Bill McLean

RECIPE FOR HOPE

The North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic—founded by Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering—celebrates its 10th anniversary. In 2020, Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering was unted by the presence of a second and silent pandemic—a spike in the rate of domestic violence during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Houses, sanctuaries to most during the worldwide sread of a new

PLOTS THICKEN

Lake Forest Place’s gregarious green thumb and garden committee chair, Patrick Cosgrove, now tends to his eight garden plots—up from four last year— at the senior living community. Any gardener worth their soil likes to get dirty—literally, not verbally. Lake Forest Place (LFP) resident Patrick Cosgrove was 3 and living near Wrigley Field when he

DAY IN THE LIFE: KAMILA GLOWACKI

EDUCATOR/ARTIST/MUSICIAN KAMILA GLOWACKI THRIVES IN HER TRIO OF FIELDS How Kamila Glowacki found the time to Field questions from Country, we’ll never know. The super-busy, impossibly industrious, 33-year-old serves the Krannert Art Museum (KAM) in Champaign as its assistant curator of community learning and engagement; creates all kinds of artwork (drawings, paintings, posters, prints, sculptures,

TOP RUNG

Go ahead, call Andy Rick a hero. The 17-year veteran of the Lake Forest Fire Department will thank you but he’ll also kindly disagree with you. “Some calls turned into cool stories,” recalls Rick, sworn in as chief of the department in January after serving it as a firefighter/paramedic, lieutenant, battalion chief, and deputy chief.

GIVING COUSINS

The philanthropy baton is in good hands with siblings Charlie and John Fleming. Their cousins James and Katie Gildersleeve of Lake Forest handed it to them earlier this year. “Our cousins built an amazing foundation, and we are excited to continue the mission while add- ing new ideas and our personal touch to connect local

THE RIDES OF HER LIFE

More than six decades ago, Juanita Wood Kennedy’s cousin babysat for a woman who lived near the ocean in Massachusetts. It led to Kennedy’s lifelong passion for sitting—in the saddle. “The woman was eccentric and owned two Arabian horses, one named Flame and the other Sieme,” recalls Kennedy, now 76 and a Barrington Hills resident

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