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Winnetka’s East Elm Wine Walk Kick-off Party
The East Elm Business District hosted a preview party announcing its 4th Annual East Elm Wine Walk benefitting Boys Hope Girls Hope of Illinois. The Wine Walk will be held on Saturday, September 22,...
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Band with Ryan — heady stuff
Taite Ryan settles on 35 for the number of headbands she owns. A teammate of the New Trier senior volleyball player had guessed 45, while walking past Ryan with several other teammates, after the end...
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Kindness Counts
Crow Island School in Winnetka got a chance to “pay it forward” this summer. CROW HOPPING: Crow Island School students at play in a classroom with new furniture from VS America. The string of kindness...
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Passport and Passing Shots
Barcelona’s “Michigan Avenue” is Passeig de Gràcia. Ask Claudia Miller all about it, the one who compared it to Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. The North Shore Country Day School sophomore-to-be and tennis...
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Winnetka Children’s Fair: Winnetka Community …
Fans of WCNS celebrated the school’s 73rd anniversary during its annual fair at Village Park. Kids of all ages soaked up the picture-perfect weather and participated in arcade games, pony and camel...
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Major fascino at Mino’s
Winnetka hot spot offers a “full service” Italian dining experience If you’ve taken a solemn vow — as I did when I was a knee-high bambino — to eat as much Italian food as your piggy bank can muster,...
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7th Annual Gather for the Gift
Gift of Adoption hosted its seventh annual signature event, Gather for the Gift, at the Four Seasons Hotel Chicago. Nearly 500 guests gathered to raise funds to help the nonprofit reach its goal of...
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GEM DANDY
Two or three times a year, for 30 years, jewelry makers Aaron Macsai and Frances Kite exhibited their wares at the same regional art fairs. Macsai specializes in intricate, delicate metalwork, and Kite...
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Save the Date: Book Signing with Rocky Wirtz
OCTOBER 10 WHERE: Maze Home, 735 Elm Street, Winnetka WHEN: 5 to 8 p.m. Cindy Galvin’s Maze Home will host Chicago Blackhawks owner and Winnetka resident Rocky Wirtz for a book signing of “The...
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Winnetka Music Festival
Attendees from the Chicago-area reveled in amazing music on the North Shore over Father’s Day weekend. Known for its Emerging Artist Showcase, this home-grown festival returned for its second year with...
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Rise Up
The 4th annual Winnetka East Elm Wine Walk on Sunday, September 22 is a win-win for everyone involved. Attendees get the opportunity to stroll from shop to shop in downtown Winnetka, taste wines,...
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A Place To Heal
In Hebrew, selah is defined as the act of pausing, resting or reflecting. Put it together with the word “freedom” and it becomes even more powerful — particularly when it comes to helping young women...
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Back to the … past
Beat Street recently relocated to the Winnetka Walk complex. North Shore old-timers often wax nostalgic about hanging out at soda fountains, dime stores and penny arcades. They had such options in the...
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Opening Their Homes — And Hearts
Israeli children (blue shirts) spent part of their summertime with North Shore families. They had lost either a parent or a sibling who had served as a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces. Day Four...
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Cooking Maven Owns Recipe for Vibrant Writing
Mary Jo McMillin knew she wanted to work in a commercial kitchen. She wrote letters to professionals in the industry, hoping the words would sing her passion for cooking and thereby move each reader....
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94th Annual Art-in-Bloom: The North Shore Art …
ANNE MCNERNEY, LINDA NELSON Photography by Larry Miller North Shore artists and floral designers joined forces for a nine-day exhibition at The Winnetka Community House celebrating The North Shore Art...
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‘Channel’-ing Her Endurance
Marcia Cleveland ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY BLITT Marcia Cleveland’s parents, Bob and Carolyn, had a watertight reason for teaching a nearly 2-year-old Marcia how to swim. They got tired of retrieving their...
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Trendy Blend
Antiques + Modernism Show co-chairs Cindy Monnig, of Winnetka, and Annie Challenger, of Northfield. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER Gone are the days when a living room would be furnished with...
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East Elm Wine Walk
MARTHA IDLER, TOM BOYLE, DEB MCMAHON, RACHAEL MANN Photography by Larry Miller The merchants on East Elm Street in Winnetka hosted the fourth annual East Elm Wine Walk benefitting Boys Hope Girls Hope...
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Mentalist ‘minds’ your business
Christopher Carter PHOTOGRAPHY BY LORRAINE RYAN Christopher Carter is coming to Winnetka — and he’s ready to BLOW. YOUR. MIND. The well-known Chicago-based illusionist, mind reader and mentalist will...
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