‘When the economy goes south circulation goes up,” says Kay Grabbe, Lake Forest’s librarian, where overall traffic has increased 33 percent from last year. Reflecting trends seen across the country, North Shore library use has reached record levels this year according to statistics gathered by the North Sub- urban Library System. Here is a sampling […]
With few exceptions, I’ve had long hair all my life. And I’ve loved it. But when a former colleague of mine from the Chicago Sun-Times lopped off her hair for Locks of Love, it resonated. I had long hair. There was someone else out there, a child, who could use it. A very altruistic thought, […]
The past year has been tough on local businesses, but these three female-owned North Shore companies have done more than survive the storm; they’ve thrived. The woman entrepreneurs share some common traits—a passionate belief in their products, dedication to their customers, and an incredible work ethic.Their successes bring much-needed sunshine to an economic climate that, […]
In February of 2009, Julie Schaffner suddenly began to feel so tired that she could barely drive herself home from work.
At a soccer practice. At work. On vacation. No one ever knows when or where tragedy is going to strike. But it does. And North Shore women are strong when it comes to coping with crises. Time after time, they come together to support one another and go to incredible lengths to get through […]
“It never dawned on me how much it would hurt,” Pamela Haschke of Arlington Heights says of losing her hair during her battle with a virulent form of breast cancer. She says it felt like pin pricks all over her head as the hair separated from the follicles. Her greatest comfort during that time was […]
Going from the big business, adult-only world of being an international tax attorney to crawling around on the floor with a camera making monkey sounds for children is one scenario Julie Floyd never imagined for herself fifteen years ago. Floyd, the photographer who founded and owns Classic Kids Photography, followed her passion when she […]
In this season of giving we want you to meet Chloe, a brave and remarkable little girl from Winnetka, whose incredible story of charity in the midst of adversity captures the spirit of the holidays like no other we have read. Here it is, as told by her father Jim Sawma: Treatment day is […]
Just before a girl’s trip in February of 2005, Susan Kauffman noticed a tremor in her right hand.
When Diane Mayer’s husband, Dick, the former CEO of Kraft, retired, it seemed like they would finally have more time to spend together and to do all the things they had wanted to do for so long, including traveling more, spending time at their winter home in Boca Grande, Fla., and enjoying their grandchildren, Eady […]
