For the past seven years, Jennifer Sobecki has been the executive director of Designs for Dignity, an organization that provides pro bono interior design services and in-kind donations to nonprofits that otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford to spruce up their spaces. The organization works with eight to 10 nonprofits annually and celebrated its 10-year […]
Fundraising—an activity consisting of equal parts of excitement and anxiety.
To say that we had fun picking our Best Dressed Women of 2010 is an understatement, indeed.
“My children are the loves of my life!” Highland Park’s beautiful, blue-eyed Eileen Bennin beams as she shows me photos of her sons, Stephen and Howard, as blond, bright-eyed toddlers.
More than 300 top young athletes from around the country arrived at Deerfield and Lake Forest High Schools in July to compete for medals and beat their personal bests. But unlike most athletic competitions, the participants were all significantly physically or visually disabled. The event, hosted and organized by the Lake Forest-based Great Lakes Adaptive […]
On the football field, 17-year-old Loyola Academy senior Alex Amato looks like your average high school quarterback—athletic, broad-shouldered and square-jawed. But off the field, this varsity quarterback is working to make his community better in a way that makes him stand out. Alex, of Evanston and oldest of four, launched CHOICE Chicago—a not-for-profit that recycles […]
The Evanston Health Department recently completed its second year of its Women Out Walking (WOW) program. Building upon the success and support of 500 women from the first year, the 2010 initiative saw approximately 1100 women participating in this community health initiative—more than double the previous year. The goal of this program is to encourage […]
As a young Jewish girl, Anya Cordell read The Diary of Anne Frank, and wondered whether she would have had the same kind of courage as the people who helped the Frank family hide during the Holocaust. Many years later, Cordell proved to herself that she could follow, in her small way, in the footsteps […]
The Julia Child of Japan lives in Evanston. Constance Chang taught Japan about Chinese food, just like Julia Child taught America about French food. Chang is now 93-years old and lives in The Mather, where she retired to be near her three children and grandchildren, but when she was a restaurant owner, television chef […]
Since high school, when she drove a white Chevrolet Caprice, Becky Kennington has been in love with cars. “For a girl, I know it’s kind of weird,” says Kennington, of Skokie. So two years ago, when a fellow car enthusiast invited her to take her butternut 1966 Caprice to a small local car show, she […]
