backyard with my father and my brothers,” Sand-berg said. “It’s a great feeling to catch the ball, throw it back and see (my grandchildren) catch it. It’s a very simple catch.”

Nathan Koehnemann said he would rather hit the ball than catch it.

“I like batting,” Nathan Koehnemann said. “It’s fun but sometimes it hurts my hands when

it comes in fast.”“It’s better to feel the sting than

nothing at all when you swing,” Sandberg added.

Sandberg, who has rejoined the Cubs as an ambassador getting out in the community and going to games, said this time of year, is special to him whether enjoying baseball at Artesian Park or Wrigley Field.

“The grass is green, the fields are ready to go,” Sandberg said. “You get to see (people) be part of a team and put the new uniform on. That’s what spring means to me. Baseball is America’s pastime.”

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However, it now appears to have been a large pet Savannah cat.

According to Wilinski, the videotaped sighting was in the ravine behind the caller’s house. There was a second sight-ing reported near the railroad crossing near Lake Cook Road.

Wilinski said a cat that “weighs 20 pounds and is 20 inches from the nose to the base of its tail” can easily be mistaken for a more intimidating feline: “The owner has two Savannah cats that he walks on a leash sometimes,” said Wilinski. “He has a GPS tracking device, but it doesn’t show historically where it’s been. The Savannah cat was just out having a nice day.”

Below are some facts about Savannah cats:• The Savannah cat is a hybrid

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the serval, a medium-sized, large-eared, wild African cat.

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• The eyes have a “boomerang” shape, with a hooded brow to protect them from harsh sun-

light. Ideally, black or dark “tear-streak” or “cheetah tear” markings run from the corner of the eyes down the sides of the nose to the whiskers, much like that of a cheetah.

Scott Ballard, natural heritage biologist/herpetologist at Illinois Department of Natural Resourc-es in Carbondale said he’s gone on 20 to 25 sightings and all of them have been dog prints. He explained the difference: “Cats don’t have toenail prints, just dogs.”

He added: “Just because people see the [large animals] they get excited and misidentify them. Most people aren’t biologists. I’ve seen house cats that are 40 pounds. We need clear identifica-tion.”

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Anand Shankar learned to speak German in kindergarten. In middle school, he began to study French. When he started high school at North Shore Country Day School (NSCDS), he added Spanish to his reper-toire. The summer before his senior year, he had an idea that transformed him from student to teacher.

“I couldn’t actually find any resources for young children to learn languages online for free,” Shankar says. “There were re-sources that you could pay for, but there wasn’t a free platform. KIDlingua came about when I decided to create one.”

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With the help of two Spanish teachers from NSCDS, Carmen Gómez Fiegl and Maria Elena Centomo, acting as advisors, Shankar scripted six stories for a young computer animated boy

named Alex. Each story is nar-rated entirely in Spanish talking through several common situa-tions Alex encounters, like Alex Goes to School, Alex and His Dog, or Alex Goes on a Trip. They’re between two and three minutes long and cover a range of vo-cabulary children in elementary school might find most useful in their day-to-day lives. Shankar animated the stories with the help of some friends from the com-munity.

KIDlingua currently has six Spanish language units and the home page announces that they’re currently at work developing German and French units, as well.

“There’s a practical element, you can talk to more people, but there’s also an element where you’re opening a window to someone else’s culture, someone else’s way of thinking, into how another group of people live their

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KIDlingua isn’t the only avenue through which Shankar tries to help people experience the perspectives of others. He’s also the editor of the NSCDS high school newspaper The Diller Street Journal.

“I first joined the school paper in seventh grade,” he says. “It was always interesting to write stories, and it’s always interesting as an editor to see the different per-spectives that different writers bring to the table. When you’re researching an issue, whether it’s a school issue or something in the community, exploring, talking to people who can give you their perspective on the topic at hand is definitely a fascinating process.”Anand Shankar

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Jane Hamilton sighs when she speaks about her first stay at Ragdale, the interdis-

ciplinary artists’ retreat in Lake Forest.

“Ragdale gave me my life,” said the author of seven novels. “I came to Ragdale for the first time in 1983. Especially when I was a young woman, having the space and time to work and being among the other residents made me think that a writing life was possible. I took hope and possibil-ity home, like stardust that lasts for a while.”

She will return to Ragdale later this month for the tenth annual Novel Affair, a two-day event to benefit the not-for-profit orga-nization housed in architect Howard Van Doren Shaw’s former country estate. The event calls together 13 artists to mingle with guests of the Novel Affair over cocktails and dinner at notable homes and venues on the North Shore April 29-30.

“The events cover a variety of the arts — not just authors par-ticipating but also the artistic director from the Goodman Theatre and a couple of people who are doing community-based

work in Chicago — so it should appeal to all people who support the arts and like making per-sonal connections with the artists behind it all,” said event co-chair Jeanna Park, of Lake Forest. “Even among the authors, so many of them have come to writing in different ways that they are a really interesting group of people.”

Hamilton is one of three authors returning to the tenth annual Novel Affair who are credited with the event’s incep-tion. Hamilton, Anne LeClaire and Gail Tsukiyama agree that they never imagined celebrating 10 years of a Novel Affair – but they also wouldn’t miss it for the world.

“We all love Ragdale. I’ve written major parts of eight novels and one memoir there,” said LeClaire, a memoirist, best-selling author, licensed pilot and yoga student.

“Ragdale has been supportive of us all in really, really important ways,” she said. “Ragdale is like a cradle, and describing the time and space don’t begin to cover it.”

Added Tsukiyama, author of seven novels, “It’s never a tremen-dous effort to return to Ragdale

and friends there. It always feels like going home.

“As a founding member of Novel Affair 10 years ago, it provided a perfect venue for artists of all disciplines to give back to Ragdale what Ragdale had provided us: ‘a room of one’s own,’” She continued. “It’s im-portant to see that it continues for the next generation of artists to work in such a beautiful and nurturing environment. The fact that Novel Affair has become an annual event is telling of its im-portance to both the artists and the community.”

Funds raised during the Novel Affair will benefit the artists’ residencies, as well as Ragdale’s outreach programming.

“That is Ragdale’s whole reason for being, as it deserves to be supported,” LeClaire said. “Imagine for a minute that you are sitting with your coffee, but there is no music on the radio, no art on your walls, no book to pick up. The arts define a culture. They reflect who we are and influence life in every way. Places like Ragdale that recognize it and support it are key.”

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Every now and then a front page headline brings the subject of capital punish-

ment into our consciousness with news of a death row inmate freed by DNA evidence or an article about the challenges states face obtaining drugs for lethal injections. We may briefly consider the issue of state-sanctioned execution before turning the page to dig into the latest financial scandal or to check the sports scores. With its current production of Tim Robbins’s play “Dead Man Walking,” Piven Theatre Work-shop puts the issue in front of North Shore audiences in a compelling drama—an explora-

tion of capital punishment that can be appreciated by those on both sides of the issue. If it is one woman’s extraordinary story, it is also a meditation on justice, mercy, humanity, and reconcili-ation—an affecting spiritual drama that does not permit theatergoers to turn the page.

“Dead Man Walking,” di-rected by Mikalina Rabinsky, is an adaptation by Tim Robbins of the national bestselling book by Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun who chronicled her journey as spiri-tual adviser to a death row inmate at Louisiana’s Angola Prison. Robbins also directed the 1995 film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn.

Sister Helen Prejean (Patricia

Lavery) is living and working in an inner-city neighborhood when she begins a correspon-dence with a death row inmate, Matthew Poncelet ( Jay Reed), who has been convicted of the rape and brutal murder of a young couple, Hope Percy (Erica Bittner) and Walter Delacroix (Connor Baty). Poncelet main-tains his innocence, blaming an accomplice, and asks Sister Helen to help him with one last appeal. Uncertain of where this may lead, she visits him in prison and finds an ego-driven, volatile man. She agrees to help him file the appeal. When his execution is ultimately scheduled, Sister Helen becomes his spiritual adviser—the state allows someone to fulfill this role—and she is driven by her belief in Christianity’s teaching that all sin can be forgiven. But she’s tested, as when Poncelet makes a play for her. “Look at you,” she tells him. “Death is looking down your neck and you’re playing little male come-on games.” Her hope is that ulti-mately he will accept responsi-bility for his crimes and experi-ence reconciliation, and her vigil is constant to the end. “I can’t bear the thought that you would die without seeing one loving face. I will be the face of Christ for you,” she assures him.

Sister Helen is forced to con-front not only the agony of the parents of the murdered teenag-

ers—Clyde Percy (Doug Schuetz), Marybeth Percy (Stephanie Monday), and Earl Delacroix (Marc Wilson)—but also that of Matthew Poncelet’s mother (Robin Chaplik). As the play explores the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, it also considers the ambivalence of those charged with carrying out the execution.

Piven’s production extends a conversation begun in Evanston last year with the Block Muse-um’s exhibition “The Last Supper,” a show highlighting the

human dimension of capital punishment with an installation of 600 ceramic plates depicting the last meal requests of death row inmates in the United States. “Dead Man Walking” is the centerpiece of Piven’s Quality of Mercy Project, a three-month public program-ming initiative focusing on the themes of the play: forgiveness, compassion, the death penalty, and social justice. A stipulation of securing the rights to the play, which Robbins makes available to institutions for didactic pur-

poses, is that it not be critically reviewed; that condition is not violated by asserting here that Piven’s committed cast delivers absorbing theatre that addresses a profound and controversial issue worthy of our attention.

“Dead Man Walking” runs through May 15, with perfor-mances Thursday through Sunday (matinees on Sunday) at Piven Theatre Workshop, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes Street, Evanston. For tickets and infor-mation, call 847-866-8049 or visit piventheatre.org.

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NORTHBROOK — Lucky Fish Deli, the latest member of the Once Upon

Family of Restaurants, plans to open a Northbrook location late this spring.

Lucky Fish, which began in Highwood last summer, plans to open its newest eatery at 1349 Shermer Road in Northbrook in late May or early June featuring its own mix of eastern seaboard, Louisiana and Mexican fusion, according to Steve Geffen, one of the owners.

Unlike the Highwood spot, which is located in a redone ware-house behind another Once Upon restaurant, The Mean Wiener, the Northbrook facility is being designed exactly to the specifications of Geffen and his father, Gerry Geffen, the other owner and company founder.

“The seating (for 85) will be built around an open see-through kitchen with a bar along a wall,”

Steve Geffen said. “There will be outdoor seating in the summer. We’ll be able to serve more than 100.”

Though Steve Geffen said the basic menu will be the same at both restaurants, the daily spe-cials will be different at each.

“We have 25 specials we rotate,” Steve Geffen said. “They will be different in Highwood and Northbrook. We want people to come to both.”

The idea for Lucky Fish was born when Highwood Alder-man Eric Falberg told Gerry Geffen the city wanted to see revenue generated out of the warehouse space behind the Mean Wiener, an eatery focused on hot dogs.

“He said we should open a fish restaurant,” Gerry Geffen said. “He said Highwood didn’t have one. So my wife and I took a trip to Maine and ate lobster every day.”

When they returned, Gerry Geffen had an idea of how to

build a menu. Steve Geffen had some other ideas.

“I love New Orleans seafood,” Steve Geffen said. “There is nothing like it in the world. We are a cross between East Coast style, New Orleans style and Mexican. We are a fusion of the three.”

Steve Geffen said two spe-cials recently made permanent items are lobster tacos and surfer enchiladas.

If a customer wants linguini and clams prepared Italian style, they can get that too, according to Executive Chef Fructoso Sandoval. He said a customer wanted linguini with red clam sauce, not the white sauce on the menu, March 26. The person was accommodated.

“I tell the waitress if someone wants something done differ-ently to see me,” Sandoval said. “I made all kinds of accommo-dations. I came out to see the customers and they were happy with it.”

“We hear that all the time,” Gerry Geffen said.

Another key element of Lucky Fish is the freshness of the fish. Steve Geffen said the restaurant can place an order for same-day delivery and receive a delivery of fish that were swimming that morning.

“We get boxes of crawfish and they’re still crawling around,” Steve Geffen said. “Everything is fresh. We don’t use frozen or farm raised. Our fish is caught wild.”

The pursuit of continual fresh fish is a challenge which can create seasonal limitations, ac-cording to Sandoval. He said when Northbrook opens custom-ers can whet their appetite for Copper River Salmon and soft shell crab from Maryland which will be in season then.

Steve Geffen, who lives in Northbrook with his family, said he is particularly excited about bring Lucky Fish to his home-town. He said downtown North-brook is becoming more and more exciting.

“It’s an up and coming town,” Steve Geffen said. “There’s a new generation of folks here and it’s a town where things are happen-ing. Downtown Northbrook is going to be on the map.”

Along with seafood, Sandoval said the Northbrook Lucky Fish will have a surf and turf option.

“We’ll have one or two steaks,” Sandoval said. “They can mix it with their choice of seafood.”

Lucky Fish will be the fourth Once Upon restaurant in North-brook along with Once Upon a Grill, Once Upon a Deli and Once Upon a Café. They are variations of Once Upon a Bagel in Highland Park, which Gerry Geffen opened in 1987 after running Brooklyn Bagel Boys just down street in 1982. There is also a Once Upon a Bagel in Win-netka.

This summer the third gen-eration of Geffens will enter the business, according to Steve Geffen. He said his son, now 14, will begin working in one of the Northbrook spots. Steve Geffen was younger than that when he started helping his father.

“He would get angry when he couldn’t reach the register,” Gerry Geffen said. “It’s wonderful,” he added about his son’s involvement in the business.”

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You wonder, “Why does a goose cross the road?” This is NOT a variation on the old joke. You’re in no mood for jokes. It’s a good question. You’re thinking: man, if you had wings like he does you sure wouldn’t walk.

You’d have already flown to where you’re driving. On the way, you’d have eyeballed the whole North Shore from a bird’s-eye view just for the fun of it. You’d have climbed way up. You’d have soared on the wind. You’d have banked, swooped and power-dived like a fighter jet.

A “honk” behind you. Not a goose. A driver in a car. And the guy’s wondering why you’re not moving. You realize the goose in front of you has waddled to the curb and is off the road. As you hit the gas, you muse about a curious fact of nature...

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40. 2982 Techny Rd.NORTHBROOKSunday, 1-3$990,000Rita Anson, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847-446-4000

41. 1933 Big Oak LaneNORTHBROOKSunday 1-3$379,000Chris Fischer, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage847-772-3206

42. 442 Woodlawn Ave.GLENCOESunday, 12-2$645,000Sue Hertzberg, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847-446-4000

43. 385 Palos Rd.GLENCOESunday, 1-3$1,850,000Jann Tyler, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847-446-4000

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45. 90 Wagner RoadNORTHFIELDSUNDAY 12-2$649,000John Baylor, @properties847.881.0200

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57. 418 Ridge AvenueWINNETKASUNDAY 12-2$1,395,000Beverly Smith, @properties847.881.0200

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59. 456 Elder Ln.WINNETKASunday, 1-3$2,399,900Marina Britva, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847-446-4000

60. 361 Hawthorn Ln.WINNETKASunday, 1-3$1,995,000Kathy Almond, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847-446-4000

61. 368 Birch St.WINNETKASunday, 1-3$1,300,000Ann George, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847-446-4000

62. 388 Chestnut St.WINNETKASunday, 12-2$1,225,000Maryann Burke, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847-446-4000

63. 720 Green Bay Rd. #3CWINNETKASunday, 1-3$765,000The Skirving Team, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847-446-4000

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73. 128 Robsart Rd.KENILWORTHSunday, 1-3$2,795,000Monica Corbett, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847-446-400074. 547 Melrose Ave.KENILWORTHSunday, 1-3$2,795,000Team Van Horn, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847-446-4000

75. 34 BriarGLENVIEW/GOLFSunday 1-3$630,000Jan Shields, Baird & Warner847.446.1855

76. 1021 Pfingsten RoadGLENVIEWSUNDAY 2-4$310,000Vittoria Logli, @properties847.998.0200

77. 604 Long Rd.GLENVIEWSunday, 12-2$349,000Beth Groebe, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847-446-4000

78. 1751 Henley Street, #1SGLENVIEWSUNDAY 1-3$199,000Wendy Thomas, @properties847.509.0200

79. 229 Laurel Ave.WILMETTESunday, 1pm-3pm$899,000Mary Jane Stutz, Baird & Warner847-650-4750

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84. 501 Pinecrest Ln.WILMETTESunday, 12-2$895,000The SFC Team, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847-446-4000

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86. 1140 SheridanWILMETTESunday 1-4$2,299,000Bree Misiak, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.420.1214

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And, as the starting second baseman for the Ramblers, Lom-bardi is all about the hops — es-pecially the groundball kind.

And, right now, the Ramblers are all about rhythm. They have found theirs. They have opened the 2016 campaign by winning 11 of their first 14 games.

“We’re playing it one pitch at a time,” says Lombardi, ready with the quick answer.

The LA senior also was ready for this: answering the same ques-tion that he’s been asked 150,001 times.

See last name. Ask obvious question.

Are you …Lombardi laughs, pauses — and

then offers: “Yes, my grandfather’s name is Vince Lombardi … just not The Vince Lombardi [former legendary football coach for the Green Bay Packers].”

He doesn’t deny that “Lom-bardi” is the perfect name to apply to the back of a jersey.

“I love being a Lombardi,” the Chicago Bears fan says.

He also loves baseball. The exu-berant Lombardi plays the game with a deep fervor. As a team captain, along with fellow senior Liam McKeough, he’s out to win. Having fun is the by-product.

Having tough, trying times is baseball’s other by-product.

And Lombardi just went through a doozy of a slump. He started the season 0-for-7.

Even worse than it sounds: 0 hits in his team’s first 7 games.

“That,” Lombardi says, “takes a toll on you mentally.

“But, you’ve got to put it behind you,” he adds. “You have to just focus on the next at-bat.”

Being a team captain only added to the pressure.

“You feel obligated to do better,” Lombardi says. “[Fortunately], my teammates kept supporting me.”

He had a reversal of fortune in the eighth and ninth games. He went a combined 4-for-7.

“That brought me back,” he says.Now, as the team’s No. 9 hitter,

Lombardi continues to put the ball in play.

In the 8-1 win over host Evan-ston on April 15, Lombardi hit a groundball single to center field in the top of the third inning to score the Ramblers’ first run.

Trailing 1-0 at the time, it was

a textbook tally by LA. Perfect execution. The inning started with catcher Brian Vance singling. And then, pitch-runner Jack O’Malley advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Kyle Mulcrone.

“I was trying to barrel it up and hit the ball right back up the middle,” says Lombardi, who drove in O’Malley. “It gave us a little momentum. And we kicked it in from there.”

To his credit, throughout his rough patch at the plate, Lom-bardi’s defense never slipped. He’s committed just one error in the first 14 games at the keystone po-sition.

In the bottom of the third inning at Evanston, he handled a tough hop on a hard-hit grounder

by Northwestern-bound Charlie Maxwell.

In the team’s 11-1 over host Fenwick on April 14, he finished with nine assists.

“Defense is the best part of my game,” says Lombardi, son of Glenn Lombardi, a former second baseman at Elmhurst College. “I pride myself on playing good defense.”

Lombardi has earned the trust of LA head coach Nick Bridich.

“He was our regular second baseman last year, and he’s gotten a whole lot better,” says Bridich. “He makes the routine plays. And he makes the tough plays.

“He’s just a good hard-nosed baseball player,” Bridich adds. “He goes out there with a plan. He finds

ways to win. And he’s the ultimate team player.”

The Ramblers are built strong up the middle. Vance is solid behind the plate. McKeough and Neil Udelhofen are very good center fielders. And junior Ryan Lin-Peistrup has been a bright spot at shortstop.

“We’ve formed a good relation-ship,” says Lombardi. “Ryan and I are a good matchup. We’re com-fortable with each other.”

“I think our chemistry is unreal,” says Lin-Peistrup, who, like Lom-bardi, plays the game with a lot of verve. “Jack is a hard-working team leader. He’s been a role model for me.”

Baseball might be Lombardi’s passion. But it’s not his only

pastime.Lombardi, who played three

seasons of club baseball with the Homestead Ranchers, also was a member of the Loyola ping pong team for two years.

“I played in a few tournaments,” says Lombardi, noting that Loyola won the state championships — Golden Paddles — in 2015 and 2016. “I found out that there’s a lot of good ping pong players out there.”

He’s careful whom he goes up against.

“[That game] can turn a lot of friends into enemies,” he warns.

Better to turn double plays.

Notable: The Ramblers notched win No. 11 on April 18, when they downed host DePaul College Prep 6-1. Jack Lombardi went 2-for-3 with two RBIs. Thomas Smart had three hits, while Kyle Mulcrone had two hits and drove in a run. David Blankenship continues to be impressive on the mound. The right-hander went the distance on a three-hitter. He had six strike-outs. … Liam McKeough was the winning hurler (5 IP, 4 hits, 4 Ks, 1 ER, 0 BB) in the team’s 8-1 win over Evanston on April 15. Brian Vance (3-for-4, RBI) and Drew Bartholow (2-for-4) led the offense. … On April 14, the Ram-blers took care of host Fenwick 11-1. Kevin Knapp allowed just four hits over six innings to pick up the win. Ryan Lin-Peistrup (4 hits, 3 RBIs) and Will Jackson (2 hits, 2 RBIs) led the attack. … Lombardi (3-for-4, 3 RBIs) and McKeough (2 hits, 2 RBIs) stood out in LA’s 13-4 victory over vis-iting St. Patrick on April 12. … And, on April 11, in a 7-5 victory over host Montini, Blankenship got the win with four innings of relief. Mulcrone hit a solo home run, while McKeough and Bar-tholow had two hits each. … The team’s lone loss in the last seven games was to visiting St. Ignatius 4-2 on April 16. Lin-Peistrup had two hits and one RBI in the setback.

BY KEVIN REITERMAN, [email protected]

RHYTHM ... WITHOUT THE BLUES

Loyola’s resilient Lombardi finding his groove after getting off to a tough start

HE’S GLOVIN’ IT: Jack Lombardi of the Ramblers makes a play at second during earlier action this season against Highland Park. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER

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Scrums happen in lacrosse, not just in rugby. Darby Tingue was in the middle of one in

a game earlier this month, battling and poking and jostling for a loose ball. Tingue, a 5-foot-6 senior middie, and several of her New Trier lacrosse teammates, along with just as many Glenbrook South Titans, had formed a mass of humanity vying for a little ball.

Host NT was up 15-14 at the time of the scrum on April 6, time winding down in the second half.

“There had to be eight girls, maybe 10, going for the 50/50 ball,” Trevians assistant coach Kristen Murray recalls. “Then, after a while, out comes Darby with the ball. She races down the field. We hold the ball, stall. The game ends. It was a pivotal moment in the game.”

It is Game Day for New Trier’s girls lacrosse team. Trevians prepare for a home game in North-field. The players gather in the Wellness Room in a building on the campus. They form a circle, a looser version of a scrum. A friend-lier version. Tingue, a third-year varsity member, is in the middle of it. Again. Tingue dances. Tingue entertains her teammates, all of them.

“I like to mix it up,” Tingue, smiling as hard as she plays la-crosse, says of her dance style.

All you need to know about Darby Tingue, the competitive athlete, occurred on the day she learned how to ride a bike, minus training wheels. Her future New Trier classmate and lacrosse team-mate, Audrey Kingdom, lived nearby. Tingue looked out her window one day and saw Kingdom attempting to control a bike, minus training wheels, for the first time.

“I remember screaming, ‘No way!’ ” Tingue, a 2015 Illinois High School Women’s Lacrosse Asso-ciation all-stater (honorable mention), says. “That needs to be me, too. I went outside and taught myself how to ride a bike. I fell a few times, sure. But I learned to ride a bike that day.”

Tingue and New Trier (6-0), for the most part, have coasted in games this spring. There was that taut game with Glenbrook South. They topped perennial power Hin-sdale Central 11-8 on April 12, Tingue striking for a pair of goals. NT outscored its other four op-

ponents by a combined 66-22. NT, third at the IHSWLA state tour-nament last spring, is ranked second in Illinois by laxpower.com, reigning state runner-up HC (5-6) fourth. The same source rates NT sixth in its Midwest rankings.

If it seems Tingue is savoring every tick of every minute on a lacrosse field this spring, there’s a reason. She might not play com-petitive lacrosse at Miami (Ohio) University, where she intends to major in education, a steppingstone to her dream job of elementary school teacher. Kingdom plans to play lax at the University Colo-rado. They mapped out the distance between the schools. The schools were farther apart (1,189 miles) than either had thought. Tingue and Kingdom became friends when both were about four months old. Was “hi” in either of the tots’ vocabulary then?

“Darby,” Kingdom says, “was the giggliest girl around, with the curliest blonde hair. She laughed at everything.”

She turns serious in lacrosse games. Tingue is fast and quick and versatile, capable of impacting a game at both ends of the field. Her field vision is covetous, her communication skills vital. Tingue’s shot is “wicked,” Kingdom says. Tingue’s grit is dogged. No surprise there. A fan of the outdoors, one of the high-lights of her young life was insert-ing herself into a sleeping bag in Sun Valley, Idaho, rocks serving as the bag’s mattress pad, and admiring a colony of bats flapping above her.

“Tough … she’s tough,” NT head coach Pete Collins says. “Darby also plays with good com-posure. She is steady, smart, the kind of player who says to me, on the sideline, ‘Here’s what I see out there.’ ”

Tingue saw her mother, Robin, for the last time nearly 10 years ago. Illness took her. Darby’s father David, in 2006, established the Robin Sundy Tingue Memo-rial Dance Scholarship at Bucknell University to honor and preserve the memory of the Class of 1987 graduate, a dancer in her days at BU.

“If I’m having a rough day, I think of my mom and I smile right away,” Darby says. “My day gets better. She made everybody

around her smile. She was positive, caring. She had an impact on everybody she knew.”

More than a few of Robin’s qualities are still present today. All you have to do to enjoy one of them is watch what Darby does after she scores a goal in a lacrosse game.

“She jumps straight up, with pointed toes,” Kingdom says. “Darby is always positive on the field, so smiley. Her attitude, on and off the field, is contagious. She gives off such great energy. People want to be around her.”

Darby has an older brother, John, 20, and a little sister, Hayden, 5. Darby’s stepmom is Andrea. Scoring a goal in a big lacrosse game probably ranks right behind spending time, any kind of time, with Hayden in Darby Tingue’s sunny world.

“I love children,” Tingue says.Tingue is asked to imagine her

first day as an elementary teacher. She is game.

“I’d make it a fun day,” she says. “I’d ask them to introduce them-selves to everybody in the class-room, with a little twist. I’d make them say their favorite ice cream flavor after saying their name.

“Second day,” she adds, “maybe give them all some ice cream in the classroom or take them all to Dairy Queen.”

Now there’s a visual, a super-excited Ms. Tingue entering a DQ with at least a dozen super-excit-ed children.

In the middle of it all … once again.

Notable: New Trier sophomore attack Sophia King scored three goals and delivered a pair of assists in a 15-3 defeat of visiting Deer-field High School on April 14. Junior middie Katherine Gjertsen beat the Warriors’ goalkeeper three times in Northfield, and freshman attack Lucy Murray finished with two goals and two assists. The victors’ other scorers: Isabelle Sennett (two goals, assist); Trace Sutherland (two goals); Darby Tingue (goal, two assists); Mary Kate Maloney (goal, assist); and Bridget McConnell (goal). Trev-ians senior middie Audrey Kingdom provided two assists, and classmate Clare Rooney had one. The winning keeper was junior China Trerotola.

BY BILL MCLEAN, [email protected]

GRITTY MIDDIE Tough-minded Tingue not afraid to mix things up — on field, on dance floor

DANDY DARBY: New Trier’s Darby Tingue makes a pass during recent action this spring. Tingue is a returning honorable mention all-stater of the 6-0 Trevians. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER.


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Knowing he was going to face a tough sun in right field, Jason Cast ditched the

shades and went heavy on the eye black.

It was a noticeable departure for the intriguing Lake Forest High School junior.

“Usually, I wear the [sun] glasses,” Cast says.

It was a good look.Right fielder Bryce Harper of

the Washington Nationals is known for his eye black, no doubt, and would have been impressed.

But the greasy stuff couldn’t hide Cast’s caked-on smile.

Or his indisputable talent.You watch the Scouts long

enough — say seven innings — and it becomes apparent that No. 6 has a pretty high upside.

“Your future is so bright you gotta wear shades …”

Could apply here.There’s no miss-Cast-ing this

kid.He certainly is off to a fine

start. The well-put-together 5-foot-11, 180-pound Cast went to the plate at Glenbrook North on April 16 and treated pitched baseballs with utter disdain.

He turned in an eye-catching performance.

In the fourth inning, Cast ripped a double into left center and later raced around to score on a couple of throwing errors.

Then, in the sixth inning, he treated a hanging curve from GBN reliever Jordan Kaplan like it was an enemy of the state. He walloped it over the left-center field fence. Long gone.

“I pretty much knew it was gone, when I hit it,” says Cast.

“A hanging curve. A terrible pitch by me,” says Kaplan. “He [Cast] did what great hitters do with a hanging curve. He hit it out of the park.”

That two-run shot wound up being the difference as Lake Forest held on to beat the Spar-tans 5-3. North fell to 12-3.

To LF head coach Ray Del Fava, Cast’s home run had the sound of … silence.

“You didn’t hear a ping,” says the Scouts coach. “When he squares up on a pitch, you don’t hear much. He’s got quiet power.”

So far, Cast has gone yard twice this spring. In a 5-0 win

over visiting Zion-Benton on April 5, he smashed a three-run homer with the wind blowing in.

He’s got a trend going. Six of his nine hits have gone for extra bases. And he’s amassed seven RBIs in nine games.

“I think the kid is a stud,” says LF’s Cal Coughlin.

Coughlin is a pretty good source when it comes to judging Stud-dom. The senior pitcher/shortstop, who has signed a na-tional letter of intent with Texas Christian University, is ranked as the fifth best player in Illinois by the Prep Baseball Report. He’ll likely be selected in the upcoming

June Free Agent Draft.“Athletically, Jason has every-

thing. He’s got it,” Coughlin says. “Both of his home runs this year came on curve balls. So he’s gen-erating a lot power.

“He’ll miss some pitches,” the teammate adds. “But he makes adjustments. When he hits it, it really goes.”

Cast is getting his name out there. Attracting scouts from four different schools is giving him some traction.

He’s currently ranked No. 149 in class of 2017 by PBR. As time goes by, Cast could shoot up that list.

“He’s just got to get in front of the right people,” says Coughlin.

Cast has a pretty lavish skill set. He’s a pretty toolsy. Besides being able to hit for power, he’s got a strong arm — throws 86 miles per hour off the mound and 88 from the outfield — and good speed — ran the 60 in 6.63 at the Headfirst Showcase in Jupiter, Florida.

And he’s got this: passion for the game.

“He truly loves the game,” says Del Fava, who also coached his brother, Ryan (Class of 2014). “He’s got some goals. He wants to play at the next level.”

Cast is not planning to take anything for granted.

“The game comes pretty easy to me. When I was younger, I might have been a little ahead of other players,” says Cast, who plays his club ball with the Northbrook-based Diamond Dawgz. “But talent only takes you so far.

“My skill set comes naturally, but to get better it takes work,” he adds. “It’s all about the hard work that you put in.”

Cast, as it turns out, is not all business. He’s got that fun side.

His swing might be quiet.But, according to Del Fava,

“he’s not.”You know he’s around. Cast

can be the life of the party.“Yeah, I’m a little crazy,” he

says. “This game is all about having fun. And I love having fun with my teammates.”

Notable: The Scouts have yet to hit their stride. With the win over host Glenbrook North, they snapped a three-game losing streak and improved their overall mark to 4-6. Sophomore left-hander Drew Golde was — sorry about this — golden against the Spartans. He started and picked up the win, allowing no earned runs over 6-plus innings. At one point in the game, he retired 10 straight hitters. “Sometimes, he struggles to throw strikes. Even today, we had someone warming in the bullpen in the first inning because you don’t want to fall too far behind a team as good as Glenbrook North,” said LF head coach Ray Del Fava. “To his credit, he figured it out.” In ad-dition to Jason Cast (double, 2-run home run), Cal Coughlin was LF’s other big hitter. He drove in teammate Caleb Durbin (single, stolen base) in the third inning, when he smashed a double to left field. He missed a home run by less than a foot. … The Scouts had a golden oppor-tunity to beat Stevenson on April 12. But the Patriots rallied for two runs in the bottom of the seventh to win the game 2-1. Coughlin pitched six shutout innings before running into trouble in the seventh. The senior right-hander finished with 12 Ks. Matthew Peterson drove in LF’s lone run … There was another down side to that loss to Steven-son. Junior outfielder Brad Cz-erniejewski sustained a foot injury. After throwing out a runner at the plate, Czerniejew-ski returned to the dugout and was injured while celebrating with teammates. “The guys got a little too exuberant,” said Del Fava. “I’d rather see us a celebrate a win, not a play. But the guys were excited … He’s feeling better. He’ll be back. Fortunate-ly, our conference bye week is next week.” The team’s next North Suburban Conference game will be April 26 at Lake Zurich.

3, 2, 1 … CAST OFF! Talented junior launches another home run in LF’s win over Glenbrook North

GAME FACE: Jason Cast of the Scouts (No. 6) wore plenty of eye black during his team’s win over Glenbrook North. The junior had a double and home run. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER.

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The peer tutor sat in The Learn-ing Center at Highland Park High School three years ago,

awaiting his first one-on-one. Bennett Preskill, math ace, was nervous at first. He had the right to be.

Bennett Preskill was a freshman.A math teacher at the school had

asked Preskill to ease the math concerns of peers at TLC. Enter TLC, exit feeling better. That’s the idea behind the foundation of the center, right?

His first case was an Algebra 2 student, confused and lost and determined to find a solution or two. Preskill introduced himself to the teen. Preskill asked a few simple questions, hoping to figure out what his tutee knew.

The tutor listened.The tutor helped.“I got comfortable as soon as I

realized I knew the material,” Preskill, now a senior and the HPHS math team captain, recalls. “Plus I had helped students in my math classes. It’s rewarding, com-pletely, to work with a student and see that student understand a math concept, experience that ‘aha moment.’ When I tutor, my mind is going, really going. I’ll sometimes say, ‘Now that you know that, here’s something else you’re going to want to know.’

“I can’t stop once I get going.”Preskill exhibits a similar bent

on volleyball courts. The 5-foot-8, 135-pound libero throws himself at shots all over the surface, digging one kill attempt after another. A boy named Preskill blunts kill shots. Fun. One of his eyes absorbed a spiked fastball on the first day of the Lake County Tournament last weekend, blinding him in that eye for three seconds. Not so fun. He played with bumps and bruises and a sore wrist, all taped up, in a trio of three-set matches on the second day of the Lake County Tourna-ment at Grant High School. None of the injuries prevented him from chest surfing at the end of his reaches for digs.

Have body, will sacrifice.For the good of the team.“I’ve asked him, ‘Are you OK?’

Giants volleyball coach Kyle Muldoon says, “He always says, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, I’m fine.’ He’s tough, a leader. He’s taken on that role [of libero] and accepted it. He’s got the mentality for it. Consistent, consistent … Bennett is more con-

sistent than he was last year, getting better and better each week. The last week and a half he’s been great for us, resilient.”

Preskill knows the ins and outs of the libero position as well as he knows the differentiable functions of Rolle’s Theorem in calculus. The libero has to make the crucial pass to his setter. The libero has to get horizontal at times and bump a shot to keep a point alive. The libero is a quarterback and a free safety — sometimes during the same point.

“Get to the ball,” Preskill, a second-year varsity volleyball member and a JV soccer player last fall, says. “That’s the most important thing a libero does. Next, get in the

right position to make the pass. Instincts are important. So is reading the hitters, figuring out where they like to hit the ball. Another huge part of what I do is being vocal. You have to be very vocal to your teammates. You have to almost over-communicate to them. A libero calls out what kind of serve is coming, how best to handle the serve.

“I am also responsible for knowing the strengths and weak-nesses of my teammates.”

Preskill paced Highland Park in digs (34) and aces (four) and barking orders/encouraging words (a big number) at the Lake County Tournament. The Giants (4-10

overall) went 2-3 at the 12-team, two-day tourney, finishing fourth. Preskill notched the first three service points in the third set of HP’s 20-25, 26-24, 25-15 defeat of Carmel Catholic on the morning of April 16. Good tone set. HP would never trail in the decisive set.

Preskill was a defensive special-ist for the first half of his junior season. He got shifted to libero in the second half of 2015, switching jobs with classmate Ryan Chiou, now the Giants’ steady setter. You’d think Preskill, versatile and valuable, has been a club volleyball player ever since he figured out one plus one equals two. You’d be wrong. Preskill does not have time for club

volleyball. His commitments at the school, peer tutoring among them, pull him this way and that way, challenge him, excite him.

“He gives 100 percent, in every-thing he does,” says Giants junior defensive specialist/libero Lucas Humerick, a friend of Preskill since the age of nine. “He’s willing to do anything for the team. Anything. He moves his feet well, knows where to be at all times. Funny; he’s funny, too. One of the nicest kids I know. People like to go up to him and talk.

“Bennett,” he adds, “puts every-body before himself.”

One of Preskill’s older brothers is Jake, 27. He stands 6-foot-3. Jake

played sports, all kinds, as a youth. An impressionable Bennett watched Jake play and contracted the competitive bug. They would play basketball and Wiffle ball and football. Going up against some-body bigger and older did not daunt Bennett.

“Jake got me into sports, moti-vated me,” says Bennett, also the younger brother of Guy, 20, and Isabel, 23. “I tried to be better than Jake when we competed. Tried to keep up with him. I’m not the tallest kid in my family, but I found my sports niche playing volleyball.”

The subjects of math and science have thrilled Bennett Preskill for years. What thrills his parents, David and Nadine? Bennett’s passion for math and science. Bennett likes to point out where his father grew up. He especially likes to do so when he is at home.

“My dad,” he says, “lived in the house next door to our house.”

Real estate is not in Bennett’s future. Math is. Or science. Or industrial engineering.

He bumps volleyballs. He aces classes. He tutors peers. He volun-teers for service projects. There might not be a more balanced student at HPHS than the bright one who extracts “I see” from his tutees.

“My mom likes to say, ‘Life is balance,’ ” Preskill says.

Notable: Highland Park senior outside hitter Dylan Brown led the Giants’ attack (46 kills in five matches) at the Lake County Tour-nament held at Grant and Lakes high schools on April 15-16. Senior middle Frank Schorsch ranked second among teammates in kills (30) and popped for a team-high 10 blocks. Giants seniors Ryan Chiou (76 assists) and Ben Wellek (41 assists) shared setter duties. Junior defensive specialist Lucas Humerick contributed 23 digs. HP (2-3 in the tourney) beat Grayslake North on April 15 and edged Carmel Catholic in three sets on April 16. “Lot of volleyball today,” Giants coach Kyle Muldoon said after his club played three three-set matches on the second day of the Lake Country Tournament. … Brown struck for 10 kills in HP’s 25-21, 25-17 loss to visiting Maine East on April 14. Chiou tossed up 15 assists to go with five digs, and Giants senior libero Bennett Preskill finished with six digs.

BY BILL MCLEAN, [email protected]

GRADE-A PERFORMER With Preskill, Highland Park volleyball team finds THE solution at libero

MAKING AN IMPRES-SION: Bennett Preskill of the Giants focuses on the ball during the team’s recent match against Maine East.. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER.


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SUNDAY BREAKFAST


BY BILL MCLEAN

Lester Schlan sits in a booth in his second home. Or is it his first? The man owns Max

and Benny’s Restaurant-Deli-Bakery in Northbrook. There was a time when he spent 16 hours a day there, seven days a week. Utensils clank plates at tables, at other booths. Breakfast patrons’ intermittent laughter drowns out steady conversations in the spa-cious dining area.

You can’t always hear the stream of coffee entering an empty cup, but when you do, it is the best part of the restaurant’s soundtrack.

Max and Benny’s turned 30 in late December. Schlan is 67. Lester and his wife, Rhea, named the place after their two boys, all grown up now. Max is 35, living in New York and working as an attorney. Benny (he answers to Ben these days) is 32 and essen-tially runs the show at the restau-rant as his father segues into a life with saner work hours. Lester Schlan, a University of Illinois graduate, was a grill cook and a baker and a coffee shop manager in Champaign-Urbana before he opened Max and Benny’s at its first location (Plaza Del Prado, in Glenview) on Dec. 30, 1985.

“I got back from a trip to Arizona not too long ago,” Lester, after ordering an egg white veggie wrap and mixed fruit, says. “I was there for three weeks. Three weeks. I had never been away from the restaurant for that long. I don’t think I’d ever been away for more

than a week.”Family recipes turn first-time

Max and Benny’s customers into repeat Max and Benny’s custom-ers. Schlan’s grandmother, Bubbie Gussie, made kugel and matzo ball soup and other Jewish delica-cies in her kitchen. Schlan saw to it that countless others would get to enjoy the same tasty fare in a public setting. Word of (sated) mouth spread steadily, forcing Schlan to find a bigger home for his restaurant. Max and Benny’s moved to Brookside Plaza (461 Waukegan Road) in Northbrook 22 years ago. The sons grew. The eatery grew, to 8,000 square feet — double the size of its digs in Glenview. It expanded again four years later to accommodate its full bakery and carry-out deli. It employs 90.

“Fresh food, good food,” Schlan, a Northbrook resident, says of the ingredients to his restaurant’s sustained success. “I’m taking care of the Jewish community. You have to care. It’s all about caring about your customers. I drove past this location [Brookside Plaza] a lot when it was empty. It’s a good location because I consider it to be in the middle of the North Shore.”

Schlan takes a sip of coffee, puts his cup down. He then insists I join him for a walk around Max and Benny’s. He shows the Event Room used for large business meetings and gatherings and where North Shore authors discuss their works and conduct

question-and-answer ses-sions. Scott Turow addressed patrons two years ago. A framed black-and-white photograph of Schlan’s father, Julius, adorns an Event Room wall with all kinds of framed family images. Julius died at the age of 93 six years ago.

“My father was a smart businessman, very smart,” says Schlan, who grew up on the

South Side of Chicago and at-tended South Shore High School. “He sold restaurant supplies before World War II, lived on the

West Side. He taught me a lot about the retail business. He also thought I was stupid for going into the restaurant business.”

Schlan takes me back to the kitchen area. Busy cooks and other employees are focused and serious, working efficiently. Schlan, affable sitting and affable walking, says something that makes a cook laugh. Cookies are next. Schlan and I near a batch of yellow smiley-face cookies.

“Still our most popular cookie,” he says in midstride.

I later eye homemade cookies that look exactly like the Indian head on a Chicago Blackhawks sweater. Each is decorated with

at least six colorful icings, four for the headdress

feathers. It is a piece of artwork, too stun-ning to eat. Schlan hands one to me. A gift. Three weeks later it remains uneaten, tucked inside a cello-

phane bag.We return to our

booth. Time for more stories from a master storyteller. Max and Benny’s used to sponsor a softball team for

men 50 and older. “We no longer do that,” Schlan says. “They got too old.” He filled in once for the

team, as a catcher. Went 3-for-3 at the plate. Called it a career. Many decades ago, when Cham-paign-Urbana, pre-Starbucks era, did not have a 24-hour coffee shop for University of Illinois students, an enterprising Schlan opened one

in available space in a deli, charg-ing a quarter for a cup of coffee. He once fell asleep on the job — standing before sunrise, a mop resting in his hands. He and five or six other students ran a business in the basement of a YMCA near the campus. It was called The Record Service. Albums cost $3.

“My colleagues and I paid our-selves $25 per week,” Schlan recalls.

Customers pay Schlan and his Max and Benny’s employees com-pliments. Often. The restaurant’s crack catering department ser-vices parties, shivas, dedications and corporate events, among other occasions. Chicago Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz hosted a party in Winnetka last summer. The Stanley Cup showed up, RSVP unnecessary. The estimated head count at the bash, not counting the Indian head-shaped cookies provided by Max and Benny’s: 2,500.

“We do appreciate the positive feedback we get,” Schlan says. “We receive a lot of it. It’s good to hear. We sometimes get last-minute orders for catered events. We take care of them. People tell us, ‘You saved the day.’ ”

Schlan is the picture of a suc-cessful businessman in his place of business, cheerful and engaging. It is a weekday, late in the morning. Customers, doubling as friends, talk with Schlan, laugh with Schlan. They are no longer hungry. Schlan is satisfied, too.

“I’ve had an American Dream life,” he says.

‘Max and Benny’s’ Still On A Roll

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