Bob Koonz, Retired New Trier Teacher
Robert (Bob) Allen Koonz passed away on Monday, February 1st, 2016, at Evanston Hospital. Bob was born on February, 21, 1941, in Chicago, IL, son of Carl and Gladys Koonz. After graduating from Downers...
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HIGHLAND PARK – The city’s Character Counts Steering Committee is currently accepting nominations for the 2016 Robert Barnard Character Counts Awards. These awards recognize and honor students,...
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Know Any Amazing Young Women?
Rep. Dold with 2015 Distinguished Young Women Award recipients Applications are open for the spring session of the Tenth District Young Women’s Leadership Academy, which will focus on women in...
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Keating Crown Named D-39 ‘Distinguished …
Keating Crown WILMETTE – The District 39 Educational Foundation of Wilmette has chosen alumnus Keating Crown for its ninth annual Distinguished Citizen Award, recognizing him as a passionate leader...
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Opinion: Educator Supports D-112 Referendum
All too often educational initiatives fail to meet the needs of students. They fail to yield results because policymakers and educators implement antiquated policies aimed at educating the past...
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Opinion: D-112 Referendum = Big Con
Perhaps it’s time to step back from the details of the D-112 re-configuration and see it for the vanity project that it is. The Board and its administration have spent, over a two-year period, an...
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HP Names 100 Projects For 2016
HIGHLAND PARK – The City of Highland Park created a list of 100 projects to work on outside of its daily operations in 2016. The projects will include city branding efforts, renovation of the Highland...
View ArticleLB Parks Board Has Opening
LAKE BLUFF – The Lake Bluff Board of Commissioners is accepting applications to fill one vacant position. Commissioner Kevin Considine’s resignation was effective January 25, 2016. The term ends May...
View ArticleOrigins of the Jewish North Shore
HIGHLAND PARK – Why did many in Chicago’s Jewish community choose to move to Highland Park? The answer lies in the city’s appeal as a summer resort area. In 1900, the extended Foreman family (Foreman,...
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Trustee Questions Building Use Policy
Glenview’s Village Hall and the Police Station are now contained in one building. Photo courtesy of Village of Glenview. GLENVIEW — Before Glenview Village Trustee Phillip O’C. White could vote for...
View ArticlePost 510 Seeks Boy’s & Girl’s …
LAKE BLUFF – Lake Bluff’s American Legion Post 510 is seeking candidates for Illinois Boy’s State and Illinois Girl’s State 2016. The Post will sponsor 10 delegates from Lake Bluff to take part in the...
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Classmates Remember Meaghan Collins
Meaghan Collins as a senior at Regina Dominican High School in Wilmette. Photo courtesy of Regina Dominican High School. NORTHBROOK — Ten members of the Regina Dominican High School class of 1996...
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Classmates Remember Meaghan Collins
Meaghan Collins as a senior at Regina Dominican High School in Wilmette. Photo courtesy of Regina Dominican High School. NORTHBROOK — Ten members of the Regina Dominican High School class of 1996...
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SportsFolio: Playing at the Next Level
Top senior athletes — class of 2016 — from The North Shore Weekend/Daily North Shore area will be playing at the next level. Here is the list (so far): Baseball Glenbrook North’s Michael Oh Glenbrook...
View ArticleValentino Biondi
Valentino Biondi, 81, of Highland Park, IL passed away peacefully on February 5, 2016. Beloved husband to Neia and the late Mary; loving father of Roger (Joanne) Biondi and Julie (Bill) May; cherished...
View ArticleJoan Berger
Joan Berger, nee Gold, age 85. Beloved wife of the late Samuel. Cherished mother of Jeff (Judy) Berger and Mike Berger. Devoted aunt of Terri Victor and Wendy Funk. Dear sister of the late Marlene...
View ArticleBurglar Encountered 11-year-old Girl
WILMETTE – The Wilmette Police Department is investigating a burglary that occurred, Friday Feb. 5t at 7:40 a.m. in the 1500 block of Forest. An unknown offender entered a home by removing a screen and...
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Sunday Breakfast: Beyond the Bottom Line
Tom Tropp waits for his oatmeal and English muffin to arrive at Egg Harbor Café in Lake Forest. His audience of one waits for the same fare. Tropp has a story to tell. It is a how-I-met-my-future-wife...
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The Purple Sprout Café Provides Fantastic Vegan …
Irina Kuznetsova was having horrible postpartum depression after giving birth to her first child. “I went completely nuts,” she said on a recent afternoon. “I thought I was dying—I developed all kinds...
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Winnetka’s Three Godfathers
One of the wealthiest towns in Illinois, Winnetka, is shaped by three Christians who sympathized with socialism, including one who defended an anarchist act of terrorism. Woodsy Winnetka—the name meant...
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