Bill McLean

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.

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

There’s forward thinking and then there’s Alex Ty Kovach thinking. Kovach, who goes by Ty, has been the Lake County Forest Preserve District Executive Director since 2013. He’s not concerned about tomorrow. Or 10 years from now. Try 100 years. “I’m thinking about future generations and my great-great grandchildren,” says the 63-year-old Kovach, who lives

Milton Berle once said, “Laughter is an instant vacation.” If that’s the case, Anna D. Shapiro’s extended break from work began in early August when the Evanstonian and Tony Award-winning director helmed the first rehearsal for the revival of Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, a hilarious farce set for a September 12 to October 27 run