Sunday Breakfast

Lori Consadori Lucchetti’s favorite example of the American spirit played out warmly after Winnetkan and philanthropist Ann Balusek read a Chicago Tribune feature about political refugee Ahlam Al-Jebory. Al-Jebory had arrived in the Chicago area in 2008 following a harrowing ordeal in her native Iraq and later in Syria. She fled her country after being

Imagine living with a certain medical condition and making 180 more decisions each day about your health than someone without that condition. Diabetes research conducted at Stanford University reported that startling finding. Thirteen-year-old Lake Bluff resident Edgar Kelley doesn’t have to envision such an arduous day. He was 11 when he was diagnosed with type

Movies and popcorn. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Wimbledon and strawberries and cream. Fantastic tandems, for sure. Then there’s the pairing of the Lake Bluff Farmers Market and Kathleen “Gridley” Swanton. This one takes the halo in any match-made-in-heaven contest. “I’m the lady you’ll see under the flowered tent at our Lake Bluff Farmers Market,”

In 2016, at the age of 52, Kenilworth native and longtime standup comedian/improv teacher Jimmy Carrane lost his father to pulmonary fibrosis, got attacked while standing on a pew and delivering an unwanted eulogy at the ensuing funeral, and became a first-time father. It wan an eventful year for Carrane to say the least, filled

There might not be a North Shore 10-year-old who knows what perseverance looks like better than Emma Weinlader does. She has watched her father, Wilmette resident and serial entrepreneur John Weinlader, embody the admirable personality trait for years. Her daddy, an avid platform tennis player, and his older brother, Dan, recently launched Volley, the first

Caren Miller was only 8 when her beloved mother, Beezie, died at the age of 29. But what the mother passed down to her daughter continues to impact lives positively decades later. “My mother gave me the gift of art,” Miller, a lifelong art teacher who grew up in Skokie, says from her seat at