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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21 | SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22 2015 FIND US ONLINE: DailyNorthShore.com Glenview | Northbrook ECRWSS LOCAL POSTAL CUSTOMER PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 91 HIGHLAND PK, IL NO. 58 | A JWC MEDIA PUBLICATION FOLLOW US: ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY BLITT REAL ESTATE Check out our special real estate section. P22 NEWS Continued on PG 12 BY SCOTT HOLLERAN O n November 18, 1901, the farm town made by German immigrants was incorporated as Shermerville, Il- linois. Long before that, it was Indian territory. Years later, it would become Northbrook, home to great athletes, a racehorse, paved roads, an upscale shopping center, Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and a water treatment company started by a man named Emmett Culligan. In its early days, Shermerville earned a reputation for partying amid heavy drinking in several saloons. “People from [Chicago] would get on the train and come here to party and they would sleep in Shermerville’s parks,” explained Judy Hughes, president of the Northbrook Historical Society and History Museum. To mitigate the bad reputation, the town changed its name to Northbrook in 1923. By then, its history—chiefly made by the Sherman family and an immigrant named Schermer— was cast. Northbrook resident Hughes, who served on the school board and co-wrote Northbrook, Illinois: the Fabric of our History and Arcadia Publishing’s North- brook volume, tells the tale like she’s told it a thousand times. “Until the 1950s, we were a very small, rural town,” she said. “In 1920, there were 545 people in town. By 1940, there were 1,000 and there were still farm fields in 1962 when I moved here. I think a lot of the same qualities are still here. Northbrook has people from all over—there are quite a few observant Moslems, which had more of a Bosnian congregation when it was founded, and the population has certainly aged.” Allstate retains a large center in unincorporated Northbrook and UL, founded as a product testing center in 1894, is one of the town’s largest employers. e Culligan water company estab- lished by Emmett Culligan and his brothers, headquartered in Northbrook for 71 years, moved to Rosemont years ago. e farm town on Chicago’s outskirts, with its groves, railroads and, later, an expressway, is an early part of northern Illinois progress. “Shermer Road used to be called Telegraph and it went all the way up through Deerfield,” Hughes said, noting that North- brook used to have more paved roads per square mile than any other town in Illinois. “ere was a good roads celebration on August 25, 1925, on the very first Northbrook Days. ere were about 2,000 cars [on Waukegan Road].” Enthusiasm for being the best fits the town’s heritage, which began in earnest after an Indian treaty opened the area for land grants. “e first settlers probably jumped the land grant in the late 1830s or early 1840s,” Hughes said. Some were land speculators, according to Hughes. Among Northbrook’s pioneers: the Sher- mans of Newtown, Connecticut. ere were several generations; grandfather Ezra, his son Silas Wooster Sherman, who became sheriff and laid out Milwaukee Avenue, which he made more than a wagon trail, his brother Francis Sherman, who became the owner of a Chicago brickyard and, later, mayor of Chicago. Francis Sherman also created one of Chicago’s top hotels, the Sherman House hotel, demol- ished in 1973 (where the James SOWING THE SEEDS OF SHERMERVILLE Chuck Schwall. BY BILL MCLEAN I t was the talk of the restaurant, Lovells of Lake Forest, for 16 years. An immense, magnificent 20-by-8-foot mural rested above and behind the main bar, greeting each patron, starting an instant conversation. It is dubbed, “e Steeds of Apollo.” e 1970 Apollo 13 mission crew patch was patterned after the mural, created by artist Lumen Martin Winter in 1969. e mural depicts several horses in flight, their legs in various stages of gallop high above Earth. “We threw the original plans for the building in the garbage can,” chef Jay Lovell, son of Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, recalls. “e original wouldn’t have been big enough for the mural, so we started over. e ceiling had to be three feet higher. Continued on PG 12 Lovell Restaurant Mural Finds New Home SPORTS omas Smart comes up big in Loyola Academy’s state quarterfinal win. P28 SUNDAY BREAKFAST One man’s journey from opera tenor to restauranteur. P30
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21 | SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22 2015 FIND US ONLINE: DailyNorthShore.com
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NEWS
Continued on PG 12
BY SCOTT HOLLERAN
On November 18, 1901, the farm town made by German immigrants was
incorporated as Shermerville, Il-linois.
Long before that, it was Indian territory. Years later, it would become Northbrook, home to great athletes, a racehorse, paved roads, an upscale shopping center, Underwriters Laboratories (UL) and a water treatment company started by a man named Emmett Culligan.
In its early days, Shermerville earned a reputation for partying amid heavy drinking in several saloons.
“People from [Chicago] would get on the train and come here to party and they would sleep in Shermerville’s parks,” explained Judy Hughes, president of the Northbrook Historical Society and History Museum. To mitigate the bad reputation, the town changed its name to Northbrook in 1923.
By then, its history—chiefly made by the Sherman family and an immigrant named Schermer—was cast. Northbrook resident Hughes, who served on the school board and co-wrote Northbrook, Illinois: the Fabric of our History and Arcadia Publishing’s North-brook volume, tells the tale like she’s told it a thousand times.
“Until the 1950s, we were a very small, rural town,” she said. “In 1920, there were 545 people in town. By 1940, there were 1,000 and there were still farm fields in 1962 when I moved here. I think a lot of the same qualities are still here. Northbrook has people from all over—there are quite a few observant Moslems, which had more of a Bosnian congregation when it was founded, and the population has certainly aged.”
Allstate retains a large center in unincorporated Northbrook and UL, founded as a product testing center in 1894, is one of the town’s largest employers. The Culligan water company estab-
lished by Emmett Culligan and his brothers, headquartered in Northbrook for 71 years, moved to Rosemont years ago.
The farm town on Chicago’s outskirts, with its groves, railroads and, later, an expressway, is an early part of northern Illinois progress.
“Shermer Road used to be called Telegraph and it went all the way up through Deerfield,” Hughes said, noting that North-brook used to have more paved roads per square mile than any other town in Illinois. “There was a good roads celebration on August 25, 1925, on the very first Northbrook Days. There were about 2,000 cars [on Waukegan Road].”
Enthusiasm for being the best fits the town’s heritage, which began in earnest after an Indian treaty opened the area for land grants. “The first settlers probably jumped the land grant in the late 1830s or early 1840s,” Hughes said.
Some were land speculators,
according to Hughes. Among Northbrook’s pioneers: the Sher-mans of Newtown, Connecticut.
There were several generations; grandfather Ezra, his son Silas Wooster Sherman, who became sheriff and laid out Milwaukee Avenue, which he made more than a wagon trail, his brother
Francis Sherman, who became the owner of a Chicago brickyard and, later, mayor of Chicago. Francis Sherman also created one of Chicago’s top hotels, the Sherman House hotel, demol-ished in 1973 (where the James
SOWING THE SEEDS OF SHERMERVILLE
Chuck Schwall.
BY BILL MCLEAN
It was the talk of the restaurant, Lovells of Lake Forest, for 16 years. An immense, magnificent
20-by-8-foot mural rested above and behind the main bar, greeting each patron, starting an instant conversation. It is dubbed, “The Steeds of Apollo.”
The 1970 Apollo 13 mission crew patch was patterned after the mural, created by artist Lumen Martin Winter in 1969. The mural depicts several horses in flight, their legs in various stages of gallop high above Earth.
“We threw the original plans for the building in the garbage can,” chef Jay Lovell, son of Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, recalls. “The original wouldn’t have been big enough for the mural, so we started over. The ceiling had to be three feet higher.
Continued on PG 12
Lovell Restaurant Mural Finds New Home
SPORTSThomas Smart comes up big in Loyola Academy’s state quarterfinal win. P28
SUNDAY BREAKFASTOne man’s journey from opera tenor to restauranteur. P30
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INDEX
[ NEWS ]
10 watch the speed Glenview police plan crackdown on speeding.
12 sowing the seeds of shermerville A look at Northbrook’s history.
[LIFESTYLE & ARTS ]
15 love and marriage The secret to a happy marriage.
16 north shore foodie Light, healthy and tasty food from Dr. Andrew Weil.
17 north shorts The force is with her.
[ REAL ESTATE ]
22 ��open houses Find out — complete with map — what houses you can walk through for possible purchase on the North Shore on Sunday.
23 �houses of the week Intriguing houses for sale in our towns are profiled.
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25 record setter Glenbrook North’s Emily Clesen sets a school record in the 100 backstroke at a sectional meet in Northbrook on Nov. 14.
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G LENVIEW — The village and Glenview Police De-partment are stepping up
efforts to curb speeding after seeing concerns raised by residents in the 2015 Citizen Survey.
The survey was conducted in the spring by mail, phone and online to 678 randomly selected households, surpassing the orig-inal goal of 500. The survey set out to assess residents’ satisfaction with village services and help determine priorities for the com-munity.
From the survey, the village found that enforcement of local codes and ordinances, visibility of police in commercial and retail areas and enforcement of traffic laws are specific areas that resi-dents would like to see improved. The village has created an anti-speeding program, with its major
tenants being education, enforce-ment and engineering.
Residents also said flood pre-vention, crime prevention and a balanced village budget are the top priorities that should “receive the most emphasis” over the next two years, according to the survey.
“Right now education is number one, advising people (on the speed limits.) We don’t like to write tickets, but we have to,” said Sgt. Humberto Sanchez, the head of the Traffic Division. “And when we don’t have to write tickets it’s a great thing. Because no one is getting hurt.”
Sanchez said he wasn’t sur-prised with the results from the survey. Previously, the department has been short on police officers. And because of this, he said it’s been hard to station police officers at specific traffic hotspots for a long time, as they might need to leave the area to assist with a call or more immediate situation.
There are currently three traffic officers and eight officers who cover zones or areas that are con-sidered speeding hot spots.
The department is trying to create an “omnipresence,” Sanchez added. The goal is to create a feeling of officers being on every street, even if it’s only for 30-45 minutes at a time. He added that patrol officers will be out more during rush hour and writing more tickets.
“Warnings don’t seem to work,” Sanchez said. “You have to write tickets to scare people.”
Residents seeing police officers actively writing tickets in hot spots can be an effective method to curb speeding, he added.
Police officers have found that drivers don’t realize that the speed limit is 20 mph on side streets in Glenview, Sanchez said. The city has created signs for residents to put in their yard, with the hopes it will educate drivers and make
them slow down, especially since there aren’t speed limit signs on every street, he said.
“It’s our town, please slow down signs” and the correct speed limit is written on the sign. Signs are available through the Village Manager’s office.
The police department will also continue to use the speed boards and mobile speed cars, which indicate how fast specific cars are going. It’s a nice technique, Sanchez said, because often times, people don’t realize how fast they’re driving. He added that it can also scare drivers into slowing down because some think they are cameras.
But the department’s overarch-ing goal from the 2015 Citizens Survey is to increase the general police presence in the commu-nity, specifically around local businesses, Sanchez said.
“We want to be a physical pres-ence, not only by car but on foot,”
he said. “We want officers to be saying hello (to residents) and show that we’re here.”
Here are areas listed as speed-ing hot spots by Glenview police:
• 700 block Valor Drive• Laramie Avenue at Wilmette
Avenue• Shermer and Central roads• Surrey Lane between
Golfview Lane and Central Parkway
• East Lake Avenue from Waukegan Road to Edens Expressway
• 1000 block Hunter Road• 3700 block Winnetka Road• 2200 block Dewes Street• Larch Avenue between
Magnolia and Maple streets• McArthur Drive, Colfax
Avenue and Harrison Street from Shermer Road to Harlem Avenue
• Colfax Avenue/Neva Avenue
GLENVIEW POLICE TO CRACKDOWN ON SPEEDERS
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12 | SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21 | SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22 2015 THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Thompson Center exists). The Shermans bought a thou-
sand acres and settled in North-field Township.
Francis moved to Chicago and kept property in Northbrook as a summer home. Silas later ventured to Chocolate Bayou, Texas, to buy more land. Hughes said that’s where Silas died.
But Silas Sherman’s son, Joel Sterling Sherman, stayed in what’s now Northbrook and worked the
land with his brother, Ezra (named after his grandfather). Eventually, Hughes said, Ezra, too, left North-brook.
This marks a turning point—from the predominant Shermans, who were English, to German Frederick Schermer, to whom Ezra Sherman sold his property. Schermer (1817-1901), who was born in Altenhagen, Hessen in Germany, was 29 years old when he came to America with his sister and her husband.
“Germans tended to come in groups,” Hughes explained. “They were Lutherans. Frederick Schermer was an immigrant farmer who married several times. He did not have children until he was quite elderly and, then, he had two children with his last wife.”
Being what some might de-scribe as indiscriminately generous with the Lutheran church and his stepchildren, whom he helped to raise, he lost his wealth. After a farm depression in the 1870s-1880s, Schermer lost his home—but not before having an impact on the town’s future.
Amid the economic instability, Schermer, who later dropped the ‘c’ in his last name, bought what’s now Northbrook’s Village Green and, though Hughes hasn’t been able to locate the deed, she believes that he may have donated the land on which the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad built the town’s first train station—a milestone for Northbrook as a future source of transportation, growth and prog-ress.
Schermer died in Bensenville
when he was 84. He’d had three wives, was twice widowed and died just before the new town was named for him. He is buried in St. Peter’s Cemetery on Shermer Road, where the wives—Justine, Dorothea and Adelheide—are also buried.
Northbrook’s growth continued with recognition of its origins—18 Northbrook streets are named for 18 of the original farmer-found-ers—and newcomers followed. Jews came north after the Chicago fire of 1871, opening a congrega-tion. The non-denominational Hope Union Church followed. Moslems opened a mosque in 1976—the year that the modern, new shopping center Northbrook Court opened.
Artists and athletes came to Northbrook, too, from Cubs’ shortstop Don Kessinger and hockey legend Bobby Orr, who once played on the Blackhawks, to director John Hughes (no rela-tion) whose Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is the stuff of local legend. Famous athletic residents include the Bears’ Jim McMahon, who owned a palatial Northbrook home, and the Bulls’ Michael Jordan, who lived in a Northbrook condo early in his career.
At one time, Judy Hughes said, Northbrook was a top training center for speedskating, with Olympic bronze, silver and gold medal winners—six 1972 medal-ists trained in Northbrook—and Hughes said that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld lived in Northbrook. Glenbrook North High School’s William A. Edel-
stein was on General Electric’s team that developed Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) tech-nology.
High achievers fit Northbrook’s model for driving advancement based upon thinking ahead.
“Most people don’t know that we are the only community off-shore that draws its water from Lake Michigan, which is how Northbrook [was able to] grow,” Hughes observed. “Our leaders had been buying their water from Glencoe and their capacity was too small. Prices kept rising, so Northbrook decided to build our own water plant, getting rights
from the North Shore Congrega-tion of Israel to go out into Lake Michigan and go underneath the lake and the Edens Expressway.
“They got a little piece of land and went under the highway to the new water plant, which has served the community since 1963. Bert Pollak was the village presi-dent—he was a volunteer and an attorney—and they built this plant which allows Northbrook to control how we grow.”
Being a self-determined cross-roads has made for notable stop-overs, contrasting the days when saloon drinkers slumbered in town parks. Some VIPs, such as Bill
Clinton, who visited Northbrook as president of the United States, stayed for a short time. A few, such as Jordan, Kessinger and McMahon, stayed a bit longer and then moved on. One—a lightning fast harness racehorse named Greyhound—attracted instant, global attention.
“Col. Edward Baker, who had a big horse farm in St. Charles, had [the 485-acre] Baker’s Acres here in Northbrook [at Sanders and Willow Roads], where the world famous trotter Greyhound lived in the stables,” Hughes said. “Visitors came from all over the world to see him.”
SOWING SEEDS Cont. from PG 1
Northbrook’s
growth
continued with
recognition of
its origins—18
Northbrook
streets are
named for 18
of the original
farmer-
founders—and
newcomers
followed.
“It’s beautiful, striking … huge, big, prominent,” he adds. “The mural was the focal point of the restaurant. It was all you saw as soon as you entered the restau-rant. My wait staff was well-versed in the history of the mural, always ready to talk about it, always prepared to answer questions about it. Horse people appreciated it. People posed for pictures in front of it.”
Jay Lovell was an artist in his pre-chef and pre-restaurateur years, a handler of palettes before heeding the call to sate palates. The Lake Forest resident pro-duced paintings, some oil, some watercolor. He dabbled in graphics. He sculpted. The chef formerly known as the artist recognized the pull of “The Steeds of Apollo” from the moment he welcomed his first diner at Lovells of Lake Forest.
Appreciated it, too.The restaurant closed in April.
The mural needed a new home.“I couldn’t take it home,” Jim
Lovell, 87, says, laughing.It now rests in the lobby of
the James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago. Jim Lovell donated it to the center. It was mounted in the time for the fifth anniver-sary of the facility, on Oct. 1. The mural continues to start instant conversations.
“It’s in a really good place,” says Jay Lovell, co-owner (with his wife, Darice), of Jay Lovell’s Fresh Homemade Seasonal res-taurant in Highwood. “It will be there for many, many years. Forever, I hope.”
The mural’s backstory is a captivating one, part serendipi-tous, part Hollywood. Jim Lovell and his Apollo 13 crew mates, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise, were staying at the St. Regis Hotel in New York, in 1969, when they first got an eyeful of the mural. They asked Winter to create an insignia from the
theme of “The Steeds of Apollo” artwork for their mission. Em-broidered along the top of the patch is “Apollo XIII”; “Ex
Luna, Scientia” (Latin for, “From the Moon, Knowledge”) is fea-tured near the bottom of it.
The St. Regis Hotel was re-
furbished. The mural was removed. Decades later, in the 1990s, Jim Lovell happened to be looking at an auction catalog.
Up for sale, at an auction in Santa Monica, California: that St. Regis Hotel mural.
Lovell informed actor Tom Hanks, who knew all about the mural. Hanks had portrayed Lovell in Apollo 13, the movie, directed by Ron Howard, about the perilous journey around the moon. Hanks then had his wife, Rita Wilson, and her mother attend the auction. The women bought the mural.
Hanks, aware Lovell and his family were about to open a restaurant in Lake Forest, had the mural shipped to an art warehouse in Chicago. Hanks contacted Lovell, unaware of what the actor had purchased and arranged. Lovell entered the art warehouse. There it was, a 20-by-8-foot gift, a familiar, spectacular sight for eyes be-longing to the man who was the first person to fly in space four times.
The former astronaut was over the moon. On Earth.
LOVELL Cont. from PG 1
Darice and Jay Lovell, with “The Steeds of Apollo” by Luman Winter. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JIM PRISHING.
THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21 | SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22 2015 | 13
NEWS
Eye bag removal with no visible incision is just one of the cosmetic procedures performed at the skillful hand of Dr. Anthony Geroulis. Dr. Geroulis is an artistic/sculptor and thus considers each patient’s face an art form.
Known as ‘the surgeon who teaches surgeons’, Dr. Geroulis, a clinical professor of surgery at the University of Chicago hospitals, is nationally recognized as a ‘Top Doctor’ in U.S. News & World Report. His North Shore Center for Cosmetic Surgery is a state-of-the-art surgical facility.
Dr. Geroulis performs facial plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures that provide longer lasting, natural looking results. His unique methods dramatically shorten a patients’ recovery time.
Cosmetic procedures include upper and lower eyelid enhancement, forehead/brow lift, face and neck lift, lip and nose enhancement and laser wrinkle reduction.
Call or email to schedule a consultation today. Let Dr. Geroulis restore the youth that still lives within you!
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Dr. Anthony Geroulis Email: [email protected]: 847.441.4441 www.geroulis.com
North Shore:North Shore Center for Cosmetic Surgery330 West Frontage Rd.Northfield, IL 60093
Downtown:Olympia Center (Neiman Marcus Building)737 North Michigan Ave., Suite 1045Chicago, IL 60611
Northwest:St. Alexius Medical Center1555 Barrington Road, Suite 3350Doctor’s Building ThreeHoffman Estates, IL 60169
Eye bag removal with no visible incision is just one of the cosmetic procedures performed at the skillful hand of Dr. Anthony Geroulis. Dr. Geroulis is an artistic/sculptor and thus considers each patient’s face an art form.
Known as ‘the surgeon who teaches surgeons’, Dr. Geroulis, a clinical professor of surgery at the University of Chicago hospitals, is nationally recognized as a ‘Top Doctor’ in U.S. News & World Report. His North Shore Center for Cosmetic Surgery is a state-of-the-art surgical facility.
Dr. Geroulis performs facial plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures that provide longer lasting, natural looking results. His unique methods dramatically shorten a patients’ recovery time.
Cosmetic procedures include upper and lower eyelid enhancement, forehead/brow lift, face and neck lift, lip and nose enhancement and laser wrinkle reduction.
Call or email to schedule a consultation today. Let Dr. Geroulis restore the youth that still lives within you!
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Dr. Anthony Geroulis Email: [email protected]: 847.441.4441 www.geroulis.com
North Shore:North Shore Center for Cosmetic Surgery330 West Frontage Rd.Northfield, IL 60093
Downtown:Olympia Center (Neiman Marcus Building)737 North Michigan Ave., Suite 1045Chicago, IL 60611
Northwest:St. Alexius Medical Center1555 Barrington Road, Suite 3350Doctor’s Building ThreeHoffman Estates, IL 60169
Eye bag removal with no visible incision is just one of the cosmetic procedures performed at the skillful hand of Dr. Anthony Geroulis. Dr. Geroulis is an artistic/sculptor and thus considers each patient’s face an art form.
Known as ‘the surgeon who teaches surgeons’, Dr. Geroulis, a clinical professor of surgery at the University of Chicago hospitals, is nationally recognized as a ‘Top Doctor’ in U.S. News & World Report. His North Shore Center for Cosmetic Surgery is a state-of-the-art surgical facility.
Dr. Geroulis performs facial plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures that provide longer lasting, natural looking results. His unique methods dramatically shorten a patients’ recovery time.
Cosmetic procedures include upper and lower eyelid enhancement, forehead/brow lift, face and neck lift, lip and nose enhancement and laser wrinkle reduction.
Call or email to schedule a consultation today. Let Dr. Geroulis restore the youth that still lives within you!
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to the FACE EXPERT
Dr. Anthony Geroulis Email: [email protected]: 847.441.4441 www.geroulis.com
North Shore:North Shore Center for Cosmetic Surgery330 West Frontage Rd.Northfield, IL 60093
Downtown:Olympia Center (Neiman Marcus Building)737 North Michigan Ave., Suite 1045Chicago, IL 60611
Northwest:St. Alexius Medical Center1555 Barrington Road, Suite 3350Doctor’s Building ThreeHoffman Estates, IL 60169
Eye bag removal with no visible incision is just one of the cosmetic procedures performed at the skillful hand of Dr. Anthony Geroulis. Dr. Geroulis is an artistic/sculptor and thus considers each patient’s face an art form.
Known as ‘the surgeon who teaches surgeons’, Dr. Geroulis, a clinical professor of surgery at the University of Chicago hospitals, is nationally recognized as a ‘Top Doctor’ in U.S. News & World Report. His North Shore Center for Cosmetic Surgery is a state-of-the-art surgical facility.
Dr. Geroulis performs facial plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures that provide longer lasting, natural looking results. His unique methods dramatically shorten a patients’ recovery time.
Cosmetic procedures include upper and lower eyelid enhancement, forehead/brow lift, face and neck lift, lip and nose enhancement and laser wrinkle reduction.
Call or email to schedule a consultation today. Let Dr. Geroulis restore the youth that still lives within you!
TRUST YOUR FACE
to the FACE EXPERT
Dr. Anthony Geroulis Email: [email protected]: 847.441.4441 www.geroulis.com
North Shore:North Shore Center for Cosmetic Surgery330 West Frontage Rd.Northfield, IL 60093
Downtown:Olympia Center (Neiman Marcus Building)737 North Michigan Ave., Suite 1045Chicago, IL 60611
Northwest:St. Alexius Medical Center1555 Barrington Road, Suite 3350Doctor’s Building ThreeHoffman Estates, IL 60169
Eye bag removal with no visible incision is just one of the cosmetic procedures performed at the skillful hand of Dr. Anthony Geroulis. Dr. Geroulis is an artist/sculptor and thus considers each patient’s face an art form.
Known as ‘the surgeon who teaches surgeons’, Dr. Geroulis, a clinical professor of surgery at the University of Chicago hospitals, is nationally recognized as a ‘Top Doctor’ in U.S. News & World Report. His North Shore Center for Cosmetic Surgery is a state-of-the-art surgical facility.
Dr. Geroulis performs facial plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures that provide longer lasting, natural looking results. His unique methods dramatically shorten a patients’ recovery time.
Cosmetic procedures include upper and lower eyelid enhancement, forehead/brow lift, face and neck lift, lip and nose enhancement and laser wrinkle reduction.
Call or email to schedule a consultation today. Let Dr. Geroulis restore the youth that still lives within you!
TRUST YOUR FACE
to the FACE EXPERT
Dr. Anthony Geroulis Email: [email protected]: 847.441.4441 www.geroulis.com
North Shore:North Shore Center for Cosmetic Surgery330 West Frontage Rd.Northfield, IL 60093
Downtown:Olympia Center (Neiman Marcus Building)737 North Michigan Ave., Suite 1045Chicago, IL 60611
Northwest:St. Alexius Medical Center1555 Barrington Road, Suite 3350Doctor’s Building ThreeHoffman Estates, IL 60169
NEWS DIGESTChristmas Tree & Wreath Sale
Beginning Friday, November 28 at Historic Wagner Farm, dress up your home and yard for the season with Wagner Farm’s beautiful selection of cut holiday trees and wreaths. Sales help to feed and support the animals on the farm. Wagner Farm is located at 1510 Wagner Rd.
Holiday Store at The GroveFrom 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Fri-
day-Sunday, November 28-30 and 10 a.m.-5 p.m., every Wednesday-Sunday, December 3-21 find the holiday spirit alive and well at The Grove. Those shoppers itching to escape the mall can discover unique gift items for all those special people on your list. Shop for personal-ized ornaments, home accesso-ries, gifts, and crafts. Proceeds from the sale benefit The Grove. The Grove is located at 1421 Milwaukee Ave.
Annual Holiday SongfestAt 12:30 p.m., on December
9 at the Park Center, come and enjoy local senior choral groups. Attendees can expect to hear holiday favorites and wintery songs. The event is free and open to the public and takes place in the Lakeview Room. Park Center is located at 2400 Chestnut Ave.
Gingerbread JubileeFrom 9:30-11:30 a.m. and 1-3
p.m., December 5 at Historic Wagner Farm, attendees can come decorate a unique ginger-bread barn while listening to holiday music, sipping hot chocolate, and enjoying cookies. Price is per barn decorated. His-toric Wagner Farm is located at 1510 Wagner Rd.
Holiday in the Park & Parade
Starting from OLPH parking lot on Glenview Rd. & Lehigh Rd to Jackman Park on Saturday, November 28, from 4–7 p.m. the Annual Holiday in the Park & Parade will feature holiday-themed floats, vehicles, and en-tertainers. Attendees are encour-
aged to bring a new toy for the Holiday Gift Program organized by the Youth Services of Glen-view/Northbrook.
Santa himself will have his own fancy float. Once the parade is parked, Mr. Claus will visit with children in Jackman Park. This event is free and open to the public.
Mosaic Christmas Tree Make and Take Workshop
On Sunday, December 6 from 1-4 p.m., come join Reds Garden Center for a mosaic Christmas tree workshop where attendees can take with them whatever they make.
Stop by to channel your artis-tic and creative side in this very unique workshop, where the instructor is a mosaic artist. All supplies are available onsite to complete your very own Christ-mas tree. Attendees are encour-aged to bring their own holiday tableware and plates to use in their design.
Cost of the class is $50 per person and preregistration is
required. Call 847-272-1209 or email [email protected].
And don’t miss stopping by December 12 (from 11 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) to the center at 3460 Dundee Road in Northbrook to see live reindeer!
Winter Wonderland Train Ride
All aboard! Join Metra for a trip aboard the Winter Wonder-land Train. Attendees will meet at the North Glenview Metra Train Station and board the train bound for the Libertyville Train Station. Along the way, enjoy reading a holiday story. Once in Libertyville, savor a meal at Egg Harbor Café.
Santa will join the group on the way back to Glenview and he will have a special gift for each child. December 5-6 and Decem-ber 12-13. Space is limited, res-ervations are necessary. Book your tickets while you can.
Country Christmas & Dessert with Santa
Get into the holiday spirit with a real country Christmas at The Grove National Historic Landmark. Decorate the Christ-mas tree, make crafts and enjoy the sights and sounds of a country Christmas at the Pioneer Log Cabin. Then take a pleasant walk to the Redfield Estate to enjoy refreshments, decorate cookies, and visit with Santa. November 29 and December 2-3. Space is limited, reservations are necessary.
Gifted YoungstersLast month, Samuel Jaffe, a
student from Glenbrook South High School, was honored as one of the brightest middle school students in the world at an inter-national awards ceremony spon-sored by the John Hopkins University Center for Talented Your (CTY).
The Center honored Jaffe for his exceptional performance as a middle school student on the college SAT, ACT, or similar test as part of the 2014-2015 CTY Talent Search.
CTY’s Talent Search identifies and recognizes the academic capabilities of advanced students around the world. This year, more than 30,648 students in grades 2-8 participated in the Talent Search, representing all 50 states and more than 60 countries.
Of this group 1,175 students scored high enough on their above-grade level tests to be invited to the ceremony on the John Hopkins University campus. At least 148 of these students achieved a perfect score on the reading or math section of the test taken.
“We are delighted to take a moment to recognize these aca-demically advanced students for their achievements and to honor the parents and teachers who have helped foster their love of learning,” said Elaine Tuttle Hansen, executive director of CTY. “These are the builders and leaders of tomorrow, and as edu-cators and citizens we need to do all we can to encourage their potential to think, create, col-laborate, and persist.”
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BY JAKE JARVI
When you find yourself saying, “There should be a (blank),” and no
amount of Googling turns up that (blank), it ’s a sign that you’ve discovered a gap in the marketplace. When Rachel Cantor, a senior at North Shore Country Day in Winnetka, found herself having one such conversation with her friend Sophia Dawn, they started to lay out a way to turn that “should be” into a reality. That’s how The Dawtor was born.
“It’s important to be informed about the world around you,” Cantor says. “Most teenage girls don’t tend to read the newspaper. We talked about why that is. Why don’t these girls read the news? We came to this conclu-sion that the language is not geared toward a teenage audi-
ence—it’s complicated. So we decided to create an online blog that posts current event sum-maries for teenage girls in a way that appeals to them through pop culture references, jokes, and easy to understand language.”
With headlines like “@thedeependofthepool…” for a story about the Puerto Rican government defaulting on a loan, or a story on Obama’s clean energy initiatives containing a sentence like “…announced a long range plan to kick carbon emissions a$$,” this is global news interpreted by teens and restructured for a teenage audi-ence. Some stories are broken up into a single paragraph, very geared toward the sound bite culture of the internet. At the end of each story they link to the more traditionally formatted news source from which they culled the story, in case their
teenage readers want to click through and try the other version. But most of their audi-ence will probably want to stick with the site that calls a police shooting crazier than Lolla or Osheaga (two large-scale music festivals).
Cantor and Dawn originally met at a social entrepreneurship summer camp called Summer-fuel, a three-week program at Yale devoted to helping the develop the next generation of business innovators. In their desire to start a project together it was their mutual love of reading, writing, and staying informed that drove the develop-ment of The Dawtor. Cantor has spent most of her time of late rebranding The Dawtor from locating a site designer to finding the perfect fonts for the new version of the site they launched on November 1. Dawn, who lives
in Manhattan, has taken on the task of managing their growing base of teenage writers.
“We knew that there are a lot of talented teens and we want all of our writers to be teens,” Cantor says. “I’ve been emailing so many teachers and newspaper editors from different schools saying—This is what we’re all about and we would love to have some of your students write for us, let me know if anyone is in-terested. Or even summer pro-grams like Cherubs (a summer journalism program) at North-western. What’s really cool about it is that we have a writing staff f rom Manhattan, Atlanta, England, India, people who come from different back-grounds and places so we come to a greater understanding of topics.”
For more information visit thedawtor.com.
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Winnetka Teen Creates News Source for Teens
Rachel Cantor
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LIFESTYLE & ARTS
It seemed that before the Super-man cape had dried out from a rainy afternoon of Halloween
trick-or-treating, my family was watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
The story, produced for televi-sion in 1973, is a predictable tale
of how the Peanuts gang ends up spending the holiday together in Charlie Brown’s backyard. Comic relief comes from Snoopy’s prepa-ration of the meal: buttered toast, popcorn and jellybeans.
After more than a few com-plaints about the meal and a short
retelling of the Pilgrim’s voyage on the Mayflower, it’s Peppermint Patty’s sidekick Marcie who reminds the gang of why they have gathered:
“Thanksgiving is more than eating, Chuck. You heard what Linus was saying out there. Those early Pilgrims were thankful for what had happened to them, and we should be thankful, too. We should just be thankful for being together.”
It’s a good reminder for us all, while we hustle to prepare the requested vegetable side dish and Christmas list of the children’s most wanted toys before our trek to celebrate Thanksgiving with our aunts, uncles and cousins. But science suggests I should squirrel Marcie’s advice away for the other 364 days of the year.
Scientists at the University of Georgia found that gratitude con-sistently predicts how happy we will be in our marriages. This con-clusion was drawn from research-ers’ questioning of 468 married people about their finances, com-munication style and how grateful they felt toward their partner. It
seems that saying “thank you” fre-quently demonstrates gratitude and appreciation that can protect couples from the damage caused in an argument.
“Even if a couple is experiencing distress and difficulty in other areas, gratitude in the relationship can help promote positive marital out-comes,” said lead author Allen Barton, a postdoctoral research associate at the university’s Center for Family Research.
Added associate professor Ted Futris, “All couples have disagree-ments and argue. What distin-guishes the marriages that last from those that don’t is not how often they argue, but how they argue and how they treat each other on a daily basis.”
And so I was ecstatic to learn that the kindergartners at one local elementary school are getting the same lesson that these college professors are sharing with married adults: gratitude should be a daily practice.
Assistant superintendent for Sunset Ride School District 29 Mary Frances Greene told me about the kindergartners’ Gratitude
Journals. Once or twice a week as part of their literacy education the children are encouraged to write down what they are thankful for. They begin this exercise in the fall, when they learn about the Native Americans’ gratitude for our Earth.
The kindergartners’ journaling “usually starts with things like their toys, but gradually we talk about and get them thinking about things they are thankful for which we can not buy and replace,” Greene ex-plained. “It’s an opportunity for the
children to develop the ability to think outside of themselves and their own needs, and slowly we see them all start sentences like ‘I am thankful for so-and-so because he is my friend.”
It’s a good lesson for the kinder-gartners, and for thirty-somethings like me, during this season of Thanksgiving.ntimate with their partner.
Tell me what about your marriage and spouse are you most thankful for, via email to [email protected].
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LIGHT, HEALTHY, AND TASTYBY SIMON MURRAY
Two weeks ago, attendees in their evening best descend-ed on the Four Seasons
Hotel Chicago for a $500-a-plate benefit dinner. Instead of veal shanks or prime rib however (aka the usual black-tie gala fare), benefit-goers were treated to a colorful plateful of vegetables, forbidden black rice, and to top it off, a miso-marinated black cod with Umami sauce.
Light fare. Clean food. A plate chock full of phytonutrients and Omega-3 fatty acids, or the equivalent of the necessary fuel the body needs. In other words, the benefit dinner for Northwest-ern Medicine’s Osher Center for Integrative Medicine practiced (and served) what it preaches: a mixed diet that can lead to a long, heart-happy life.
“We recommend a colorful plate, a plate of many colors; col-orful fruits and vegetables,” said Karen Malkin, an integrative health and lifestyle practitioner from Glencoe and one of two benefit co-chairs of the evening. “Because each color has a different health benefit for you.”
Malkin (along with co-chair Dr. Tara Demarco) designed the benefit’s health-conscious menu from Dr. Andrew Weil’s cook-book: True Food. Weil, the night’s keynote speaker, is a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine and a holistic health advocate, and is also the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine where Malkin studied.
Weil oversees a website (Dr.Weil.com) and the non-profit organization the Weil Foundation, with the goal of transforming healthcare. His newest foray is into the restaurant business, where
the good doctor has opened a chain of restaurants under the name True Food Kitchen. (One will be coming to Chicago in 2016.) Its food is described as being “great-tasting, globally in-spired cuisine that nourishes body, mind and spirit.”
But you don’t have to be a die-hard Yogi to dine at True Food Kitchen, just as the night’s at-tendees didn’t have to be die-hard holistic gurus to enjoy the fare and hor d’oeuvres.
“Every piece of food and also the drinks were thoughtfully created to really help promote health and reduce inflammation, so this is an anti-inflammatory menu,” said Malkin. But it’s also about good tasting food as well. Purple eggplants; red, yellow and green peppers; sautéed mush-rooms; and mixed berries for dessert. That’s not even mention-ing the cocktails. “I call [them] ‘mocktails,’” laughed Malkin. Cardio-blast “pomatini” and Virgin Mary’s loaded with lyco-pene and vitamin C.
Of the 500 guests, each left with a copy of Weil’s new cook-book Fast Food, Good Food. But more than that, they left with something even more valuable. They left with the confidence that they were going to add more leafy greens to their diets, or maybe that they were going to add more tur-meric—the ballpark yellow spice typically found in curry (and a powerful anti-inflammatory agent)—to their food.
But above all, added Malkin, if they weren’t before, certainly they were “energized and empowered to make some changes in their own health and own life.”
For more health-conscious recipes, visit karenmalkin.com/recipes or drweil.com/drw/ecs/common/recipe.
SERVES: 4
True Food Kitchen’s Miso Marinade (makes 1½ cups)• ½ cup mirin• ½ cup white (shiro) miso• ½ cup evaporated cane
sugar
1. Whisk together all of the miso marinade ingredients and refrigerate until ready to use.
Miso-Marinated Black Cod and Vegetables • 4 (5- to 6-ounce) black cod
fillets• 1 cup Dashi• 8 heads baby bok choy,
halved• 1 cup roasted mushrooms
1. Arrange the fish in a single layer in a shallow baking pan. Using your hands, rub the miso marinade all over each piece of fish. Wash your hands. Let the fish marinate for at least 30 minutes and up to 12 hours in the refrigerator
2. Preheat the oven to broil.
3. Remove the fish the from the refrigerator and pour ½ cup of the Dashi into the baking pan. Broil the fish for 10 to 15 minutes, depending on the desired doneness. The fish will continue to cook once removed from the boiler.
4. While the fish is cooking, place the bok choy halves in a skillet, and add the remaining ½ cup Dashi. Cover and steam over medium-high heat until cooked but still crunchy, about 3 minutes. Add the roasted mushrooms and heat them through. Place the vegetables and broth in heated bowls. Add the cod and serve.
Miso-Marinated Black Cod and Vegetables. PHOTOGRAPHY BY RYAN LUMLEY AND KATIE HURLEY.
Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Tara Demarco, and Karen Malkin.
“This signature True Food
Kitchen preparation showcases
one of my favorite fish: black
cod. A sustainable deep-water
species from Alaska, black cod
is mild and buttery, with a
higher omega-3 content than
salmon. The dish … is a best
seller at all of our locations, an
attractive presentation that is
rich and satisfying, yet clean
and light at the same time.”
–Dr. Andrew Weil
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Musings by Mike Lubow
North Shorts
“The Force”
There’s a woman around here who has an unearthly talent for making good things
happen for her family, friends, and for you when you’re part of her plans.
You think of her as “The Girl With The Force.”
She makes you recall the Star Wars films, with their plot device known as “The Force,” a mystical power some people could tap into. The Jedi Master, Obi Wan, used it in his “mind trick.” He’d flip his hand in front of a hostile guard and say “Let us pass.” The guard who wasn’t supposed to do this would say, “Pass!”
Okay, back to our planet, our North Shore. You and your wife want to go to a hot restaurant where it’s impossible to get a table. Girl-with-the Force and her husband are joining you, and she scores a reservation. It’s for the time you want, the day you want, even a table you like. How?
Or, you’re planning a trip and your hotel is booked solid. You mention this to Girl-with-the Force. Soon, not only do you have a room there, but it’s got a view. And a discount! How?
Girl-with-the Force is the North Shore incarnation of a Jedi knight right out of Star Wars. But, again: how?
She smiles coyly, and explains she discovered long, long ago that seven magical words can wield special power. You figure there’s no way she’s going to reveal them. But Girl-with-the Force sur-prises you. And they’re so simple you wonder if there’s a really a force in play at all, or just common sense:
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The Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema (CFIC) shared their apprecia-tion of their culture with the commu-nity at large during a screening of Af-terthought, a movie written and directed by Elad Keidan, during a screening at AMC Northbrook Court on October 28. Supporters and com-munity leaders gathered for the evening to view the film and celebrate CFIC’s 10th anniversary. The Northbrook venue was just one of four around Chicagoland to show screenings of the several Israeli films during the festival, which featured a wide assortment of movies, in seven different languages. Afterthought made its international debut in Cannes.
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REAL ESTATE
Glenview Wilmette
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Skokie Hwy
N Green Bay Rd
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E Park Ave
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OPEN HOUSES
26
1-19
50-53
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1. 681 Edgecote LaneLAKE FORESTSunday 12-2PM$749,900Lisa Trace, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors®847.234 0485
2. 577 Greenway DriveLAKE FORESTSunday 2:15-4PM$1,149,000Lisa Trace, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors®847.234.0485
3. 292 Sussex LaneLAKE FORESTSunday 1-3PM$989,000Cathy McKechney, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors®847.234.0816
4. 1311 Burr Oak RoadLAKE FORESTSunday, 2-4PM$637,000Linda Smith, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors®847.234.0485
5. 1085 Windhaven CtLAKE FOREST Sunday 2-4$1,143,000Andra O’Neill, @properties847.295.0700
6. 1079 Jensen Dr.LAKE FORESTSunday, 12-2$1,475,000Elizabeth Rasmussen, Baird & Warner847.721.3481
7. 1451 Harlan Ln.LAKE FORESTSunday, 1-3$995,000Sally Goodman, Baird & Warner
847.219.0786
8. 575 Glenwood Rd.LAKE FORESTSunday, 1-3pm$550,000Paula Moss, Baird & Warner847.308.4085
9. 1230 North Western Ave. Unit 209LAKE FORESTSunday 11am-1pm$389,900Christopher Yore, Baird Warner847.804.2879
10. 495 S McCormickLAKE FORESTSunday 11-1$1,150,000Laura Henderson, Baird Warner708.997.7778
11. 327 S BasswoodLAKE FORESTSunday 1-3$1,099,000Laura Henderson, Baird & Warner708.997.7778
12. 568 GreenwayLAKE FORESTSunday 1-3$1,199,000Vera Purcell, Coldwell Banker847.234.8000 13. 555 BeverlyLAKE FORESTSunday 1-3$689,000Patricia Carter, Coldwell Banker847.234.8000 14. 130 WinstonLAKE FORESTSunday 1-3$449,000Patricia Carter, Coldwell Banker847.234.8000 15. 1490 S. West Fork DriveLAKE FORESTSunday 2-4$599,000Suzie Hempstead, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.910.8465 16. 834 Waveland RoadLAKE FORESTSunday 11-1$749,000Tracy Wurster Team, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.997.0730 17. 33 S. Sheridan RoadLAKE FORESTSunday 2-4$1,100,000Tracy Wurster Team, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff312.972.2515
18. 153 Ridge Lane
LAKE FORESTSunday 1-4$1,499,000
Kelly McInerney & Kiki Clark, Berkshire Hathaway
HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.804.0969
19. 991 AshleyLAKE FOREST
Sunday, 1 – 3pm$1,675,000
Eileen Campbell, Berkshire
Hathaway HomeServices
KoenigRubloff847.757.5181
20. 190 Leonard Wood SouthHIGHLAND PARKSunday 1-3PM$439,000Marie Colette, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors®847.234.0816
21. 432 Carol Court HIGHLAND PARK Sunday 1-3 $447,500 Albiani/Ackerman, @properties 847.432.0700
22. 1327 Nyoda Place HIGHLAND PARK Sunday 1-3 $268,888 Susan Ringel Segal, @properties 847.881.0200
23. 880 Apple Tree LaneHIGHLAND PARKSunday 1:30-3:30$485,000Janet Borden, Coldwell Banker 847.833.3171
24. 1929 Clifton Ave.HIGHLAND PARKSunday 12-2$550,000Sonia Cohen, Coldwell Banker847.337.6005 25. 150 Red Oak Ln.HIGHLAND PARKSunday 2-4$789,000Mada Hitchmough, Coldwell Banker847.732.2970
26. 424 Castlewood LaneDEERFIELDSunday 12-2$639,000Karen Skurie, Baird and Warner847.361.4687
27. 1973 KoehlingNORTHBROOKSunday 1-3$330,000Jeanne Keiler, Baird & Warner847.446.1855
28. 1181 Hillside Drive NORTHBROOK Sunday 1-3 $499,000 Susan Ringel and Gary Segal, @properties 847.881.0200
29. 560 Drexel Ave.GLENCOESunday, 12-2$525,000Hilde Wheeler Carter, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000
30. 338 Lincoln AvenueGLENCOESunday, 2 – 4pm$699,000Eileen Campbell, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.757.5181 31. 391 Madison Ave.GLENCOESunday 12-2$1,349,900Jody Dickstein, Coldwell Banker847.651.7100
32. 2021 Old WillowNORTHFIELDSunday 2-4$435,000Peg O'Halloran, Baird & Warner847.446.1855
33. 17 BristolNORTHFIELD
Sunday, 1 – 3pm$1,895,000
Betsy Burke, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff
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34. 433 LocustWINNETKASunday 12-2:30$1,550,000Peg O'Halloran, Baird & Warner847.446.1855
35. 680 LocustWINNETKA$1,795,000Sunday 2-4Kelly Lundin, The Hudson Company847.542.5648 36. 1437 AsburyWINNETKA$1,095,000Sunday 12-2Laura McCain, The Hudson Company847.347.4630 37. 120 BertlingWINNETKA$1,000,000Sunday 2-4Howard Meyers, The Hudson Company847.778.1394
38. 341 Woodland AveWINNETKASunday2-4$1,199,000The Skirving Team,Coldwell BankerPatti 847-924-4119/Greg 847-863-3614
39. 1310 Forest Glen Drive WINNETKA Sunday 1-3 $1,499,000 Mary Grant, @properties 847.881.0200
40. 1067 Cherry Street WINNETKA Sunday 11-1 $965,000 Kate Huff, @properties 847.881.0200 42. 1200 Sunset Rd.WINNETKA Sunday, 2:30-4:30$1,695,000SFC Team, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 43. 940 Ash St. WINNETKASunday, 2:30-4:30$1,699,000Vicki Nelson, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 44. 808 Lincoln Ave.WINNETKASunday, 12-2$1,324,000Claudia Gaynor, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 45. 1168 Cherry St.WINNETKASunday, 1-3$949,000Tina Barr, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 46. 1099 Merrill St. #2WINNETKASunday, 2:30-4$115,000Hilde Wheeler Carter, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000
47. 876 Foxdale Ave.WINNETKASunday 1-3$892,500Andrea Krinsky, Coldwell Banker847.651.6550
48. 443 ChestnutWINNETKASunday 12-2$1,795,000Sarah Dwyer, Jean Wright Real Estate847.727.4619
49. 360 Green Bay Road, Unit 2BWINNETKASunday 12-2$719,000Dinny Dwyer, Jean Wright Real Estate847.217.5146
50. 631 Park Drive KENILWORTH Sunday 12-2 $799,000 Barbara Mawicke, @properties 847.881.0200
51. 704 Roger Avenue KENILWORTH Sunday 12-2 $799,000 Barbara Mawicke, @properties 847.881.0200
52. 555 Earlston Road KENILWORTH Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,295,000 Barbara Mawicke, @properties 847.881.0200
53. 650 ParkKENILWORTHSunday, 12 – 1:30pm$930,000Sherry Molitor, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.204.6282
54. 700 Laramie Avenue GLENVIEWSunday 1-3 $750,000 Lyn Flannery, @properties 847.881.0200
55. 2822 BirchwoodWILMETTESunday 12-2$1,299,900Alicja Skibicki, Baird & Warner847.446.1855
56. 342 Greenleaf Avenue WILMETTE Sunday 12-1:30 $1,349,000 Ginger Cavalier, @properties 847.763.0200
57. 617 Hunter Road WILMETTE Sunday 1-3 $1,250,000 Susan Ringel Segal, @properties 847.881.0200
58. 1518 Forest Avenue WILMETTE Sunday 2-4 $1,579,000 Kate Huff, @properties 847.881.0200
59. 921 Oakwood Ave.WILMETTESunday, 12-2$1,895,000SFC Team, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000 60. 1112 Elmwood Ave.WILMETTESunday, 1-3$1,070,000Bettye Raglin, Coldwell Banker Winnetka847.446.4000
61. 1947 GreenwoodWILMETTESunday, 2 – 4pm$1,225,000Sherry Molitor and Sandy Clifton, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff847.204.6282 and 847.212.3981
62. 2936 Central AvenueWILMETTESunday 2-3:30$399,000Eugene Shin, Coldwell Banker 312.848.6543
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HOUSES OF THE WEEK
$2,250,000833 Chatham RoadGlenview7 Bedrooms, 5.1 BathroomsExclusively Presented By: Ramie Robbins@properties(847) [email protected]
Spectacular Doug Reynolds- built home. This luxury French colonial inspired home has it all: high-end kitchen with custom cabinets and heated floors, exquisite millwork, hardwood and stone floors and plantation shutters throughout. Dual staircases lead to five large upstairs bedrooms all with en-suite bathroom access and large closets.
$1,225,000100 SequoiaDeerfield5 Bedroom, 4 ½ BathsExclusively Presented By: Adam MeredithColdwell Banker, Deerfield [email protected]
Over 4,000 square feet of living space on the top two floors and over 1,000 feet of finished space in the basement. The modest Cape Cod exterior of this home belies it's spacious interior. A luxu-rious guest suite on the 1st floor, and a Fully finished basement. The house has all new mechanicals, and new zero maintenance siding. Situated in the highly desirable Colony Point subdivision of Deerfield.
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UnIted YOU standBuying a new home can be an exciting prospect. You’ve done your homework you know what you want; you just have to find it. Everything is negotiable except the location of the house, and your Realtor® can help you with sorting through the rest of your considerations when choosing a home—provided that you have come to a clear understanding and are able to unify your efforts together. After all—your happiness and successful closing is the end goal for both of you. Your Realtor® will know what to keep an eye out for, what the seller is willing to compromise on and what they are firm on. There are a few things you need to remember when house hunting:• Always be united. If the seller sees that one person loves the house while the other person is on the fence, they may use this information to sway one or influence the other.• Leave your ego at home. If you’re looking at a home and you like it, but there’s something that doesn’t appeal to you, ask the question nicely about it. Being rude gets you nothing except the likelihood of paying more for the home than you would have paid otherwise. It also makes the seller reluctant to try to work with you to reach a compromise.• Be skeptical. Not ‘I don’t believe anything you say’ skeptical, but a little skepticism is healthy and can help with the negotiations.
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2020 Chestnut Ave 309, Glenview $279,500Janet Leverenz 847-724-5800
517 Hazelwood Ln, Glenview $299,900Vicky Maurici 847-272-9880
2365 Waukegan Rd 3-AB, Northbrook $999,900Marla Schneider 847-724-5800
320 Ferndale Rd, Glenview $769,000Marla Schneider 847-724-5800
2954 Acorn Ln, Northbrook $549,000Cheryl O’Rourke 847-724-5800
1 Brittany Ln, Lincolnshire $899,900Scott Rose 847-945-7100
3220 Sandy Ln, Glenview $635,000Cindy Fine 847-724-5800
3735 Maple Ave, Northbrook $769,000Barb Pepoon 847-272-9880
2521 Palmer Ct, Riverwoods $1,450,000Michele Vold 847-945-7100
701 Woodmere Ln, Glenview $1,745,000Wendy Smith 847-446-4000
4513 Lindenwood Ln, Northbrook $350,000Steven Sims 847-272-9880
2800 Central Rd, Glenview $339,900Shirlee Ehlers 847-696-0700
1332 Pine St, Glenview $329,000Beverly Karlin 847-222-5000
809 Glendale Rd, Glenview $349,000Anne DuBray 847-724-5800
11 Pine Tree Rd, Northbrook $327,900Norma LoPresti 847-272-9880
1230 Thornapple Ln, Northbrook $1,175,000Stefanie Neuman Lavelle 312-266-7000
3851 Mission Hills Rd 511, Northbrook $149,000Emilia Salonikas 847-272-9880
31 Melrose Ln, Lincolnshire $519,900Caryn Miller 847-541-5000
4215 Linden Tree Ln, Glenview $510,000Margaret Ludemann 847-724-5800
512 Rivershire Pl, Lincolnshire $499,000Constance Snyder 847-945-7100
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Robin Walker received one text message, then another, then another throughout a
morning last weekend. The Glen-brook North girls swimming coach figured he got nine texts, at least, all coming from former Spartans swimmers.
Music. Walker’s phone was making sweet, haphazard music on Nov. 14, the day Glenbrook North hosted a 13-team sec-tional meet. Each alumna had taken the time to wish Walker and his current crew well.
The text messages moved Walker, heartened Walker, buoyed Walker.
“How great is that, former girls in our program thinking about us on a Saturday, on the morning of a sectional?” Walker, in his 23rd season at the school, said. “All these alumni, from all over the country, hitting the pause button in their lives to take the time to text me, to encourage our girls … great. I think that’s great.”
Walker, after the meet, re-vealed he would text Glenbrook North graduate Christina Park, now a junior at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, with some significant news from North-brook. Park’s school mark in the 100-yard backstroke (58.58) had been supplanted by Spartans junior Emily Clesen. Clesen, a JV swimmer two years ago, pulled her way to a third-place and state-qualifying time of 58.51 on Nov. 14.
“Christina, no doubt,” Walker said, “will be happy for Emily.”
Clesen, the reigning Central Suburban League North cham-pion in the 100 backstroke, pro-duced good news early in the sectional, serving as the lead-off leg for the Spartans’ 200 medley relay. Her backstroke split: an electric 27.1, 1.4 seconds faster than her previous personal-best split. Sophomore Tiffany Qiao hit the water next for the Spar-tans, followed by sophomore Ellen Gilbert, followed by junior anchor Sabrina Baxamusa. The quartet’s fourth-place time of 1:47.45 was state-meet worthy and represented a four-plus second shearing of its seed time.
“I like doing that,” the 5-foot-6 Clesen, fully tapered for the sectional, said of the opportunity to set a crucial tone as the first leg of the first event at meets. “I got out of the pool [after the backstroke leg at the sectional], and I wasn’t tired at all. I was breathing hard, yes, but my legs weren’t burning; they felt great. I wasn’t in any kind of pain. I re-member thinking, How did I do that?”
All she wanted to achieve in the 100 back was a state-cut time or better. The state cut in the event: 59.08. Her seed time in the event: 1:00.71 Her lane number in the event: 7, an unen-viable slot since it is closer to a pool’s side than it is to the event’s fastest racers. It turned out to be a good number for Clesen, luck having nothing to do with the
result — a school record.“I had absolutely no idea that
I had set the record when I fin-ished,” Clesen said. “I think it hit me when I saw my teammates jumping up and down for me. Multiple people came up to me later and said, ‘You deserved that.’ That meant a lot, hearing that. I worked so hard for that moment. This year I started to understand the pieces of the puzzle I’m putting together as a swimmer.”
Clesen was an observer, not a participant, at a sectional meet two years ago. A sectional meet is not a normal meet. It’s usually air-horn-blaring-right-behind-your-head loud, and pressure is palpable, everywhere. The stands are packed. Heartbeats jackham-mer. Swimmers’ tummies are executing inward somersaults, diving judges nowhere near the
pool deck to flash their scores.Clesen took it all in, watching
the races, seeing and hearing the reactions of the racers and the coaches and the spectators.
“You know what she was thinking back then?” Walker, named Sectional Coach of the Year for the seventh time last weekend, said. “She was thinking, If I stay with this, stick with this sport, I could do this, compete in a meet like this. Emily decided, at that meet, Yes, I want to be a part of a meet like this someday. You saw what she did [on Nov. 14]. You saw how well she swam. There is nothing more powerful than the time when a vision is realized.
“She is,” the coach added, “a really good listener, a sponge, the way she absorbs things you tell her.”
Spartans entrants earned five other state berths at the sec-tional. Qiao and Baxamusa set pool records in back-to-back races, Qiao achieving hers in the 200 IM (2:07.19) and Baxamusa accomplishing the feat in the 50 freestyle (23.69). Former Glen-brook South star and current world-class swimmer Olivia Smoliga, a junior at the Univer-sity of Georgia Bulldog, had held the previous pool mark in the 200 IM (2:09.51, set in 2012). Qiao has battled shoulder and ankle injuries this fall, plus a persistent cough. She joined Baxamusa, Gilbert and sophomore Natalie Horwitz for a state-qualifying effort in the 400 free relay (3:35.03, fourth place).
Baxamusa took third in the 100 free (state-qualifying 52.21), and Gilbert advanced to state in
the 100 butterfly (58.0, third place).
Glenbrook North sophomore Maggie Li medaled in the 100 fly (59.51, sixth place) but did not qualify for state in the event.
The Spartans, third at the CSL North Meet on Nov. 7, finished first among league division schools at the sectional in the home water on Nov. 14. Glen-brook North tallied 161 points (fourth place), ahead of Deerfield (124, fifth), Niles North (85, sixth), CSL North Meet cham-pion Highland Park (57, eighth) and Maine East (3, 13th).
Notable: Glenbrook North coach Robin Walker insists on picking a team motto each season. This year’s: “Trust yourself so others can.” His dream gift, after he retires: a quilt of the team T-shirt (motto included) from each of his Glenbrook North seasons, 23 and counting. … Spartans junior Emily Clesen, on classmate and four-event state qualifier Sabrina Baxamusa, after last weekend’s Glenbrook North Sectional: “She had a stellar meet.”
Glenbrook South
Senior Constance Chrones emerged as the Titans’ lone state qualifier at the Glenbrook North Sectional, advancing with a seventh-place time of 1:06.42 in the 100 breaststroke. She had entered the event with a seed time of 1:08.43.
Chrones swam on Glenbrook South’s seventh-place 200 medley relay at state last year. She also swam a 400 free relay leg at state.
Chrones also swam on a pair of sixth-place relays at last week-end’s sectional in Northbrook. She served as the lead-off leg of the 200 free unit (1:40.66), ahead of freshman Catherine Devine and juniors Allison Wyland and Sam Casey. Chrones, Wyland, Devine and freshman Nomun Saintur combined for a 1:49.27 in the 200 medley relay.
The state meet at New Trier starts on Nov. 20. The diving preliminaries begin at 9 a.m., the swim prelims at 3:30 p.m.
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TEXT-BOOK FINISH Glenbrook North’s Clesen sends message at sectional, sets record in 100 backstroke
Glenbrook North junior Emily Clesen, seen here at the start of the 50 freestyle, sped to the school mark in the 100 backstroke (58.51) at the GBN Sectional. PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE HANDWERKER.
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What fans saw from Mitch Schermerhorn on Friday nights was lightning-rod
stuff.The kid was electric, when he
had the ball in space. He con-stantly put opposing teams in im-minent danger.
He also was clutch.“You wanted to put the ball in
his hands in critical situations,” Glenbrook North offensive coor-dinator Dom Savino said.
But being an offensive threat was only half of Schermerhorn’s story. The senior was equally productive on the defensive end, making him one of the best two-way players in the North Division of the Central Suburban League this fall.
He ended up with rave reviews. The league named him co-Defen-sive Player of the Year with Deer-field standout and fellow defensive back Lukas Kerstein.
“But his ability as a football player went beyond his skill set,” Savino added. “What made him special was his mentality during the week. He treated every practice like it was a game.”
Defensively, Schermerhorn always was around the ball. He finished with a team-best 73 tackles (28 solos and 45 assists). He had a quarterback sack, two tackles for loss and three interceptions.
On the offensive side of the ball, the 5-foot-8, 160-pound Schermer-horn caught a team-high 38 passes for 478 yards. He also rushed the ball 23 times for 227 yards.
“I told coach (Bob Pieper) that I would do whatever it took to be on the field,” said Schermerhorn. “I let him know that I wanted to go both ways.”
Having Schermerhorn do double duty was a good call by Pieper and his staff. It paid off. The Spartans won the CSL North title
and finished the season with an 8-2 record.
“I think people doubted us this year,” Schermerhorn said. “But we didn’t care. We played for each other.
“I think one of the best things about football is playing with your teammates,” he added. “The guys on this team are close. I grew up with these guys, and I believe in them. We’re lifelong friends.”
Schermerhorn might have played his best game of the season in a Week 10 state playoff loss to visiting Bradley-Bourbonnais 60-59. He caught 11 passes for 140
yards. He also led the team with 10 tackles.
He’s good at changing speeds and changing directions. He flashed those assets on a number of occa-sions in that season finale. He used the entire field on a 35-yard recep-tion late in the first quarter. And he basically repeated those moves on a 32-yard catch late in the second quarter.
“I think that the reason why he plays so fast [on the football field] is that he anticipates things so well,” said Savino. “He’s a student of the game.”
Schermerhorn will bring those
same traits to the baseball field this spring.
“He’s a phenomenal center fielder,” said Savino, who is GBN’s head baseball coach. “He gets a great jump on fly balls. That’s the difference between a good out-fielder and a great outfielder.”
His leadership abilities also play well on both fields.
“He’s outstanding on the field and in the classroom,” Savino said. “He’s a young man with a high character.”
You won’t get an argument from GBN line coach Matt Purdy, a former Big Ten player at the Uni-
versity of Iowa.“Mitch has been a shining light,”
said Purdy. “He’s one of the best captains that we’ve ever had here. He’s a great role model. His parents should be extremely proud of him.”
Schermerhorn wasn’t the only GBN football player to be honored by the CSL. Running back John Clark was the named the North Division Offensive Player of the Year, while Dimitrije Milutinovic was recognized as the Lineman of the Year.
Clark finished the season with 1,578 yards (9.12 average) and 25 touchdowns. He lost only two
fumbles.Milutinovic, a two-way starter
on the line, wound up with 64 tackles. He had three tackles for loss.
The other all-CSL North players included wide receiver/quarterback Nick Karis, quarterback Kevin Burnside, defensive back/wide re-ceiver Alex Bubaris, linebacker Gerry Luc and offensive linemen Joe Levy, Jacob Zatz and Matt Pawlowski.
Burnside, who threw for 439 yards against Bradley-Bourbonnais, completed the season with 1,119 passing yards with nine touch-downs and three interceptions. He also had 395 rushing yards and six TDs.
Karis finished with 544 rushing yards and 147 receiving yards. He scored 12 times.
Luc was second on the team in tackles (71), while Pawlowski had 62 tackles, three sacks and four TFLs. Bubaris ended up with 52 tackles to go along with three in-terceptions.
Glenbrook SouthThe Titans placed five players
on the all-CSL South team: senior tailback Ryan Janczak, senior wide receiver Jack Healy, senior offensive lineman Mario Ramirez, senior two-way lineman Amara Kabba and senior linebacker Ryan McFaul.
Janczak went over 1,000 yards for the second year in a row. He capped the 2015 season with 1,470 yards on 235 carries with 20 touch-downs. During the 2014 campaign, he had 1,060 rushing yards and 16 TDs.
Healy ended up with 59 catches for 841 yards with five TDs.
Kabba finished the season with 46 tackles, while McFaul was in on 51 stops.
BY KEVIN REITERMAN, [email protected]
GOING FULL BLAST Glenbrook North’s Schermerhorn played it to the max on both sides of the ball
‘2’-WAY PLAYER: Glenbrook North’s Mitch Schermerhorn makes a catch during the 2015 season. He was a two-way star for the 8-2 Spartans. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER.
Dom Savino, head baseball coach at Glenbrook North, loves what his ace hurler,
Michael Oh, brings to the team.His numbers pop out. The
6-foot-4, 245-pound senior right-hander went 8-2 with a 1.73 earned run average for the Spartans last
spring.Off the field? Just as good.“Michael has got a team-first
mentality,” said Savino, who guided the GBN to a 29-7 record in 2015. “Everyone on the team benefits from that approach.”
Oh continues to reap rewards.
On Nov. 17, he made things official with Creighton University by signing a national letter of intent.
“He’s an outstanding baseball player,” Savino said. “But he’s an even better young man.
“For him to go to a school of Creighton’s caliber says a lot,” the
coach added. “It’s rewarding for him and his family.”
Oh, who is ranked No. 56 in the Class of 2016 class by the Prep Baseball Report, throws his fastball in the mid-80s. His repertoire also includes a curveball and a change-up.
Oh, who plays his club ball with Top Tier, threw 52 2/3 innings during his junior season with GBN. He featured swing-and-miss stuff. He finished with 69 strikeouts while allowing only 43 hits and 16 walks.
One of his losses last season
came against St. Rita, which was ranked No. 1 in the country at the time.
At Creighton, he will team up with Loyola Academy grad Daniel Woodrow. The junior outfielder hit .281 with 21 steals in 50 starts last spring.
BY KEVIN REITERMAN, [email protected]
Glenbrook North’s Oh inks letter of intent with Creighton
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For Loyola Academy’s Thomas Smart, this was like stretching a routine single into a double.
Without the head-first slide.His snazzy double move caught
everybody in the stadium off guard — especially the Homewood-Flossmoor defensive backfield.
Smart, who doubles as a highly touted baseball player, wound up being totally uncovered in the left corner of the end zone for an 18-yard score with 33 seconds left in the first half.
After the game, the LA senior wideout, who has developed into quite the home-run hitter on the gridiron (11 TD catches), came clean. He touched them all.
Including this:He said the play was an ad lib. Drawn up on the fly.And what did LA offensive
coordinator Tyler Vradenburg say about it? Don’t look at me.
“You’ll have to talk to No. 2 [LA quarterback Emmett Clifford] about that,” said the LA assistant, following the Ramblers thrilling 34-28 come-from-behind victory over visiting Homewood-Floss-moor in a Class 8A state quarter-final matchup on Nov. 14.
The senior QB, winner of the 2015 Chicago Catholic League Blue Division Lawless Award (Player of the Year), drew it up. He went rogue, if you will. He went outside the playbook.
“He called it the whole way,” Vradenburg added. ““I trust Emmett explicitly. He’s as much of a film rat as I am. He’s as a smart as they come.”
Smart, who plays third for the LA baseball team, was very com-plicit in this impromptu play. He made that double move like he was turning two from the hot corner.
It was slick — with a trace of tomfoolery.
H-F’s defensive backs should sue for mal-football-practice.
Smart was not the only one to sell the play. The play’s inventor, Clifford, was Second City acting class brilliant, when he dipped his right shoulder and faked a short pass to Smart.
“Emmett thought they might try and jump the route,” Vraden-burg said.
They jumped the route.Moments later, Clifford floated
a perfect touch pass to his ex-tremely wide-open wideout.
“They were playing very aggres-sively,” said Clifford, who now has completed 156 of 222 passes (70 percent) for 2,161 yards and 31 touchdowns. “It worked out.”
Scoring just before halftime and cutting the lead to 14-12 proved to be critical for LA. More magic from Clifford, Smart and a ton of their teammates proved necessary to keep the Ramblers’ unbeaten record (12-0) intact and advance them to a state semifinal game against host Palatine (10-2) on Nov. 21 (5 p.m.).
LA came up with its most prized possession of the season in the fourth quarter. Trailing 21-19 with after three periods, the Ram-blers put together a 19-play,
97-yard scoring drive. Clifford capped the series by rolling out to his right and flipping a short pass to running back Jack Loper for a 10-yard touchdown with 4:57 left to play.
“We just kept pounding and pounding,” said Vradenburg. “And the kids kept making plays.”
“It was a character-building drive. Unbelievable,” said LA head coach John Holecek. “When we got the ball, I told Tyler (Vraden-burg), ‘How about a 12-minute drive?’ ’’
Close enough. The series lasted seven minutes and one second. The key plays included a couple of QB scrambles by Clifford and a couple of first-down receptions (13 and 27 yards) by Smart.
“That was the most adversity that we’ve had to face this year,” said Smart, who now has a team-
high 47 catches for 639 yards. “We trust one another. We believe in one another.”
Smart, who was named to the all-conference team a few weeks ago, finished the game with six catches for 81 yards. He had missed the two previous state playoff games with a concussion.
“In Thursday’s practice, he had two or three drops in our two-minute drill,” said Holecek. “But today, he returned to his old form.”
With his wide and high catch radius and sure hands, Holecek thought that Smart — 3 catches, 32 yards during the 2014 season — would have a breakout senior season.
“He’s so gifted,” the coach said. “So physically talented.”
Smart has earned the trust of his quarterback.
“He runs crisp routes, and he
can go up and get it,” said Clifford. “He’s a special receiver.”
Vradenburg is sold on No. 86.“I know he’s a baseball guy,” said
the LA assistant. “Baseball is his first love. That’s his passion.”
But Smart has managed to transfer at least part of that passion to football.
“He’s so unassuming and quiet. I can’t get anything [words, sen-tences, or paragraphs] out of him,” Vradenburg added. “But I also know that he likes to shine in the moment. He’s a big-play guy.”
Notable: In its first 11 games this season, Loyola had done something truly remarkable. The Ramblers never trailed. But that streak ended when the Vikings (10-2) went up 7-6 with 5:52 left in the second quarter. In fact, H-F held a 21-12 advantage early in the third quarter.
… “That team has so many home-run hitters. There’s so much talent over there. I knew it was going to take a lot to win this game. I thought it would be a nail-biter,” said LA head coach John Holecek. … LA’s defensive secondary — Bobby Desherow, Sam Taylor, Joey Zitella and Ian Swenson — may have a lost a few battles but it ulti-mately got the job done against 6-foot-2 Kendrick Pryor (9 catches, 169 yards), who has been recruited by the University of Wisconsin. … One of the plays of the day for H-F came later in the third quarter, when Prior caught a 51-yard pass on 2nd-and-41 at the H-F 30-yard line. … LA cornerback Sam Taylor made a play which shouldn’t be forgotten. On the first snap of the fourth quarter, H-F had fourth-and-two at the LA two-yard line. Pryor was targeted by Gray, and he just missed hauling in a leaping pass deep in the end zone. Taylor pushed him out of bounds, and the pass was ruled incomplete. ... LA also ben-efitted from a sack attack. After taking a 27-21 lead with 4:52 left to play, LA’s defensive unit turned up the heat. On consecutive plays, Frank Doherty and Jack Hough shot through and recorded 12-yard sacks. Then, on a fourth-and-32 at the H-F 18, Desherow broke up a long pass intended for Pryor. … LA senior running back Dara Laja was his productive self. He carried the ball 30 times for 144 yards. His six-yard TD run with 1:22 left to play sealed the win. He now has 1,465 rushing yards on the season… This was a comeback game for senior running back Jack Loper (8 carries, 29 yards). He had been sidelined with a left forearm injury, which he sustained in the second game of the season. … Clifford threw for 159 yards (16-23-1) and added 53 rushing yards, including an eight-yard TD run in the second quarter. … LA’s tackle leaders were Graham Repp (9), Anthony Romano (8), Hough (6) and Doherty (5). Doherty had two sacks and one tackle for loss. Desherow also had a sack, while John Shannon had a fumble recovery. … Palatine advanced to the state semifinal after rallying late to beat visiting Marist 28-24 on Nov. 14.
BY KEVIN REITERMAN, [email protected]
PLAYING IT SMART Innovative Ramblers take down highly skilled H-F in state quarterfinal
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FROM BOOMING OPERA TENOR TO RESTAURANTEUR
BY SIMON MURRAY
On an unseasonably warm November evening in Evanston, Jason Balla
ruminated over the first cocktail he had created as new owner of The Stained Glass Bistro. The cocktail, a take on the tradi-tional Pimm’s cup, was inspired, said its creator, from his days at the University of Oxford; spe-cifically during the balmy summer months, when he and friends would lay on the cool grass and enjoy a cool drink, as they watched the rowing team beat back their oars across the languid Thames river.
“I practically called home,” ribbed Balla on coming up with it.
He took a sip from the martini glass; the thinly sliced cucumber inside sliding back and forth like a hockey puck. This did not look like a man who had gone from patron to sole owner of the white-tableclothed, fine-dining staple in little under a year. Where was the stress? The strain of long hours taking a toll? He still had hair.
That’s because Balla is not your average watering hole habitué turned restaurateur. The dap-perly dressed, soft-spoken Welsh-man—who could be found in the restaurant’s sister lounge, The Cellar, most nights enjoying a pint of a beer and a lamb burger—has been a presence on stage for over 20 years with The Lyric Opera of Chicago as a booming tenor.
Said Balla, “When people asked me when I took over last year, What experience have you
had [working in] restaurants?’ I ended up saying, I’ve eaten and drunk at a lot of them.”
Suddenly we were back in Oxford again. An under-graduate organ scholar, it was not unusual for Balla to get “locked in” until four in the morning following a game of squash with friends and the owner of a pub close to campus. “Typical Welshmen, we always kind of like it when we get locked in.”
Sandwiched between a Papa John’s Pizza and a physical therapist office, The Stained Glass seems to buck the casualness and in-formality that has become pervasive in the restau-rant industry—while also conforming to it. On this night, the white tablecloths combined with a light tinkling of piano keys, soft jazz and bouquets of daylil-ies, roses and chrysanthemums on the large, oversized bar, in turn, gave off their own magic.
Shadows danced. The stage was set.
This is all thanks to Balla’s eye for detail. (“In some ways it was also good coming without the baggage of a restaurant back-ground because I had a fresh eye on a lot of things.”) On top of being a full-time contract signer, he also found time (“Egad!” screams literally everyone) to start his own eponymous interior design company. His LinkedIn page reads either like a modern-day renaissance man or an un-hinged workaholic, or both.
“I just get bored too quickly,” admitted Balla. “I can’t see me not doing seven things.”
Three of those things are worth mentioning. Balla was interested at one point in getting his com-mercial pilot’s license and taking a year off to go to flight school. He also passed the Series 7 Fi-nancial Services exam so he could write algorithmic trading strate-gies for a firm in Chicago and Dallas because, he explained,
“That side of my brain needed exercising.”
And just last year he had to walk away from the Chicago Sinai Congregation after 15 years as a singer, accompanist, and Music Director to take the reigns of running a restaurant. His friends aren’t surprised about his new venture—how could they be?—what with dabbling in enough careers to satisfy three lifetimes.
Still, getting into the restau-rant industry may be the hardest thing he’s ever done. Balla de-scribes it as “a million moving parts and dealing with an entire range of people, from the most basic delivery service up to a very high end clientele that have very high expectations—and everyone in between.”
Technically, Balla is still with The Lyric Opera, as he’s on sab-
batical this year. He will have to decide in a few months whether he wants to go back next season. Last year he was
doing both, holding meetings then racing off to performances four or five times a week, making it back at night to make sure everything was running smooth-ly. (It was.) Worlds might collide, however, if Balla brings in opera singers, jazz singers, chamber musicians or Chicago Symphony players to entertain his patrons.
“If you’ve ever been within spitting distance of a fully fledged opera singer that’s [he laughed] going all out—it can be pretty loud,” he said.
But even if he chooses the restaurant life over, say, perform-ing onstage, his interests have already aligned. A self-educated oenophile, The Stained Glass has over 130 wines and the only premier temperature-controlled wine-dispensing system in the city. Many of the wait staff are musicians, artists, and actors. And there is talk—just talk, for now—of placing a performing arts center on this site in the near future.
As we ate, Balla told me had taken a horse-jumping lesson earlier that morning. (Oh yeah, he does that, too.) He came into work around two o’clock with piles of wine boxes in the hall that needed stacking. He was “on the phone with this and trying to fix that” making sure deliveries were going smoothly, talking to the bank and to payroll, the staff came in at four o’clock and by five “it’s lights down and it’s theater.”
Before he would drive to the theater: nowadays, the theater comes to Balla. And that lamb burger and pint of beer now? Said Balla with a wink, “It’s called quality control.”
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things.”—Jason Balla
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS!At this time of year, we'd like to pause and reflect on how appreciative
we are for your business, your friendship and your referrals. Thank you!
As a token of our appreciation, we are making a donation on your behalf to dress and feed children in need for the winter.
We truly treasure you, your family, your home and your investment.But most of all, we treasure our relationship with you.
Wishing you all the joys of this holiday season!
Size doesn’t matter.HAPPY THANKSGIVING
