Supporting our local schools and businesses was so much easier before the Internet upended traditional retail and communication practices. Back in the day, shopping local epitomized convenience and community. Social networking meant visiting in person or volunteering. We didn’t average 8.2 hours per day on phones and in front of screens. One strong newspaper […]
YWCA Evanston/North Shore hosted their fifth annual YWomen Leadership Awards Benefit on October 3. At the event, they honored several remarkable individuals and organizations for their commitment to women’s empowerment, racial equality and social change in front of an audience of more than 400 people. The first honoree, Alice Tregay, began her work against […]
The Junior League of Chicago (JLC) has promoted voluntarism and the potential of women in the community since it was founded 100 years ago. When Lucy McCormick Blair Linn and twelve of her friends founded JLC in 1912, their first projects addressed the problems that women were having in the workplace. Their very first […]
With gas prices pushing $5 a gallon in the Chicago area, Earth Day is a great time to start teaching your children the importance of conservation and care for the planet. Celebrated on April 22 this year, Earth Day began in the 1970s in Wisconsin as a simple “teach-in” day. By 1990, it was […]
Terri Lorenz’s philanthropy has always centered around families and children. In 2005, she and her husband, Tony, noticed that family summer gatherings in Wilmette tended to center on the lakefront, with little going on in their neighborhood farther west. Wanting to provide summer entertainment that families could walk to, they started the annual Thornwood […]
The Justin Wynn Fund, which has been making a difference in the lives of Evanston and Skokie kids for 23 years through its youth leadership program, was awarded a grant of more than $40,000 from the Woman’s Club of Evanston recently. Named after Justin Wynn, who drowned at the age of 9 when he was […]
“Theater is a living, moving art,” says Susie McMonagle, the Evanston actress who is starring in the Chicago production of “Billy Elliot.” “It’s a collaborative work of art; that’s what I love about it,” she says. And the theater loves McMonagle right back. She is “Mum” in “Billy Elliot,” which is a great tear-jerker […]
Harvey Pranian wanted to give back his neighborhood. He realized, after all, that his clientele in Evanston and the surrounding area was supporting his art and antique business.
North Shore School of Dance (NSSD) has been an integral part of the North Shore community for more than 35 years, and Lisa Gold has been choreographing its moves for the past two decades. The school has grown from 85 students and one studio to 1,000 students and six studios, in Highland Park and […]
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 […]
