Elaine Doremus

Fiesta Friday

Barrington Breakfast Rotary Club’s Fiesta Friday event drew 151 people in February for a fun evening of cocktails, three-course dinner, silent and live auctions, raffle prizes, professional Latin salsa instruction, and dancing to a live band. President-Elect Maria Peterson introduced ShelterBoxUSA, for which $12,000 was raised during the evening, with a total of $37,000 donated

Dancing with the Barrington Stars

BACOA’s highly popular, third annual Dancing with the Barrington Stars fundraiser in February was modeled after the popular television show. The evening featured an entertaining dance competition that matched six Barrington stars with professional dancers from Bataille Academie of the Dance and Inaside Chicago Dance. 360 guests pledged support to their favorite performances of the

Cheers to 50 Years

About 300 parents, teachers, staff, and friends attended Arnett C. Lines Elementary School’s 50th anniversary gala, “Cheers to 50 Years,” to celebrate the schools milestone and raise funds for a new state-of-the-art playground. Attendees enjoyed a special Lines video montage along with sit down dinner and entertainment by Modern Day Romeos. Live auction items, including

One Last Thing

Keith Hanson is Managing Partner at Hanson Law Group and the newly elected 2020 Chairman of the Barrington Area Chamber of Commerce. He considers himself a Badger by birth, education, and culture—spending his formative college and twenty-something years as a newspaper reporter, editor, and stringer for two newspapers on the Madison campus of the University

Country Vs Town: Briana DiTommaso Cardone

Briana DiTommaso Cardone is an Italian/Greek American restaurateur. She and her husband and business partner, Salvatore, are the purveyors of the award winning restaurants, Mambo Italiano Ristorante and Wild Buffalo Italian Gastro Pub, both in the northern suburbs of Chicago. Briana was raised on an Italian vineyard in the Chicago area where she learned the

Living Legacy

In a tiny farmhouse off of Old Sutton Road in Barrington Hills, something was always broken and it was drafty during the winter. There were only two and a half bedrooms, but the Lyon family of seven came out from their home in Chicago and crowded in on weekends. There was something special about that

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