One of this summer’s oddest suburban dramas has ended peacefully: After a few months at odds with the City of Glencoe’s liquor licensing process, Cibo Trattoria has finally been granted their license, and their full bar is now open. For a while there was uncertainty about whether they would remain open; it’s hard to compete […]
Betsy Leibson, longtime Glencoe resident, planned to cut down some common buckthorn along the Green Bay Trail four years ago. What started as short-term goal for her and several friends turned into an established organization called Friends of the Green Bay Trail. The group works to create a natural, healthy environment by removing invasive species such […]
New finishes and a fabulous addition completely transformed this ’50s-era split-level home in Glencoe. “I walked in and felt like I could breathe,” says Nancy Newberger of her ‘50s-era home in Glencoe. Newberger bought the split-level two years after she and her husband divorced. While the house was dated and smaller than she envisioned, Newberger loved its midcentury architecture and light-filled rooms, and she […]
When Glencoe’s Writers Theatre wanted to make a statement with their brand-new theater, they turned to hot commodity Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang Architects in Chicago.
Glencoe designer Missie Bender helps this North Shore family marry their antique pieces and modern furnishings in high style. Good design is a powerful thing, a point confirmed during my recent visit to Jon and Betsy Tilkemeier’s four-bedroom mid-century ranch home in Glencoe with the couple’s interior designer, Missie Bender. The Tilkemeier’s youngest son, Charlie, […]
If there’s one thing that Glencoe resident Missie Bender has learned in her nearly two decades designing interiors, it’s the importance of listening. Listening to her gut instinct, to her clients and even to the house itself, which has a message from the original designer encoded in its geometry and architectural details. “I didn’t tell this […]
A great neighborhood is hard to define, and wonderful to find. Neighborhoods aren’t legally described geographic locations, like towns; rather, they are a subjective combination of the geographic and the psychological. By intuition and common consensus, people just agree that an area with shared traits is a neighborhood. Shared Great Traits Experts do agree on […]
Here is a way you can honor Black History Month: read about African Americans growing up on the North Shore. During a Dr. King celebration in January at St. Paul AME Church in Glencoe, author Robert Sideman received an award recognizing his book “African Americans in Glencoe, The Little Migration.” Sideman has lived in […]
Haven Youth Services has moved to a new location in Wilmette. After a recent flood, Haven was forced to move into temporary offices. Subsequently, Haven found a new place to call home. From left: Connie Berman, board member, Betsy fitzgerald, board member, Stuart Kraus Kopf, Haven board President, Dee-dee Block, Executive Director of Haven, […]
Your curfew isn’t the only one your teen needs to obey. If your 16- or 17-year-old has been enjoying the summer lifestyle – staying out late at the pool, the movies or wherever – be advised to remind him or her about local driving curfews. If a teen gets caught driving in the wee […]
