Bill McLean

THAT’S PAINTER-TAINMENT

Ever wondered what you’d get if you crossed a pair of expert painters with two storytelling comrades? You’d get Ravinia District residents and longtime friends Joe Bednarski and Phil Gayter in an art gallery before a rapt and excited audience, creating paintings while exchanging gentle gibes and inviting attendees to participate in their delightful journey

BOUNTE ON HIS MIND

Steve Sinclair was 4 years old and sitting on the living room floor when he played with a Fisher Price toy phone for the first time. Seconds later, after rotating the spring-loaded dial clockwise, he attacked the phone. “I had to,” recalls the 52-year-old Sinclair, who grew up in Winnetka. “I had to take it

RUN TO GLORY

Nearly two decades before running and placing second in his age group at the 2024 Pumpkin Chase 5K in Lake Bluff, Phillip Howell—then Student Ministries Pastor of Calvary Bible Church in Bourbonnais—delivered his first sermon. “Running the race,” he says, referring to the theme of his address that had nothing to do with passing other

GLASA HALF FULL—AND THEN SOME

Cindy Housner was a Milwaukee Public Schools employee when she first worked with adaptive athlete Jean Driscoll in the 1980s. Driscoll, a high school student at the time, competed as a wheelchair racer. “I watched her race a few times, and someone came up to me and said, ‘You know, she’s really good,’” Housner recalls.

SPOOKY STORIES

Former Lake Bluff Village engineer George Russell probably braces himself every even numbered year around this time when he’s anywhere near Lake Bluff Ghost Walk Co-chair Kraig Moreland. Moreland likes to think big while putting the popular Lake Bluff History Museum event together with fearless co-chair Cathy McKechney, and he counts on the reliable Russell

FROM HARROWING TO HEARTENING

Nearly three years ago, while researching for her novel The Goddess of Warsaw, author and Deerfield resident Lisa Barr visited the home of Holocaust survivor Estelle Glaser Laughlin. “She lived 10 minutes away from me,” says Barr, whose grandmother survived the Holocaust. “As she opened her front door and we looked at each other, we

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