Sunday Breakfast

Brett Gelman grew up in Highland Park and usually ordered a jumbo char dog, a classic hot dog, and cheese fries at Michael’s. But the comedian/actor/writer, who appeared as Pig Parker in the “Vow of Silence” episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2011, savored something even more than his favorite fare at the iconic restaurant

Rabbi Jacob Rosenberg’s spleen had to be removed five years go. A cyst inside it was threatening to outgrow the fist-sized organ. Blessedly, something else, something soothing, expanded at the same time—the rabbi’s perspective. “All of sudden, day-to-day problems and anxieties, little things, were nothing compared to what was truly important in my life, like

He’s all agog about being a girl dad to an 18-month-old. In January, as a veterinarian and the first chief medical director at Pets4Life in Highland Park, he enthusiastically greeted the first cat and the first dog to enter the full-service pet care center. Right around the same time, he’d heard Billy Corgan, the frontman

Princess Diana once ate all by herself in the corner of a filthy American café. Her waitress’s name was Blanche, who worked for a man named Moe. All of the above? All made up. But this is true: Author and creative writing instructor Bob Boone—the director of Glencoe Study Center since it opened in 1977—has

As a teenager, Benjamin Beilman spent nearly as much time in his family’s car as the gloves in the glove compartment did. The future violin virtuoso attended schools in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for most of the week and—for five consecutive years—commuted to the Music Institute of Chicago for weekend classes. That’s a round trip of

Sidney Wallach enters a spacious meeting room at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital. It’s February 16, a scheduled day for an afternoon treatment. And two days before his birthday. Family members and medical personnel and hospital staffers had gathered there among swaying balloons before the World War II veteran’s arrival. “Happy Birthday!” the beaming folks