Sheridan Road, June/July 2018

NORTH SHORE STYLE & SUBSTANCE

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Best Lincoln Park block! This charming and sun-filled single family home is surprisingly large inside with an addition that added wonderful space and made for a fabulous kitchen-great room. Living & dining rooms feel like classic Chicago vintage w/ charming pocket doors, stone fireplaces, shutters and millwork. Large white kitchen w/ ample cabinetry, large breakfast bar and all stainless appliances. 3 generous beds on second level, including the master suite, which has a fab closet/ dressing room. The lower level o ers a great rec or play space & allows for plenty of room for expansion & potential to build out.

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Fabulous resale of a new construction home on an A+ Lincoln Park Block! Every detail is perfect & the layout is fab! The chef’s grade kitchen has top-end appliances, an oversized marble island, butler’s pantry, built-in work space & banquette. Super sunny great room w/ mudroom area & access to the back yard/patio. Three ensuite beds on second level, including the fab master suite w/ terrace, large closet & spa-esque bath. The penthouse level is a true retreat w/ wet bar & nano doors opening to the newly built roof deck for true indoor/ outdoor living. Spiral staircase to tip-top roof deck w/ 360 degree city views.

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Live on an extra-wide, 30’ Lincoln Park lot on a sensational block! This impeccably designed home o ers spacious and sunny living w/ incredible design & style. The main level includes an open living and dining space as well as a gorgeous white kitchen w/ an additional eat-in area, 3 beds on second level, including the luxe master suite w/ amazing closet space & a beautiful marble bath. The penthouse level is a true bonus, o ering a spacious o ce or bedroom with a full bath and 2 decks. The finished lower level features a media and recreational space, 2 guest bedrooms, a full bath, plus a wine cellar and wet bar.

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Features

THE CUBS HAT THAT COULD

Abby Wood’s old blue Cubs hat is more than lucky: It’s an emblem of hope, perseverance, and survival in the ght against cancer.

HAPPY AND HEALTHY

e Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern University is a leader in changing the way people think about health and wellness—and summer is a great time to explore how the center can help you transform your mind, body, and spirit.

WINNETKA REVITALIZED

e Ho mann formula—buy, redevelop, and rejuvenate—brings new life to downtowns.

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EDITOR’S NOTE

THIS MONTH I WILL BE

Dive into the season with the debut of our Summer Issue. e cover image combines two of my favorite summertime things—glamorous summer soirees and pool days!

READING

e issue’s features explore those signature spaces of summer—baseball diamonds, pool decks, downtown sidewalks—with a nod to healthy living. In our rst feature, Abby Wood describes how her love of baseball sustained her through her cancer journey. Diagnosed with stage IV Hodgkin lymphoma while a junior at Princeton University, Wood found great comfort in her

ATTENDING

Allendale’s “Drinks

lucky Cubs hat.

As summer living often equates to healthy living, our second feature is especially timely. Glencoe’s Karen Malkin shares her life-changing work with the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern University. Finally, Winnetka’s Greg Ho mann of Ho mann Commercial Real Estate details his plan to draw people away from their screens and back into local downtowns.

Teen introduces Highland Park’s Sami Fabric, who recently ran a marathon to raise funds for the Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation. is endeavor was especially meaningful as Fabric’s mother, Toni, is currently ghting the disease.

Swapping running shoes for golf shoes, Links highlights the 2018 Constellation SENIOR PLAYERS PGA Tour hosted by Exmoor Country Club in July—the rst time a major senior championship has been held in the Chicago area since 1997. Leaving a top-rated course for the best on the arts scene, Art & Artist curates the cultural must-sees of the summer. Karena Garriques—a busy mom of four—shares her passion for the Venus de Miles race and philanthropy in Trending. Getting o the bike and on the road, Glencoe native and famed journalist Rich Cohen explores the towns around Lake Michigan in Travel Diary. Leaving the lake behind for an exquisitely appointed pool deck, Home Tour showcases the stunning outdoor area of Shelley Johnstone Paschke’s Lake Forest home. e extraordinarily talented designer and hostess shares her favorite tips for outdoor entertaining. We close with Parting Words from Greta Wall. As Wall once spent her summer days as a lifeguard on Kenilworth Beach, she shares sage advice learned from the chair.

I wish you all a summer full of fun, adventure, and a bit of mischief.

Dustin O’Regan dustin@jwcmedia.com

& Dressage” at Tempel Farms

Second Bloom by Cathy B Graham

WEARING

Caroline Abram sunglasses from Blink Optical in Lake Forest

RECALLING

Our magical tour of Peru

Etro runway collection. Photograph courtesy of neapolitan collection

Rich Cohen and sons circumnavigate Lake Michigan

FURNISH YOUR DREAMS. Our Annual Home Accents Sale

Better bedrooms inspire sweeter dreams. So shop in June and save 20-40 % on furnishings and accessories by Kindel, Arteriors, Redford House, Palacek, Bungalow 5, and more.

INSIDER

FINDS, OPINIONS, OBSESSIONS

Your guide to the latest on people, places, and things on the North Shore

A Lipizzan with rider. The Tempel Lipizzans—the largest privately owned herd of Lipizzans in the world—celebrate 60 years.

SAVE the DATE

EDITED BY KEMMIE RYAN

JUNE 24 & 25

LURIE CHILDREN’S PRO AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP AND DINNER ON THE BLUFF

WHERE: June 24 at Shoreacres; June 25 at Onwentsia Club

WHEN: Dinner at 6 p.m. on June 24; Tee Times begin at 7 a.m. on June 25

TICKETS: Starting at $375 is two-day fundraising event begins with an elegant dinner and cocktail party at Shoreacres bringing together nearly 500 corporate and civic leaders, golfers, hospital leadership, physicians, and Founders’ Board members. Monday morning begins the 58th annual golf championship featuring amateur foursomes paired with golf professionals from 50 of the top-rated, most prestigious private country clubs in the nation competing for prizes. luriechildrens.org/proam

JUNE 29

DRINKS & DRESSAGE, DINNER AT THE STABLES

WHERE: Tempel Farms

WHEN: 6 p.m.

TICKETS: $250 per individual; $1,800 for a table of 8

Allendale Shelter Club invites guests for its 2nd annual evening on the farm, beginning with a stroll through the Old Mill Creek stables and cocktails, an exclusive Lipizzan performance, a seated dinner at sunset, and after dinner drinks in the lounge. allendaleshelterclub.org/ tempel-farms-june-29th-2018/

JULY 4

LAKE FOREST FESTIVAL & FIREWORKS

WHERE: Deerpath Community Park

WHEN: 5 to 10 p.m.

TICKETS: Begin at $15 for LF/ LB residents; $20 for non-residents

Spend the Independence Day holiday supporting local programs made possible by the Lake Forest Parks and Recreation Department. e family-friendly evening will include food and drinks, live entertainment by Classic Rock bands 97Nine and Hairball, and concluding with a spectacular rework display. friendso akeforestparksandrec.weebly. com/festival-and- reworks.html

JULY 8

YEA! HIGHLAND PARK

BENEFIT CONCERT

WHERE: Ravinia Festival

WHEN: 8 p.m.

TICKETS: Begin at $125

Join YEA! Highland Park for its 21st annual concert featuring entertainment by Buddy Guy and Jonny Lang in preparation for the November Benet Grant Awards. All proceeds bene t youth, education, arts, and social service programs in Highland Park and Highwood. yeahp.org/tickets.html

JULY 9

CRADLE CLASSIC

WHERE: Glen View Club, Golf

WHEN: 10 a.m. golf check-in; 5 p.m. reception

TICKETS: $600 golf and dinner;

$100 dinner only

Enjoy a round of hitting the links, dinner, cocktails, and more at this annual event supporting e Cradle. Don’t miss your opportunity to bid on a one-of-a-kind autographed bag by Rory McIlroy. cradle.org/golf

JULY 11-15

CONSTELLATION SENIOR PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP

WHERE: Exmoor Country Club, Highland Park

TICKETS: $18 practice round; Starting at $35 for general admission (Children 16 and under admitted free when accompanied by an adult–limit 4 per adult)

Conducted by PGA TOUR Champions and the Western Golf Association, the event will feature a roster of the TOUR

Sheridan Road provides the North Shore’s comprehensive social calendar to see what’s doing and who’s doing it.

June 29 Drinks & Dressage, Dinner at the Stables.

Photography by Nan Stein

Champions’ top stars, including Bernhard Langer, Colin Montgomerie, Kenny Perry, Sandy Lyle, Jerry Kelly, David Toms, Larry Mize, Mark Brooks, Bob Tway, and 2017 champion Scott McCarron. Proceeds from the event will bene t ve Chicago and North Shorebased charities. cspgolf.com

JULY 13

ZOO BALL 2018 | ZOOBILEE: CELEBRATING 150 YEARS

WHERE: Lincoln Park Zoo

WHEN: 6:30 pm

TICKETS: Pricing starts at $850 per individual e Women’s Board of Lincoln Park Zoo will host its annual Zoo Ball, the zoo’s largest fundraising event of the year. emed “Zoobilee,” this year’s event will honor Lincoln Park Zoo’s 150-year-long commitment to connecting people with nature as it sets the tone for future support of this beloved institution. lpzooball.org

JULY 14

CIRQUE DE CITADEL

WHERE: Lincolnshire Marriott

WHEN: 6 p.m.

TICKETS: $195 early bird rate

Inspired by the vibrant, exciting cabarets of Paris, France, Citadel eatre injects jaw-dropping spectacle into the Northshore with its fth annual summer gala entitled Cirque de Citadel. Guests will thrill as magicians, stilt walkers and contortionists perform feats of wonder and awe set amid a multi-colored, sparkling feast for the eyes. citadeltheatre.org/gala

JULY 15

RAVINIA’S WOMEN’S BOARD

ANNUAL GALA EVENING

WHERE: Ravinia grounds

WHEN: 5 p.m.

TICKETS: Starting at $750

Ravinia’s Annual Gala Evening, hosted by the Women’s Board and featuring Audra McDonald and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is the only per-

formance fundraiser beneting Ravinia and REACH* TEACH*PLAY education programs. Annually, these programs engage more than 85,000 students and community members in interactive, free musical opportunities throughout the Chicago Public Schools and Chicagoland. ravinia.org/pagegalabene t

JULY 21

LAKE BLUFF BIKE RACE & BLOCK PARTY

WHERE: Downtown Lake Blu

WHEN: 9 a.m. races begin; 4 p.m. block-party Northwestern Medicine sponsors this heart-pounding bike race, which is a part of the USA Cycling’s National Criterium Calendar. Don’t miss the worldclass pro racers before celebrating at the village-wide block party. lakeblu criterium.com

JULY 21

CAPSTONE GALA

WHERE: e Westin Chicago

North Shore, Wheeling

WHEN: 5:30 to 10 p.m.

TICKETS: $300

Ducks Unlimited, the world’s leader in wetlands and waterfowl conservation has chosen Northern Illinois for its Capstone gala. is event celebrates the culmination of years of e ort to create a $2 billion conservation endowment. is event will draw a national audience of VIPS and is expected to raise millions of dollars. ducks.org/illinois/events

JULY 29

BLOODY MARY FEST

WHERE: Everts Park

WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

TICKETS: Free admission; drink tickets available for purchase e Midwest’s best mixologists shake up their take on the Bloody Mary at this year’s festival. More than 15 vendors will compete for the coveted titles of Judges’ Choice, People’s Choice, and more. celebratehighwood.org

July 11-15 Constellation SENIOR PLAYERS Championship, Exmoor Country Club

SERENA & LILY

Inspirational lifestyle and home décor brand SERENA & LILY is opening their rst Design Shop in the Midwest. e 4,000 plus square foot Lincoln Park space o ers an artful collection for the inspired home with fresh sophistication and a breezy, coastal aesthetic.

e Chicago Design Shop will o er samples of every style from Serena & Lily’s signature bedding, original textiles, wallpaper, rug collections, and a curated collection of furniture, lighting, outdoor furniture, upholstery and décor selected speci cally for the Chicago community. Summer Shopping—check! Serena & Lily is located at 853 W. Armitage Avenue in Chicago, 773-435-6036.

EQUESTRIAN DRESSAGE

THE TEMPEL LIPIZZANS celebrate their 60th anniversary as the world’s largest, privately owned herd of Lipizzan horses known for exquisite performances of equestrian dressage—a live program of synchronized movements, athleticism and harmony between horse and rider set to classical music. e 2018 Tempel Lipizzans’ summer season kicks-o on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 17 at 1:00 p.m. with performances through September 2 on select Sundays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at Tempel Farms in Old Mill Creek, Illinois. For more information, visit tempelfarms.com.

Sweet

e Asheville Bee Charmer Cookbook: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by 28 Honey Varietals and Blends is Wilmette’s Chef CARRIE SCHLOSS’ one-of-a-kind cookbook dedicated entirely to honey. From cool cocktails, small bites, dinner or desserts, the 130 recipes are delicious and will appeal to foodies, busy moms, healthy cooks and more. Schloss replaces re ned sugar with a variety of honeys to keep her recipes healthy and delicious for parents looking for good sweet treats. Available at e Book Stall in Winnetka and at Amazon.com.

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Running Toward HOPE

WORDS BY ALICE YORK PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBIN SUBAR

The ght against pancreatic cancer has a champion in Highland Park’s Samantha Fabric. With nearly 94 percent of patients dying within a mere ve years of diagnosis, pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of all major cancers. Teaming up with the renowned Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation, Fabric, now 20, became laser-focused on making a di erence after her mother’s diagnosis last year. Raising nearly $70,000 through her participation in the Austin Marathon, Fabric ran side-by-side with the foundation’s president, Jim Rolfe, toward the organization’s mission to “serve as a catalyst for the early detection and ultimate cure of pancreatic cancer.” Founded in 1999 in Highland Park in honor of Michael Rolfe’s losing battle with the disease, the foundation has raised over $6,000,000, providing funding for pancreatic cancer research and resources to patients and their loved ones.

Fabric graciously took time from her busy schedule at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is majoring in early childhood education, to chat with us about her family, her work with the Rolfe Foundation, and her journey to the nish line.

Tell us about your mother’s diagnosis and the impact it had on your family.

When something happens to me that most people decide to call

one of their friends about, I call my mom—she’s my built-in best friend. So when she was diagnosed at the end of August 2017, which happened to be my rst day of classes for the fall semester, it was a major shock. She is young, only 48, and has lived an extremely healthy and active life—I couldn’t even keep up with her at SoulCycle!

But my family has handled this situation with extreme strength and optimism. Although this diagnosis has been devastating, it has brought us even closer and made us stronger than ever. We are all extremely lucky to have an amazing support system to help us through this time.

How did you decide to run the marathon?

I have never been an ‘athlete.’ But in February of 2016, I decided to run the Austin Half-Marathon because I wanted to accomplish something I found impossible before I entered my twenties. People told me I was nuts and wouldn’t end up sticking to it because prior to this, I couldn’t even run 4 miles, but I was driven. It was an amazing experience, and once I nished, I said to myself, ‘I’m going to run a marathon one day.’ I didn’t expect that day to be so soon, but I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.

Since I was unable to be home with my mom to help take care of her each day, I wanted to help in a way I knew how. I decided to train for the Austin Marathon as a way to cope with what was going on around me. No matter where I was or what was happening, I could always control putting one foot in front of the other.

I wanted to put my body through the hardest thing I could in order to try to understand a little bit of what my mom was putting her body through each and every day. roughout her sickness, she has always pushed herself to do and feel better. I wanted to push myself alongside her.

How did you join forces with the Rolfe Foundation and decide to turn your marathon into a mission?

I decided to raise money for the Rolfe Foundation in hopes of raising awareness, advancing research for early detection, increasing resources available to patients, and hoping to one day nd a cure. ey were extremely helpful. Jim [Rolfe] donated directly to my team and later decided that he and his family would like to come down to support me! He and I ran the rst eight miles of the marathon together—it was very fun!

My original goal was $10,000, which I quickly surpassed, raising a total of $69,122 with the help of friends and family. Crossing that nish line was the greatest moment I have ever experienced.

To learn more about the Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation, visit rolfefoundation.org.

Sami Fabric

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SUMMER CYCLING A

e best of the North Shore’s bike trails.

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h, the joy of biking—its simple, fun, can be social and is great exercise! A sport for everyone—from toddlers on trikes to seniors on recumbent cycles—and every skill level—from weekend riders to professional racers. North Shore bikers are lucky to be able to choose between a wide variety of trails suitable for any summer adventure. So, grab a helmet and try one or all this summer!

Family Fun-Middlefork Savanna Forest Preserve, Lake Forest is large preserve on Lake Forest’s west side o ers a 4.5-mile bike path winding through a mix of savannas and woodlands. e newly renovated bridge leads over the Metra tracks and grants access to Townline Community Park. Proximity to Elawa Farm and the Wildlife Discovery Center makes this trail the ideal starting point for a day of family fun.

Bird Lovers-Prairie Wolf Slough, Highland Park

Twenty acres of majestic wet prairie, wetland, and oak woodlands make up the Prairie Wolf Slough, which features a at 1.75-mile

trail for easy biking. is beautiful space resulted from the combined e orts of Lake County Forest Preserves and various communities to restore the limited wetlands in the 1990s. With the help of hundreds of spirited children and adults, the eld was salvaged to save space for native species. Lucky riders may encounter Cedar Waxwings, Great Egrets, and Indigo Buntings.

Ride and Splash-Skokie Lagoons, Glencoe

ree paved trails extending 13 miles wind around Glencoe’s Skokie Lagoons taking bikers past some of Cook County’s nest shing areas. For adventurous bikers, the preserve also contains gravel trails. Looking for a post-bike activity? e lagoons provide an exceptional space for canoeing, kayaking, sailing, or rowing.

Group Riders-Harms Woods, Glenview

e Chicago River divides this two hundred and fty-acre preserve. e shaded North Branch Trail on the east side of the river is perfect for a calm or energetic bike ride. Follow its 12 miles of paved trails all the way to the Skokie Lagoons. e site’s shaded picnic groves and large mowed elds provide great options for post-ride celebrations.

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Middlefork Savanna. Photography courtesy of Je Goldberg

Middlefork Savannah. Photography courtesy of Lake County Forest Preserve

A Rich Tradition OF GOLF

WORDS BY ELAINE DOREMUS / PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF EXMOOR COUNTRY CLUB

This year’s PGA TOUR Champions players are in for a thrill and a challenge when they tee o at the classically designed, Scottish-style Donald Ross golf course at Exmoor Country Club on July 12. Many of the best senior players on the circuit will participate in what promises to be a spectator-rich and exciting four-day event culminating on the scenic 18th hole at Exmoor in Highland Park.

“Exmoor’s golf course has a historic pedigree that exempli es the Golden Age of golf architecture,” says Don Holton, o cial club historian and member for 31 years. Established in 1896, Exmoor is the third oldest golf course in Illinois, one of the 11 charter clubs that established the Western Golf Association (WGA) in 1899, and one of just seven WGA founding clubs remaining.

e course was originally designed as a 9-hole course by golf course architects with rst-hand experience in Scotland: Charles B. Macdonald, Herbert J. Tweedie, and H. J. Whigham. In 1908, Scotsman Stewart Gardner designed the 18-hole layout at Ex-

moor. en, in 1915, the club commissioned architect Donald J. Ross, a native of Scotland and considered the “dean” of golf course architecture, to redesign the course to resemble a classic Scottish-style course with natural grasses and open vistas, and elevate it to a new level of championship quality.

Over the years, the course underwent many changes. In 2003, Exmoor brought in golf architect, Ron Prichard, to oversee a signi cant restoration to bring back the design features and character that were lost over the years. “Prichard restored it to the vision of Donald Ross,” says Sandy Stevenson, tournament General Chairman at Exmoor. “By removing trees, opening up vistas, and restoring bunkers, Prichard was able to bring back a Scottish look with the classic character and playability introduced by Ross.”

e quality of the course is one of the many reasons the PGA TOUR Champions selected Exmoor for the upcoming Constellation championship, one of the ve Major tournaments on the TOUR Champions. e tournament has visited some of the best venues on the East Coast, with stops at Baltimore Country Club,

e historic Exmoor Country Club hosts its rst major PGA TOUR Champions golf tournament when the 2018 Constellation SENIOR PLAYERS Championship comes to the North Shore July 12 to 15.

Westchester Country Club, Fox Chapel Golf Club, and Philadelphia Cricket Club’s famed Wissahickon Course. e 2018 event will be managed by the WGA in partnership with the PGA TOUR’s Championship Management division.

“It will be an ideal test for the Champions,” adds Stevenson. “At any one time, the PGA TOUR has any number of courses on their roster of hot lists. Exmoor’s experience hosting the 2012 Western Amateur, with 250 member volunteers, was also a plus for Exmoor. We were told we were selected because we have a great golf course and great facilities. e two often don’t go together.”

Being selected by the PGA TOUR Champions to host a major championship is one thing, but accepting the invitation is another. It was no small decision for the Exmoor board to agree to undertake an event of this magnitude. While it will be the 18th national championship for both women’s and men’s golf hosted at the club, all previous tournaments held at Exmoor promoted amateur golf with top players from all over the world. is is the very rst professional tournament Exmoor has ever hosted.

“We were delighted to be selected and proud to be part of an exciting local sporting event bene tting local charities,” says Stevenson. “ is is a major event on the PGA TOUR that is organized and run by the WGA.” A tournament of this stature and magnitude will require upwards of 1,000 volunteers to make the tournament a success. Many of these volunteers will come from the ranks of Exmoor members with additional opportunities available to others interested in participating.

“It will be exciting for our members to see the pros play our course—how far they hit the balls, how they play the greens,” adds Stevenson. “Our par 3 and par 4 holes are some of the strongest holes on the course. ey are both picturesque and challenging, with some tough shots to di cult pins. As the nal groups come up to the 18th fairway with pavilions and spectators in background, they’ll approach the green with our classic clubhouse and its majestic columns beyond. It’s a great nishing hole without a doubt.”

Most of the PGA TOUR Champions playing at Exmoor in July are familiar names to area golfers. One local player is former PGA Champion, Je Sluman, formerly of Hinsdale and now a resident of Florida and Chicago. Defending champion of the 2017 Constellation SENIOR PLAYERS Championship, Scott McCarron, counts six other PGA TOUR victories to his name. He’ll be up against some tough competition with Bernhard Langer, three-time Constellation SENIOR PLAYERS champion from 2014 to 2016. Other notable players con rmed include Jay Haas, John Daly, Kenny Perry, Colin Montgomerie, Sandy Lyle, Jerry Kelly, Kevin Sutherland, David Toms, and Joe Durant.

Constellation Energy, the tournament’s primary sponsor, will donate $500,000 to local charities. One such charity is the Evans Scholar Foundation, founded by golf great Chick Evans, winner of eight Western Amateur championships and the U.S. Open, and member of Exmoor dating back to 1909. e fund has been providing scholarships to caddies with limited access to college since 1930.

“Exmoor has been deeply ingrained in the game of golf, and we have a proud history of supporting golf,” says Stevenson. “Hosting this championship is one more step in giving back, and showing respect for the origins of game in the 1800s to today, when these Champions are coming out to help give back. It’s a nice size tournament for us. Players are so relaxed and love to interact with spectators, making the event truly fun to watch.”

Exmoor Country Club is located at 700 Vine Avenue in Highland Park. For more information and tickets, visit cspgolf.com.

HOW THE PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS PREPARE

Bernhard Langer (Terry Holt, Caddie)

“We’ll play at least two practice rounds from the very rst tee to the last green. e yardage books will help us with the distance from the sprinkler heads to the green, so that we know exactly how far we have on every shot after we get the pin positions. During practice rounds, I look at where I want to place my tee shot, what I want to avoid, such as water hazards and bunkers, and get comfortable with the greens, grasses and the sand in the bunkers, which will be very di erent from those in Florida where I live. e way the greens slope is extremely important since I would much rather have an uphill than downhill putt. We’ll create a game plan on how to attack every hole and what I think is the best way to play the golf course.”

Scott McCarron (Rich Mayo, Caddie)

“We’ll look at the aerial maps ahead of time and play our practice rounds. Rich will walk the course, chart all the greens, and read the greens with a method called Aimpoint that charts every 5 yards. During the practice rounds, I’ll determine where the trouble is o a tee; where can cut o a bunker or a dog leg to put ourselves at the best angle to come into the green; gure out where the straight putts are on every green. We’ll look at the weather for that week, and we’ll have a contingency plan and adjust—for the wind, or if the course plays fast or is wet. We’ll also talk to the head pro and the greens keeper to nd out where are the low areas, the high areas, the slopes, and if there are any big valleys.”

Je Sluman

(Doug Lloyd, Caddie)

“Everybody prepares di erently. I’ll probably go out ahead of the o cial practice rounds, and play the course a couple of times in solitude. Doug will chart the course; I’ll get his opinion and we’ll talk strategy on how to play certain holes. You can over-analyze the situation, but golf has a way of rearing its ugly head. Ultimately, it all depends on how your are playing during the tournament, regardless of the golf course.”

FASHION & BEAUTY

FRESH, WARM TEXTURES

e summer season is about pale warm hues, light tting fabrics and unique textures.

EDITED BY JESSICA PILARSKI

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WHO WORE IT WHEN, WHERE, AND WONDERFULLY

Sheridan Road delivers the season’s inspired looks—worn by you— as seen on the North Shore.

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CULTURE & ARTS

THE NORTH SHORE’S MOST CREATIVE PURSUITS

SPLASH OF COLOR

YOUR CURATED GUIDE TO THE SUMMER ART SCENE

John Singer Sargent. The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy, 1907. The Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art Collection

The SIGHTS and SOUNDS of SUMMER

Sheridan Road’s arts and culture selects for the season.

WORDS BY ALICE YORK

RAGDALE RING PERFORMANCE SERIES

Ragdale,

1260 North Green Bay Road, Lake Forest

June 13, July 11, August 15, September 15

Kicking o their 6th annual series of oneof-a-kind open-air performances curated by Ragdale resident artists in cooperation with their creative colleagues is Jonas Friddle and his blend of storytelling with folk harmonies on June 13. Art and artists of the African Diaspora, short-form puppetry, and interactive dance culminate the series in the Ragdale Ring, an outdoor theatre space reinvented yearly by a new artist, architect, or designer. ragdale.org

2018 LAKESIDE PAVILION FREE OUTDOOR SUMMER SERIES

McAninch Arts Center, 425 Fawell Blvd., College of DuPage (COD), Glen Ellyn

July 12 to August 10

With a ursday evening Family Movie Series, featuring Willy Wonka and e Lion King, a Friday evening Pop Music Series with everything from an acclaimed Beatles tribute band to the New Philharmonic, and a ursday evening WDCB Live Jazz Concert Series, including Chicago Jazz Orchestra, there is something for everyone at the MAC’s outdoor summer series. Seating for evening events begins at 6 p.m. and parking is always free. At eMAC.org

JOHN SINGER SARGENT AND CHICAGO’S GILDED AGE

Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago

July 1 to September 30

Arguably the most important portrait artist of his generation on both sides of e Pond, John Singer Sargent rst showed at the Art Institute in 1890. With numerous exhibitions thereafter, Sargent formed a lasting relationship with the museum, one celebrated in this examination of his many connections between the artist and his patrons, his creative circle, and with Chicago itself. artic.edu

OTOBONG NKANGA: TO DIG A HOLE THAT COLLAPSES AGAIN

MCA Chicago

220 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago rough September 2

Nigeria-born, Antwerp-based artist Otobong Nkanga explores the relationship between Africa and the Western world within the larger picture of the nature of colonialism itself. rough performance, installation, drawing, and photography, all with a particular emphasis on natural resources and raw minerals and how they are capitalized upon, Nkanga creates a vibrant anthropological narrative in her rst ever U.S. survey exhibition. mcachicago.org

WHERE THE CHILDREN SLEEP

Illinois Holocaust Museum, 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie

rough September 16

In a moving exhibition by award-winning Swedish photographer Magnus Wennman, viewers are brought face to face with the con ict in Syria and the uncertain future so many of the country’s children face. rough this powerful imagery, those aficted—over 480,000 lives lost and millions forced to ee—are transformed into more than just statistics. ilholocaustmuseum.org

2018 CSO RESIDENCY AT RAVINIA

Ravinia,

418 Sheridan Road, Highland Park

From July 12 to August 19

Since 1936, Ravinia has hosted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in its summer residency. is summer 15 diverse programs, from classical (Beethoven and Tchaikovsky) to cinematic (E.T. and Indiana Jones), symphonies, scores, and operatic overtures will ll the air. And at $25 a ticket, there is no better time to take advantage of these word-class performances on the green. ravinia.org

EVANSTON MADE

Evanston Arts Center, 1717 Central Street, Evanston

From June 1 to 30

is annual celebration showcases Evanston creatives throughout the month of June through events, studio tours, pop-up galleries, and children’s programming. With the beautiful Evanston Arts Center as home base, this festive focus on local art takes you across the city to museums, workshops, and businesses for a complete immersion and insider’s look into its art scene. evanstonartscenter.org, evanstonmade.com

Otobong Nkanga. Social Consequences IV: Avaritia. MCA Chicago as part of To Dig a Hole that Collapses Again exhibition

John Singer Sargent. Mrs. George Swinton (Elizabeth Ebsworth), 1897. The Art Institute of Chicago, Wirt D. Walker Collection

SUMMER ON STAGE

WORDS BY ALICE YORK

arating adaptation of Alice Walker’s acclaimed novel that conquered Broadway is taking on Chicago. Its Grammy Award-winning score breathes new life into this revival described by e New York Times as a “glory to behold.” (July 17-29, broadwayinchicago.org)

Chicago Shakespeare eatre’s hotly anticipated Macbeth reveals an inspiring North Shore connection. New Trier student and budding young actor Reilly Oh of Wilmette makes his CST debut in this thrilling update of the Bard’s famed tale of ambition, dark magic, and murder directed by Teller of Penn & Teller fame and Aaron Posner. ( rough June 24; chicagoshakes.com)

Jules Verne’s epic tale of peril in the vast ocean, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, has hit the stage at Lookingglass eatre. Now in its 30th season, Lookingglass productions have become known for their physicality, inventiveness, and creative staging— this world premiere production directed by Ensemble Member David Kersnar will surely deliver unparalleled adventure. ( rough August 19; lookingglasstheatre.org)

From puppets trying to nd their purpose in the witty Tony Award-winning Avenue Q to a celebration of the iconic music and legendary female singers of the 1960s in Beehive, Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights has an eccentrically entertaining and utterly unique summer lineup. (Avenue Q: through June 30; Beehive: July 12 – August 26; metropolisarts.com)

Blink and you’ll miss the very limited run of e Color Purple at Oriental eatre. Directed by Tony-winner John Doyle, the exhil-

Steppenwolf has two enticing options on the menu this summer. “ e search for beauty in desperate circumstances,” Guards at the Taj mixes bold humor with deep emotion against the backdrop of India in 1648. Ensemble member Amy Morton directs. Capping o its 2017-18 season is e Roommate, a comedy of female friendship and midlife challenges brought to life by the formidable Phylicia Rashad as director. (Guards at the Taj: through July 22; e Roommate: June 21 – August 6; steppenwolf.org)

ose interested in the history of our fair city should ock to eater Wit for Lost & Found Productions’ Burnham’s Dream: e White City. Celebrating the 125th anniversary of the 1893 World’s Fair, this lively musical traces Burnham’s “journey from an ambitious promoter to a visionary urban designer.” (June 1–July 1, theaterwit.org)

Catch it before it closes: Oakbrook Terrace’s Drury Lane eatre winds down its run of South Paci c this month. A family-friendly production, recommended for ages 10 and up. is landmark Rogers & Hammerstein musical is sure to delight. ( rough June 17; drurylanetheatre.com)

Let this guide direct you to the hottest tickets from city to shore and from bloodthirsty kings to seafaring captains.

Macbeth

20,000 Leagues

Under the Sea

The Color Purple

Guards at the Taj

South Pacific

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PURPLE REIGN

On July 21, Greenhouse Scholars will host its 7th annual Venus de Miles event in Lake Forest. As Illinois’ rst and largest all-women bike (or run) event, Venus de Miles brings women together for sisterhood, community, and a great time! With a choice of a 25 or 64 mile bike ride or 5k run and a nish line festival—philanthropy never felt so good! Greenhouse Scholars provides scholarship, mentorship, leadership training, and more to high-performing, under-resourced students in college. In her 3rd year as an ambassador for this event, KARENA GARRIQUES shares how she stays on trend.

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IN HER EARBUDS

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FOOD & TRAVEL

Taste of SUMMER

From red hot recipes and local eateries to a father-son travel diary, here is an insider’s take on the best of local cuisine and weekend travel

Zucchini Herbed Ricotta Flatbread as featured in Addie Gundry’s The Lighten Up Cookbook: 103 Easy SlimmedDown Favorites for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Everyone Will Love.

KINSHIP

WORDS BY PETER AND KATE MICHAEL / PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBIN SUBAR

If you can scrounge up three bucks and the courage to order a sh nugget in mixed company, I can introduce you to the tastiest two-bite morsel in town.

Technically, the good folks behind Kinship, which sits in the rotunda at the base of 1603 Orrington in Evanston, refer to their delightful nibble as a “chicken-fried scallop shooter,” a nod to the elemental pleasures of tipping back shot glasses lled with slippery oysters or liquid shrimp cocktails.

Fortunately, this “scallop shooter” is vertical and solid, and when it arrives at your table—nestled atop raw fennel and below a swirl of lemon aioli dappled with cumin, cabbage slaw and a salsa fresca—it’s a showstopper.

Our bite was positioned in the middle of a black plate ecked with tiny white lines that radiated out from its center in an explosion of concentric circles. is is plating designed to convey a message. “What you’re going to bite into here,” the kitchen seemed to be telling us, “is going to detonate upon impact.”

And to my surprise it delivered with a bang. Crunchy yet delicate. Meaty and briny with cold hints of licorice from the fennel. And a creamy acidic punch from the aioli and cabbage.

Why rhapsodize, one might wonder, over a tiny snack? Because that little scallop exempli es precisely how Kinship hopes to carefully walk the tightrope between approachability and sophistication.

First and foremost, owners Carey Cooper and Gail Taggert realize that looks matter. Gone is the carrot-meets-rutabaga color scheme that characterized the space’s former tenant, Lyfe Kitchen.

A stylish dining room and global menu nds common ground between elegance and approachability.

Chicken Fried Scallop Shooter

Tuna Tataki

In its place walls are sheathed in deep midnight blues, maroon banquets curl around the room, and cozy camel-hued leather line a welcoming bar.

Imagine the mise-en-scène from Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks re-imagined for the modern age and you’ll get the sense of what’s to come.

Instead of trying to hide the restaurant’s crescent-moon shaped oor plan, Cooper and Taggert have embraced it. ere are so many di erent geometric patterns here—empty picture frames, blocky wire-framed xtures, and gorgeous circular wall sconces that beam halos of light against the wall—you almost expect someone might slip you a trigonometry test before the wine list comes around.

Oh, but it’s dazzling inside. All this soft light shines down and refracts o the round carrera marble tables and the dark gray ooring until the shadows and light swirl and dance through the room like a cup of co ee getting lled with fresh cream.

Kinship’s inaugural menu seeks to nd a similar balance between simple American classics (roasted chicken, let mignon, lobster bisque) and more robust staples from around the globe (spicy ai curry bowls, Moroccan lamb burgers, lobster cavatelli). ere’s little doubt that Vernon Hills-born chef Marco Bahena’s travels—stops in France, Spain, Nantucket, and at Everest in downtown Chicago—informed the menu.

Some of his presentations are canvas-worthy, especially his tuna tataki. ick slices of raw tuna topped with bits of watermelon radish and edamame, are fanned around a central well of ginger-lime marinade as if it were an edible ower in bloom. And even something as simple as a mixed green salad with hearth-roasted chicken and tahini-miso dressing is brightened by thick curls of orange and pink carrots that wind through greens like silky ribbons.

Tried and true entrees deliver the best value, especially an inexpensive hanger steak red in the house’s Woodstone oven. e beef gets topped with a horseradish gremolata that swaps out parsley in favor of arugula to highlight the slightly spicy green’s subtle undercurrent of black pepper.

You can’t go wrong with the house’s simple salmon either, which is glazed in a miso-mirin sauce that’s not cloyingly sweet

and bolstered by pickled kumquats and crunchy kale akes. Just make sure you save room for dessert, which aims to ensure éclairs return to their former glory. Kinship’s éclair tasting—you choose three out of ve revolving options—is a must, especially if you order my personal favorite: Kinship’s lemon-meringue which is whipped up with an inspired spoonful of tart yogurt. (Fortunately the next-door market, Next of Kin, sells these as well.)

Add an order of apple strudel, which is topped with a neutralizing crème fraîche, and you’ll be sugared up enough to become an Evanston Nighthawk in your own right.

Kinship is located at 625 Davis Street in Evanston, 847-563-8242, kinship.restaurant.

COCKTAILS

COMMON SENSE

Gin

Pinot sage kombucha

Simple syrup

Lime

Kinship is such a fan of oakaged Marin kombucha (fermented tea) that it’s served on tap, which gets spiked with some gin for a funky twist on a gin gimlet.

BITTER

Vodka

CHICK

St. Germain

Lemon

Angostura bitters

Soda oat

In a menu teeming with spice and rich global avors, this subtly avored cocktail, leaning on bitters and a subtle spring-like elder ower liquor, is the perfect combination.

Miso-Mirin Fresh Atlantic Salmon

Eclairs

ZUCCHINI HERBED RICOTTA FLATBREAD

Sheridan Road’s Foodie Linda Sterckel sat down with Chef Addie Gundry to taste her savory atbread. Gundry—receiving her master’s degree in culinary arts at Auguste Esco er in Avignon, France—has worked with many greats including Christian Etienne, Daniel Boulud, and Martha Stewart. In 2015 she won Food Network’s Cutthroat Kitchen and recently debuted her newest cookbook e Lighten Up Cookbook: 103 Easy Slimmed-Down Favorites for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Everyone Will Love. Try Gundry’s picnic-perfect atbread this summer.

CRUST

For summer ease, use pre-made dough (available at Bake 425).

TOPPING

1 cup halved multi-color cherry tomatoes

1 tablespoon olive oil

Salt and pepper

1 cup ricotta cheese

1 1/2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil

1 tablespoon 2% milk

1/2 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

2 cloves of garlic, minced

1/2 zucchini, sliced

3–4 ounces goat cheese

Preheat oven to 400°F

In a medium bowl, toss the halved cherry tomatoes with 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil and a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Spread onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet and bake for about 20 minutes until blistered and roasted. Set aside.

Turn oven up to 475°F

In a medium bowl, whisk the ricotta, basil, milk, lemon juice, and garlic together. Add salt and pepper to taste. Set aside.

Punch the dough down to release any air. Use a rolling pin to shape the dough until it is ¼-inch thick. Carefully transfer dough to your baking sheet and drizzle with 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil. Spread with ricotta mixture, add zucchini slices and tomatoes, and top with goat cheese crumble.

Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until the crust and toppings are browned to your liking. Remove from the oven and sprinkle with salt and pepper.

RECIPE BY ADDIE GUNDRY

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBIN SUBAR

Lake Forest’s Linda Sterckel and Addie Gundry

Zucchini Herbed Ricotta Flatbread

Serves 2

TRAVEL DIARY

Homage to the Lake

Rich Cohen—a Glencoe native, best selling author, and contributing editor to Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone magazines—shared the “inland sea” of his youth with his three sons on a journey around Lake Michigan. Cohen has given us permission to reprint this story originally published in e New York Times—in honor of summer and fathers everywhere.

WORDS BY RICH COHEN

We left to the south and returned from the north. In doing so, we ful lled the grandest dream of Magellan, the dream of circumnavigation. Our compass was GPS and our logic was simple. If we kept the lake always on our left and traveled continuously, we would eventually reach the place from which we started—Chicago, with its seismic chart of skyscrapers, protracted sunsets and canyon-like streets, closing the circle by visiting every beach and port on the greatest lake of all, Michigan.

I grew up in Glencoe about a mile from the shore. To me, the lake was as mysterious as a biblical abyss. Had you asked, when I was 10, what was on the other side, I would have said Paris, or possibly China. When I was 12, my dream was to lace up my Bauer Supremes some winter day and skate clear to the distant shore.

Only later, when I learned that such an expedition would almost surely end in an excruciating death, was that dream supplanted by the more sensible notion of going all the way around and seeing from every side the great body of water that dominates the life of those who live within rock-skipping distance.

For a long time, I forgot such fantasies, moved east and sought relief from the brutal summers and succession of days on the Atlantic, as guilt-ridden by the solace of sea spray and breaking waves as a cheating husband. When I told the woman who was to become my wife that I, too, grew up on the beach, she laughed: “Lake Michigan? at’s not the beach!” I burned with fury but said nothing.

Only in the last few years, as I’ve come to realize my children are growing up as Easterners, woefully unaware of the geography and vastness of our inland seas, has the old dream returned. us, nearing 47, with my children, three boys spread across the early and middle grades—I’d give their ages, but, like the odometer in my car, they keep changing—I knew I had to return to the place where I started. When friends asked where I was going, I said simply, “I’m going all the way around.”

THE CITY

Chicago is the capital of Lake Michigan. As Naples sits above stony Mediterranean beaches, Chicago commands the southwestern shores of the big water. It began as a point of transit, a passage from the lake to the big river farther west, the Mississippi, which French explorers believed emptied into the Sea of

Japan. In this way, Chicago, which was a wigwam village and became a fort and then a boomtown, was once seen as a kind of Paci c port, our rst California.

We stayed at the Drake, an old hotel set in the S-curve of Lake Shore Drive that commands the best views of the shore. Every window in our corner room was like a highball glass lled to the brim. e lake is bluer than the ocean. at surprises visitors — that particular shade, like the blue of airmail envelopes, as well as the sea gulls, ships and churning tides. A trip around the lake should begin here, in its great city, which uses the lake as a bu er and a frame.

Like any great port, it faces the sea. To understand it, you therefore have to go to the beach, and Chicago has Oak Street Beach, the best urban beach in the world. It sits at the edge of the cityscape, jutting like a ash of tongue, a soft place amid all that concrete and steel. e sand itself is as crowded as the sand in a Gidget movie. ere’s a changing house where a lifeguard dozes, probably sleeping o a spree, and, out on the lake, rafts and buoys and a pumping station that delivers drinking water to the area.

To really know the lake, though, you’ve got to get in it over your head. You enter across a bed of sharp rocks—an imperfection that illuminates the perfection of the whole. e water is very clear

and very cold. As you go under, the air leaves your body. Unless it’s August or September, when the water temperature climbs into the low 80s, your skin takes on a bluish tint. You swim out, not as buoyant as in a salt sea, but energized.

In America, we call it fresh water. Elsewhere, it’s sweet-water, which seems more accurate. Fifty yards out, you turn and look back. e city looms like a thunderhead. e Hancock building stands above the rest, a massive obelisk crossed by huge supports. It was the world’s sixth tallest when I was a child, but now, mostly because of Abu Dhabi’s busy hands, is out of the top 20. e Hancock’s observation deck is where you go for the wide angle. e western windows show why Chicago was the birth place of the skyscraper. e grassland prairie is so punishingly at, with roads going on forever, it makes sense that the people in town would build their own heights, mountains, overlooks. From the northern windows, you see the shore and the village where I grew up, as well as Wrigley Field and the Baha’i Temple in Wilmette. In the south, you see factories, smoke stacks, haze. But the big picture is east. It’s water. And water and water and water. You strain to see the other side but never will. It’s 75 miles across from Chicago to Michigan, and close to a thousand miles around.

SOUTH SHORE

ere is a designated route called the Circle Tour. Now and then, you see a sign that says you are on it. But, in the way of the early French explorers Marquette and Joliet, we preferred to cut our own path and headed out early one morning, windows open, Little Walter on the radio, “Boom, Boom, Out Go the Lights.” We drove in and out of buildings, over the river, emerging onto Lake Shore Drive, which we followed south. I-55 to I-90 East.

Beyond the last tall building, the country turns gray, oily. Tough little neighborhoods, the streets lined with bungalows and two-family houses, front porches, steel awnings. e Chicago vocational school, where Dick Butkus and Juwan Howard played high school ball.

As you reach the southern side of the lake—the deep end of the teardrop—and turn east, you enter a land of ash and coal, grain elevators, chimneys that burp up showers of sparks or just spew. At the end of every sad street, a playground and a factory, the engine of the city, nether regions and pump room. Factories line the lake shore, sucking up and polluting its water. e freighters come and go, the machines, trucks. is landscape scared me when I was a child.

e south shore has been tidied up, but before the Clean Air Act it was almost unbearable, an apocalyptic landscape dwelled on by chroniclers of the city, Bellow and Roth, because here you had the ip side of the dream. North Side and South Side. Skyscraper and grain elevator. Lake shore and slaughterhouse. Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park. Chicago is multifaceted, made up of innumerable stories and populations, but it really has just two sides— front and back.

e land opens up beyond Michigan City, Indiana; the sky turns blue. ere is still evidence of the machine— atbeds hauling cable, billboards posing a persistent question, “Been in a wreck?”—but there is a softness in the air, a suggestion of beach.

We reached Benton Harbor in the afternoon, the road making a somewhat depressing entry into what had been a smart town.

e Victorian houses that line the avenues have been allowed to dilapidate. Ivy crawls over the columns, broken windows glitter.

e town seems half artists’ colony, half ruin, the stores along main street boarded, empty. We stopped at a restaurant called the Mason Jar Cafe, a homey place with stu ed French toast and the best lemonade, then continued across the St. Joseph River to Benton Harbor’s “twin city,” St. Joseph.

If St. Joe and Benton Harbor are twins, it’s of the fraternal variety. Just like that, you go from blight into a perfect beach town of cobblestone streets, candy stores and what my mother would recognize as tchotchke shops. is divide (the only thing separating the municipalities is a small river and a police force) mirrors the divide in the region as a whole, the line that runs across the industrial Midwest. According to recent data from the United States Census Bureau, the median household income in Benton Harbor, which is close to 90 percent black, was just over $18,000.

e median household income in St. Joseph, which is nearly 90 percent white, was over $50,000.

St. Joseph was founded in the 19th century as a port on the way to Chicago and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as a vacation land for fat cats from across the lake. Early last century, it boasted a Coney Island-like fantasyland that gured in millions of summer dreams. (“I stuck around the amusement park at Silver Beach, where the cars of the Ferris wheel were covered, getting blackened, and I got soaked through my rain coat,” Saul Bellow writes in e Adventures of Augie March.)

e park closed nearly 50 years ago, but the beach is still there, the concession stands, fountains and waterfront, which presented

my rst opportunity to stare across the water to where I knew Chicago had to be.

e beaches on this side are broader, without the band of rocks that punish Illinois bathers. We have stony prairie; they have westerly breezes and towering dunes, huge undulations that begin in Indiana and continue all the way north. ey’re a relic of an age when the lakes were bigger. In the dunes, you’re walking on what had been sea oor, and the world here feels beautiful and new.

LUDINGTON

e shores of the lakes were charted by French missionaries in the 17th century. ese were the rst Europeans to see the region and most were priests, traveling by canoe. In school they told us how these men entered the wilderness with little more than the Bible, how they built missions and towns. We did not memorize their names, but could recognize them if the exam was multiple choice: LaSalle, Nicolet, Joliet.

Jacques Marquette was my favorite. Born in Laon, France, in 1637, he was a Jesuit by 20 and was explaining the Trinity in the New World by 30. He mapped the frontier in a series of expeditions that stand as the greatest road trip in American history—before Jim and Huck on the raft, before Dean and Sal in the Hudson, before my family and me in the rented Ford Explorer, Marquette and Joliet were setting out from St. Ignace (now part of Michigan) in canoes.

Following the coast of the lake, they reached Green Bay, then continued, via a network of small rivers, to the Mississippi, which they traveled not quite to the Gulf of Mexico. In the end, they covered close to a thousand miles. Marquette got dysentery on this trip, and never really recovered. His ensuing days were lled with sojourns in which he held up, waiting out a bad spell. One of these was spent near the site of modern Chicago and another on the eastern shore of the lake, a mile from a beach in what is now Ludington, Michigan, where he died at age 37.

ere is a marker and a cross on what had been his grave (the bones were later dug up and reburied in St. Ignace). But the real evidence of the early explorers lies in the names of the rivers and towns, French names that give everything a creepy depth, reminding you that our world was built on top of another world, which was built on top of still others.

Ludington was founded in 1845 as a center for trappers and shermen. It boomed in the 1880s on the lake trade and remains a home of one of the only regular cross-lake ferry. Like so many waterfront towns, it was devastated by the rise of the railroads and devastated again by the waning of the lumber industry. What remains is the architecture of what had been a bigger town, elegant storefronts lled with dead-end concerns—dollar store, consignment shop, tattoo parlor—and rundown mansions where, once upon a time, the debutantes drank gin on back porches watching the ships.

We rolled into town in the early evening. In June and July, the Michigan days are nearly arctic in length. At 10 p.m., it was still light enough to read a newspaper outside. We ate at the Old Hamlin House. It was like a meal in a mother’s dream of the past, turkey dinners with a thousand sides, every food group represented, the regulars talking high school football. My son was wearing a Bears jersey, Brian Urlacher’s number 54, and two octogenarians approached, giggling: “Don’t ya think the fellah’s a little small to play linebacker?” In these sun struck ports, it’s still the old America, the place of my childhood, peopled by old folks, as friendly as can be as their generation fades away.

We checked into Snyder’s Shoreline Inn, a two-story motel

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across the road from the lake. Everything I left in the 1970s was there waiting for me: the tiny bars of soap, the clunky room keys, the sand in the bed and the smell of candles and mildew.

Before bed, we went to the beach. It’s broad here, with dramatic dunes. ere is a harbor and a jetty with a beautiful lighthouse at the end, as there are lighthouses up and down the coast. You can walk the jetty and look back at the yellow lights of Ludington as night comes on. A ship sails away from the harbor, the water red in the evening sun. For me, it was unaccountably strange—watching the sun go down on Lake Michigan. is was my personal Atlantic, and it had always been a place of sunrises and dawns— never sunsets. It was as if I had nally reached Saint-Exupéry’s France, land of the setting sun, birthplace of the world.

We stopped at Traverse City the next afternoon, cherry capital of the world. e road was lined with orchards, the branches so heavy with ripe fruit they bent to the ground. e pavement skirted Grand Traverse Bay, coves and islands appearing and disappearing between houses and trees.

is has to be among the most beautiful drives in the country, each turn a ording a new view of the lake, which stands for all those lakes prized by Midwesterners but unknown to so many others who rush o to foreign oceans that pale in comparison to our strange inland seas.

An hour or so up the road, we rolled into the outskirts of Petoskey, Hemingway Country. e writer loved resorts. If he wrote about a place, you know it was one of the “in” places of the moment. In the 1920s, it was Paris. In the 1930s, it was Key West. In his early years, it was this lakefront vacation town. His family had a house nearby, on Walloon Lake. Hemlock forests and streams, lumber mills, swamps—boyhood adventure condensed to a perfume.

I can’t help but see it through the eyes of Nick Adams, the alter-ego who wandered those dazzling early stories: Up in Michigan, e ree Day Blow, Big Two-Hearted River. When Hemingway rst published nearly 90 years ago, the town was scandalized. He’d written real gossip about real people. He was persona non grata. Now, of course, all is forgiven.

Cherry Blossoms. Photography courtesy of Traverse City Tourism

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THE ENCHANTED ISLE

I am tormented by detached memories. ese are like photos that have fallen from an album and lie at the bottom of a drawer. In one, I am staring at rows of fudge in some sort of diner and it’s raining outside. In another, I am on a hill looking down at a bay lled with red sails. ese memories have long puzzled me: Are they from another life? After a few hours on Mackinac Island, which sits in a strait that leads from Lake Huron to Lake Michigan, topping Michigan proper like the dot on the Spanish exclamation point, I realized that all those unmoored memories were in fact collected on some ancient family trip to Mackinac, when my parents were young.

Mackinaw City, where you hop a ferry across, is a child’s idea of a honky-tonk town, its big commercial street lled with banners, crowds and every variety of candy and novelty shop, each a kind of hook meant to catch and haul in the suckers, pulling their money-soaked parents after them. At times, in such a town, you feel like a capo on the corner of Mulberry Street, snapping singles o a thick roll.

We left our car in long-term parking, checked bags and climbed aboard a boat, where we had the upper deck to ourselves. We picked up speed in the straits. A storm was moving across the water. rough the rain we could see Mackinac glistening in

the distance. It’s always been considered sacred, especially to the Ojibwa, its early inhabitants who believed it the resting place of the great spirit and the rst land to appear after the great ood. To Europeans, it registered as a dream. A New World, a virgin continent. And, in that new world, a great sweet-water sea. And, at a focal point in that sea, a lush island.

ere is a town, stores and restaurants and inns, but most famous is the Grand Hotel, the sort of mansard-roof a air where, eons ago, a president spent an eventless August. ere are no cars on Mackinac, and the rst thing you notice is the smell of manure. It’s all-encompassing. Everywhere. All the time. Sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker, but never gone. You move through zones: fudge then manure, fudge then manure.

We stayed at the Chippewa Inn. From the balcony, you could look across to the mainland, or through the straits to open water. In the morning, we rented bikes and set o on the eight-mile path that follows the shore. In other words, we were circumnavigating within our greater circumnavigation. Outside town, fresh air comes from the east and rock ledges and cli s loom. In the middle of the ride, you can park your bike and stand on a beach and look at the place where Lake Huron bumps into and mingles with Lake Michigan. But what’s clear on a map is just a subtle change in mood under the open sky.

Mackinac Island Sunrise from Ft. Mackinac. Photography courtesy of Mackinac Island Tourism Bureau

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THE CROSSING

In the morning, instead of continuing through the Upper Peninsula, as planned, we went south. is meant giving up the dream of complete circumnavigation, but it suddenly seemed more important to see the water from the water, to get inside the frame. And so we returned to Ludington to board the S.S. Badger, last of the steam ferries. We would close the circle by sea, which seemed appropriate.

I have an old book about Lake Michigan. I bought it on Mackinac. It was published in 1944, a moment of crisis, the sort of moment when citizens crave an accounting of national wonders.

e frontispiece shows a map—decorated by sketches of Indians, settlers, teepees, cabins, headdresses, canoes—of ferry routes that once crossed the lake. Chicago to Benton Harbor. Milwaukee to Muskegon, Mich. Kewaunee, Wisconsin, to Frankfort, Michigan.

e Ludington service is all that remains of this once-robust web of commercial and pedestrian steamers. An adult ticket costs $66, not including the price of a car, carried in the belly of the ship. For an additional $49, we got a state room, where you can sit at the little desk and work on a novel about the sea, or crash on the crib-like mattress, lulled by the hypnotic slosh of sweet water.

ere’s a movie theater, a gift shop, an arcade, a cafeteria and a social hall where a carnival barker type ran bingo and trivia contests,

but I spent most of my time on the rail, staring at the water.

ere is a comforting sameness at the center of the lake, a blue vastness, swells and mirage. Its oor and the surrounding land began to form about 15,000 years ago, stemming from glacial activity. It’s terrifyingly deep as a result, dropping to almost a thousand feet at Green Bay. At its biggest, it’s 118 miles across and 307 miles from top to bottom. No one’s ever swum its broadest portion, though now and then a nut canoes it.

e lake can be a special challenge to navigators. ere are sudden shallows and terri c storms that cannot be outrun because, unlike the ocean, the lake is not in nite. ere are tight places where the wind and the rain can drive even the most experienced captain to ruin. e lake oor is littered with famous wrecks like the Lady Elgin, which sank on the morning of September 8, 1860, taking nearly 300 people down with it. Some of the remains were discovered o Highwood, in 1989, under 60 feet of water.

e S.S. Badger completes a crossing in just over four hours. It lands at Manitowoc, an industrial Wisconsin port of factories and breweries. You see smokestacks before you see land, the harbor, piers and bays. e town was visited by world historical events on September 5, 1962, when a chunk of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 4 landed on North Eighth Street. e occasion is marked each year by Sputnik Fest.

Dunes. Photography courtesy of Traverse City Tourism

GOING HOME

I knew I was home as soon as I was on the highway. e lake was back where it belonged, in the east, those pancake- at Wisconsin farms were in the windows, red silos punctuating seas of corn. (Without Chicago, Illinois would be Iowa—that’s what they said when I was a child.) We stopped in Milwaukee, stayed at the P ster Hotel, an ornate landmark of the Gilded Age where the bellhops crack wise, visited the art museum, the beautiful lakefront one designed by Calatrava, walked along the shore and ate frozen custard at the stand on North Point beach.

In the morning, we continued on, making our way to Chicago from the north. We took lake roads and made frequent stops. About 20 miles from the city, as the Willis and Hancock were just coming into view, we stopped at Glencoe, my hometown. It’s changed. e people are richer, even the upper middle class is gone. Like parts of Manhattan, it can seem like just billionaires and billionaire-helpers. e stores were empty at midday. ere was a summer deadness.

I looked for my old friends, but they were gone too, pricedout failures like me, every one of them. I looked for my favorite haunts. Ray’s Sport Shop. Wally King’s Record Store. Ricky’s Delicatessen. Gone. Gone. Gone. Object impermanence, the ow of time. Everything you see will be replaced. I felt like a ghost, a stranger visiting my old life.

But then I went down to the beach. Over the barricade, along the ravine road, past the house where Big Al used to sell hot dogs. And there it was, the lake. ank God, it was still the same.

Pfister Hotel. Photography courtesy of Pfister Hotel

The unchanging lake ... home

HOUSE & HOME

AN INSIDE LOOK AT CHICAGO’S MOST EXCLUSIVE ADDRESS—THE NORTH SHORE

Sheridan Road visits the beautiful home and grounds of Shelley Johnstone Paschke

FUN in the SUN

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Interior designer Shelley Johnstone Paschke opened her stunning landmark home to House Beautiful and shares exclusive tips with Sheridan Road just in time for summer.

EDITED BY SHERRY THOMAS PHOTOGRAPHY BY JONNY VALIANT FOR HOUSE BEAUTIFUL

Shelley Johnstone Paschke is a woman who needs no introduction. e North Shore interior designer is nationally renowned and sought after by clients worldwide. So, we were especially thrilled to see the design diva’s own Lake Forest home featured in the May issue of House Beautiful

Inspired by Paschke’s air for bringing luxurious interior touches to her villa-like exterior decor, we asked her if she would share a few design secrets with Sheridan Road. Always generous with her time and talents, she agreed.

Your pool and surrounding grounds look like a Mediterranean villa on the Italian coast. You mentioned in the House Beauti-

ful feature that the pink towels were inspired by your visits to Capri’s La Fontelina Beach Club. What other details are Capri in uenced? e colors and enjoying family and food are de nitely inspired by Capri. Long lazy days with meals served on linen tablecloths with a fun mix of ceramic dishes and objects, rattan chairs, colored water glasses, and striped towels reminiscent of La Fontelina Beach Club, and all the beautiful hotels and restaurants on the island. We wanted to bring that lifestyle into our home.

How do you choose fabrics and materials that look fabulous and yet endure the elements? e cushions for the larger pieces of furniture are all covered using a Sunbrella outdoor fabric. e smaller decorative pillows are put under the covered awning or pool house when it rains. I mix up the pillows a lot and use everything! Some of the decorative pillows are custom made using

OPPOSITE PAGE: Shelley Johnstone Paschke in her pool house wearing Oscar de la Renta ABOVE: Pool and pool house

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Manuel Canovas fabric while others are by Roberta Roller Rabbit or Madeline Weinrib.

Tell us about the blue and white pots and the ornate white lanterns.  e blue and white pots were purchased at a local garden center years ago and are only valuable because they are harder to nd in that size and pattern. ey are left outside for the entire season and can endure the elements. Same with the blue and white garden stools and all other furniture. e lanterns are all for outdoor use as well and have battery operated candles that all come on as the sun descends into the horizon.

ere are several “rooms” in your outdoor living area. How did you approach creating these spaces? I created di erent sitting ar-

eas based upon how we wanted to use this outdoor space. Sitting in the pool house, one can lounge and even nap on the sofa and be out of the sun or rain. We have di erent places for dining based on how many people we are entertaining and if we want to be in the sun or shade. e covered awning space is perfect for reading and is quiet because it is a bit away from the activity of the pool. Like rooms inside the home, each space can be used di erently but the design ows together cohesively.

What have you learned over the years about what works and what doesn’t for outdoor entertaining? I have all my things accessible and easy to grab to set a table in minutes. Everything works together both inside and outside, and I use it all. My advice is to have fun, enjoy, and make it easy.

OPPOSITE PAGE: Most summer meals are enjoyed poolside ABOVE: Custom striped awning creates yet another room on Johnstone Paschke’s grounds

10 Serena & Lily Lido Stripe Sling Chair, available at Serena and Lily, 853 W. Armitage, Chicago, 773-435-6036, serenaandlily.com 11 Paros Chip ‘n Dip Server, available at Crate and Barrel Old Orchard, 847-674-6850 12 Pampelonne Watermelon Americano, available at Pampelonne, enjoypampelonne.com 13 Elephant Cheese Board, available at Anthropologie Old Orchard, 847-673-0721 14 Grillmaster Kit, available at Dean & DeLuca, deandeluca.com 15 Hermes Jeux d’Animaux Paddle Ball Set, available at Hermes Chicago, 312-787-8175 16 CB2 x Fred Segal Pool Party Barware, available at CB2 Chicago, 312-787-8329 17 Tiamo Rose Wine Cans, available at Caputo Cheese Market Lake Forest, 847-482-0100 18 Eastport Paneled Umbrella in Navy and White, available at Serena and Lily, 853 W. Armitage, Chicago, 773-4356036, serenaandlily.com 19 Everdure by Heston Blumenthal Furnace, available at Everdure by Heston, everdurebyheston.com

From glorious, sprawling estates to modest condos, you can find just what you are looking for in Lake Forest. And if you were enticed by the open house you visited last weekend, also consider the fact that we have the lowest tax rate in the county.

Talk to your real estate professional and start your journey home now!

The Cubs Hat THAT COULD

Abby Wood’s old blue Cubs hat is more than lucky: It’s an emblem of hope, perseverance, and survival in the ght against cancer.

bby Wood has brownish-red hair, a red some have called auburn, strawberry blond, or even chestnut. But when she stands in the sun the red sparkles brighter, like the cherry red “C” in the middle of the Cubs hat she’s wearing.

“It’s my lucky Cubs hat,” she says, touching the frayed brim of the cap and grinning. “I wear it … a lot.”

Wear it she has, and does, and will—not just as a Cubs fan, but because the hat has become an emblem of hope, perseverance, and survival in Wood’s ght against cancer. Wood, who grew up in Lake Forest, started wearing the hat during her junior year at Princeton University, to cover her then-completely-bald head

while she went through chemotherapy. She wore it watching baseball games that distracted her from moments of intense pain during seven months of cancer treatment. She wore it when the Cubs won the 2016 World Series. And she says she’ll almost certainly wear it during her wedding week this fall, which comes just after her ten-year anniversary of being cancer free.

“We’ve been through a lot together, this hat, baseball, and I,” she says. “And the journey continues!”

A few years ago, Abby wrote a story about all she went through with the hat for a cancer-survivors newsletter. Serendipitously, fellow cancer survivor and New York Met’s General Manager Sandy Alderson read the story and brought Wood out to a Cubs-Mets game where she met more fellow survivors: Cubs rst baseman Anthony Rizzo and Cubs pitcher Jon Lester.

WORDS AND PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY BY MONICA KASS ROGERS

rough this, Wood learned about Lester’s NVQT (“never quit”) campaign to ght pediatric cancer, and has stepped up to help with the nonpro t.

“One thing just led to another,” says Wood, who is now an account manager for Tempus, a Chicago technology company empowering doctors to deliver personalized cancer treatment through big data and analytics. “ e hat has been lucky for me, and, I want to pay that forward to help other kids who have cancer.”

Diagnosed with Stage IV Hodgkin lymphoma when she was 21, Wood relocated to New York City to receive treatments at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. “When my hair fell out after the rst round of chemo,” says Wood, “My parents had some really nice wigs made for me. But I was just not a wig person—they didn’t feel like me.”

e Cubs hat on the other hand, totally did.

“Casual, easy, sporty … it t me and everything baseball represented to me. I had been a Cubs fan since I was tiny. So, I started wearing the Cubs hat all the time.”

Strengthening the baseball connection, following every session of chemotherapy, Wood had to have an immune-system boosting shot that was very painful, and baseball proved the perfect panacea.

“Watching baseball just worked for me. ere’s something about watching people outside in summer at a game that’s very soothing. It drew me in, brought me out of where I was, helped me hang on to who I was. I could imagine myself sitting there eating a hotdog, feeling the sun. Remembering the days as a kid with my twin sister Daisy, heckling the pitchers to throw us a ball,” she smiles.

Declared cancer-free in August of 2008, Wood kept wearing the Cubs hat. “When I went back to nish college, I wore it until my hair grew back. And although I don’t wear it every day now, I do wear it to every Cubs game. I wear it every time I go back to Sloan Kettering for checkups, and anytime I y on a plane.”

She wears it, too when she meets with young people who have been diagnosed with cancer, to help cheer them on and encourage them through their upcoming battle. Wood will also don her Cubs hat on July 20th at Jon and Farrah Lester’s NVRQT event.

Each year, Lester and his wife Farrah host a party with all of the Cubs players and coaches to bene t the NVRQT campaign—this year Wood, and her lucky Cubs hat, will be there too as part of the NVRQT committee.

NVRQT goes Country

WHEN: JULY 20, 2018, 6 p.m.

WHERE: Joe’s Bar on Weed Street in Chicago

Look for a nationally recognized country music recording artist to headline a night of great music that includes Cubs players and coaches bartending and cooking up country fun. Guests will enjoy a hearty bu et dinner, cocktails and a silent and live auction as well as games and entertainment from players and local celebrities. Funds raised go toward pediatric cancer research through NVRQT and the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation. To inquire about becoming a sponsor, or buying tickets, visit cubs.com/NVRQT

Abby Wood

Jon Lester. Photography courtesy of the Chicago Cubs

Karen Malkin and Dr. Melinda Ring

Happyand HEALTHY

WORDS BY EMMA REYNOLDS

As the temperatures climb, school winds down and the days get longer, it’s time to put health and wellness on the forefront. ere’s nothing better than a Chicago summer, and with the unique portfolio of natural treatment plans at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern University (Osher Center), you can look and feel your best this season.

e Osher Center is a leader in innovative integrative medicine—combining Western medicine with science-based therapies, such as acupuncture, massage therapy, energy medicine, and chiropractic care, all while looking at the body from a mindbody-spirit perspective.

Dr. Melinda Ring, who has served as Executive Director of the Osher Center since 2007, oversees the clinical programs, medical trainee education, and emerging research in the eld of integrative medicine, as well as sees patients on a consultative basis.

“[We see] people who are more proactive in their care to prevent disease, optimize aging, and are looking for more personalized treatment options,” says Dr. Ring.

e center, which is located in downtown Chicago, treats patients from across the Chicagoland area. Jim Karas, a Chicago resident, author, speaker and founder of Jim Karas Intelligent Fitness & Wellness, is one of thousands of Osher Center patients whose health has been transformed.

“I am extremely devoted to preventative care,” says Karas, who also is the chair of the Osher Center’s philanthropic advisory council, IM AWARE. “[Dr. Ring] helps determine in ammation levels, and in ammation is the gateway to disease. ere are a lot of ways the center can help you uncover what, in the past, you had to go about by chance. Now you actually have the data in front of you.”

Glencoe’s Karen Malkin, an AzCIM Certi ed Integrative Health Coach and Lifestyle Practitioner and chair of the Osher Center Bene t, knows how important it is to feel energized, as patients are active with their families this season. As one of Dr. Ring’s earliest patients, she calls the Osher Center a “little secret” in Chicago because the center works with patient’s primary care physicians and integrative physicians to determine the best treatment plans for each person.

One of the Osher Center’s major initiatives is their Food is Medicine program, which helps patients create a healthy rela-

tionship with food and learn more about the nutrients our bodies need to ght disease naturally. Malkin says that one of the most powerful tools we have is our fork. is season (and every season), what we put on our fork is crucial to achieving our health goals.

“What we eat has a dramatic impact on how we feel,” she says. “Food can be very healing. ere are a lot of healing bene ts in spices and in herbs. What you choose to put in your mouth is going to have a direct impact on your long-term health and your risk for developing chronic diseases.”

Malkin provides three crucial tips for this season to help people feel energized, healthy and happy:

1) Eat seasonally and visit your local farmer’s market;

2) Eat a rainbow of colors; and

3) Have your plate contain 50 percent colored vegetables, 25 percent protein and 25 percent complex whole grain.

Malkin notes that eating a rainbow of foods is crucial because every color has a di erent health bene t.

“When you add in nutrient-dense foods and colorful fruits and vegetables, they will crowd out cravings for the foods that make us sick,” she says, adding that she is here to help people form a healthy relationship with food.

“Food is the solution, not the problem,” she says. “Find pleasure in food, slow down with your food, eat mindfully, and don’t eat in front of the computer or TV. Really being present with your food is going to help naturally create the body you’re meant to have in a healthy way.”

With one of the country’s most advanced integrative medicine facilities in the heart of Chicago, the Osher Center is teeming with expert health professionals and e ective treatments that can completely transform lives with the patient at the center of his or her healing.

“You don’t need a physician referral to try acupuncture, naturopathy, chiropractic care, or energy medicine,” says Dr. Ring. “Experiencing treatments is ultimately the best way to see how certain things work for you and bene t your health.”

Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern University is located at 150 East Huron Avenue, Suite 1100, in Chicago, 312-9263627 o ce. For more information, visit ocim.nm.org/.

e Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern University is a leader in changing the way people think about health and wellness—and summer is a great time to explore how the center can help you transform your mind, body, and spirit.

WINNETKA REVITALIZED

e Ho mann formula—buy, redevelop, and rejuvenate—brings new life to downtowns.

WORDS BY MONICA KASS ROGERS PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBIN SUBAR

If you could view a recent time-lapse lm of the shops along Lincoln Avenue in downtown Winnetka, you’d witness a pleasing transformation. You’d see the dark-timbers-on-white Tudor buildings soften to subtler, spi er shades of grayon-cream paint. You’d watch intriguing sculptures sprout on sidewalks in front of businesses. You’d blink as the once-dark-at-night street became illuminated with the installation of night lighting. You’d observe long-time tenants carrying on and new tenants setting up shop. And perhaps most dramatic? You’d notice with each passing month more and more people shopping, strolling and mingling along the stretch. All of which couldn’t make Greg Ho mann, principal and chief executive o cer of Wilmette-based Ho mann Commercial Real Estate, happier.

“ is is what we set out to do here,” says Ho mann, who in the last 24 months, has purchased more than $125 million worth of real estate here, and has plans to buy and redevelop much more with the backing of Ho mann family-owned Osprey Capital LLC.

“I grew up in Winnetka,” Ho mann explains. “ is is the downtown where I have all my childhood memories and friends. So it’s really nice to get involved in redeveloping a community that’s near and dear to my heart.”

Despite the fact that analysts have been predicting the death of brick-and-mortar for a long time, Ho mann says his family’s strategy of aggressively expanding their portfolios in carefully selected markets and then redeveloping those properties to a very high standard, is working.

“People may do a lot of shopping online, but they’ll leave their computers to shop in the neighborhood if you create the right environment to draw them out,” he says, pointing to sales increases of 65 percent in previous markets the Ho mann family companies have revitalized.

Winnetka is actually the third community Ho mann has targeted with its playbook of large-purchases followed by redevelopment (paint, lighting, architectural improvements) and community enhancement (interactive street sculptures, music and art festivals, farmers markets, etc.)

It all started six years ago, with purchases in Avon, Colorado (the Beaver Creek Resort) then Naples, Florida. Ho mann Commercial Real Estate is now the largest commercial real estate owner in both places, with $400-million-plus invested in Naples and $100 million in Beaver Creek.

“ e areas we invest in are not by chance,” says Ho mann. “We’ve had homes in both communities for years,” he notes. “We like these places and believe in them.”

Initially, Ho mann didn’t have a fully formed formula for revitalization. “Post-recession, we saw the opportunity to buy a large amount of property in both Beaver Creek and Naples for a good price” says Ho mann. “So as an investment philosophy, it was a great time to get involved.”

He says the company’s three-pronged “magic formula” for

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redevelopment exposed itself as the investments moved forward. Among the learns: Buying a lot of property quickly in contiguous chunks allowed the rm to coordinate design enhancements in a more concerted fashion, with better economies of scale and better prices from vendors. As well, promotional and community-focused events became much easier to manage.

“Revitalization is much easier and more streamlined to bring to fruition when you have one owner of a lot of buildings coordinating plans, rather than a bunch of fragmented ownership trying to come to consensus on something,” Ho mann explains.

Trying to coordinate a farmers market, a street festival or an art fair, for example “between 50 di erent ownership groups can be a nightmare, compared with coordinating between one owner and the city o cials,” says Ho mann.

While Ho mann’s redevelopment of Winnetka is quite new, within years, the company hopes to expand e orts here, comparable to what it has achieved in Naples. ere the company has added a restaurant development division, and has plans to bring in

more entertainment venues, including a bowling alley and highend movie theatre. As well, Osprey Capital’s recent acquisition of SunMaster, an awning manufacturer, and AdelHeidi’s Organic Sweets, a snack and sweets maker, could spell synergies for Homann Commercial Real Estate holdings here.

For now, Ho mann’s plan for Winnetka is to continue to purchase and re-develop properties, giving them a fresh, consistent look, with the help of local architects. “Sherman Williams even has a cream-colored paint they call Ho mann White,” he laughs. ere are also plans to greatly grow installations of public art with the addition of a sculpture walk, and, an art/music fair and farmers market are in the o ng.

Ho mann concludes, “I think America’s downtowns represent memories for children, families, and friends. ey lend to a feeling of being connected and identifying with the community, a place to be proud of and a lifetime of childhood and family memories that cannot be replaced in malls or via the Internet. We hope to enhance and bring that downtown vibe back to life.”

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LIVING & GIVING

PEOPLE, PHILANTHROPY, AND EVENTS

The Joffrey Ballet along with more than 700 of the Company’s supporters gathered in celebration of Ashley Wheater’s 10th anniversary as Artistic Director.

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Nearly 500 generous supporters lled e Gerahty in Chicago for an evening in support of UNICEF’s work to save and improve the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children.

SECOND BLOOM BOOK SIGNING, PAGE 104

Lake Forest interior designer Shelley Johnstone Paschke hosted Cathy Graham at her newly opened studio.

COURAGEOUS CONVERSATION: ON WOMEN’S BRAIN HEALTH, PAGE 110

High-level executive women from diverse professional backgrounds joined for an open conversation about Alzheimer’s disease at the Zodiac at Neiman Marcus Northbrook Court.

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Spring Luncheon UCCRFAB

On the heels of the 2018 success, Clue to A Cure benefit, the Auxiliary Board of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation (UCCRFAB), hosted its annual luncheon at The Glen View Club. Supporters enjoyed a delicious lunch and mingling, and a program featuring keynote speaker Dr. Jane Churpek.

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Lisa Ho man, Pam Westin, Alice Dubose

Susan Swaringen, Ana Cassorla

Mary Leopold, Ann Mohn

John Gigerich, Dr. Mark Applebaum

Terri Kingdom, Kelly Hackett, Cathy Nichols

Leydiana Crockett, Karen Foley, Sabrina Briggs

Lisa Maatman, Dr. Jane Churpek

11th Annual UNICEF Gala Chicago UNICEF USA

Nearly 500 generous supporters dressed in their best black-tie attire filled The Gerahty in Chicago for an evening in support of UNICEF’s work to save and improve the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children. Over the course of the evening, guests enjoyed a seated dinner, special remarks by President & CEO of UNICEF USA,Caryl Stern;Managing Director of the Midwest Regional Office,Beth McCostlin; andGala Co-ChairsSheilah BurnhamandKim Cornellas well as entertainment from Musicalityandthe Ken Arlen Evolution Orchestra.The event raised $1.1 million in support of UNICEF’s global mission. unicefusa.org

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Casey Marsh, Elizabeth McCostlin, Caryl M. Stern

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LIVING & GIVING

“Second Bloom” Book Signing with Cathy Graham

Lake Forest resident and Interior Designer, Shelley Johnstone Paschke opened the doors to her beautiful new showroom to host a cocktail party and book signing to celebrate Cathy Graham’s book Second Bloom. Cathy who was born in raised in Highland Park released her first book last fall celebrating all things entertaining aptly titled Cathy Graham‘s Art of the Table. Johnstone Paschke and Graham became fast friends and welcomed a group of local editors, artists, clients and friends to welcome Graham to Lake Forest while she’s currently on a book tour. cathybgraham.com/book; shelleydesign.com

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Nicole Carrabine, Therese Dempsey, Chrissy Davis

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Stacy Sanderson, Erin Henkel

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Northwestern Osher Center for Integrative Medicine Benefit

Nearly 500 of Chicago’s top health enthusiasts, professionals, and philanthropists gatheredforan evening in celebration of medical advances and research at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Chicago. A program featuring keynote speaker Dr. Tieraona Low Dog, benefit chair Karen Malkin, and advisory council chair Jim Karas, followed dinner and a reception. foundation.

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Nancy Heap, Molly Vaile, Brennan Murray

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Joanne Duckler, Alex Berman, Mindy Deutsch

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LIVING & GIVING

Joffrey BalletGala2018

The Joffrey Balletalongwithmorethan700ofthe Company’ssupportersgatheredincelebrationofAshley Wheater’s10th anniversaryasArtisticDirectorfor a stunningone-night-only,hourlongperformance featuringpieceshandselectedbyWheater.Following theperformance,guestsweretakenbytrolleytoThe PalmerHouseHiltonforaneveningfilledwith cocktails, dinnerand,ofcourse,dancing.The2018Galawas sponsoredbyBMOWealthManagementandhosted byGalachair SusanOleari withthesupportof the Joffrey’sWomen’sBoardcommitteechair, Kathleen Klaser, Women’sBoardPresident PattiS.Eylar andthe hostcommittee.Thissignatureeventraisesfundsfor the Joffrey’soperationsandprogramming.Theproceeds fromtheeventprovidestudentsofallagestheopportunity tofostercreativityandconfidencethroughtheartofdance. joffrey.org

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Chuck Jordan, Andrea Schwartz, Marci Holzer, Kristina McGrath, Michael McGrath

Maria Smithburg, Traci Mansur, Jerrilyn Ho mann, Sandra Deromedi

Anne Kaplan, Dia Weil

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Courageous Conversation: On Women’s Brain Health

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On Wednesday, April 25th, WomenAgainstAlzheimer’s, a network of UsAgainstAlzheimer’s, and Woman’s Day Magazine hosted Courageous Conversations, a traveling series of events bringing women together to talk about brain health, at the Zodiac at Neiman Marcus Northbrook Court. High-level executive women from diverse professional backgrounds joined for an open conversation exploring the economic, human, and social toll Alzheimer’s disease puts on families, health systems, and the business community in a common hope to defeat the disease. usagainstalzheimers.org

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Take advantage of summer weather to ensure details get done. is is the best time of year for potential sellers to make sure their house is in the best condition possible for the next market, so make sure your house sparkles. is includes roo ng, tuckpointing, and getting your landscaping in fabulous condition.

But rst, get a great team in place.

I have the perfect people in place to get you on the right track to make these improvements and increase your property’s sellability. Any agent should have a roster of experts at the ready to help maximize the value of your home.

Take plenty of photos.

Take photos of your interior and exterior now to show your property in full bloom. It is crucial that your agent uses the best photographer for this—and has a keen eye for details themselves. Everything needs to be perfect, from how the bed is made to the color scheme. When buyers see details they don’t like, they move on.

e goal is move-in ready.

Buyers in the suburbs are looking for something move-in ready— young families have little time and little inclination to spend their time xing things up.

Modernize your space.

SUMMER SUGGESTIONS FOR SELLERS

Take advantage of the summer months, advises real estate royalty Emily Sachs Wong, to ready your home for resale.

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With over two decades of experience in the most sought-after neighborhoods in Chicago, to say that @properties’ Emily Sachs Wong knows Chicago is an understatement. She brings an unparalleled knowledge of the marketplace to the table, equally admired for her tireless work ethic as she is for her quick turnaround times and high sales prices—both among the best in her eld.

If selling is on your agenda for fall 2018, don’t miss these words of wisdom from Sachs Wong:

Buyers are looking for something ultra-hip and current—they want what they see in magazines. ey want the ‘wow.’ For fall, we’re seeing lots of open space and clean, modern design—things are de nitely skewing more minimalist. And white is everywhere. I suggest that any seller page through the latest home magazines or make a visit to the Merchandise Mart. Take the time in between selling seasons to rework furniture, stain or paint cabinets, re-carpet, and recover furniture that has shown wear from years of a life well lived in your home.

Don’t feel intimidated about getting it right—ask for help!

I frequently have sellers ask me, ‘How will I know what a buyer will want?’ ere are people that make a living in knowing that. I specialize in coming up with ideas for sellers to get a premium for their house and make it sell signi cantly faster.

e best deals in Chicago are resales.

After 20 years of being in the business, I’ve never seen a busier time than now for empty nesters moving back to the city. While many of these suburban buyers have been focusing on new construction properties to plant their roots for the next phase of their lives, the best deals the city has to o er are actually in resales. ose willing to do updates and create their own vibe in the space are likely to get the best price and have the greatest upsale potential.

Working with your neighborhood expert is all-important. ough I’m based in Chicago and cover everything from the Gold Coast and Lincoln Park to Bucktown, I have the perfect referrals for each and every neighborhood across the North Shore. Knowing the ins and outs of all active listings—and those not available to the general public—that’s the key to nding your new home. For anyone looking in the city, that is exactly what I provide.

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JUST LIKE NEW PUBLISHER’S

Old, outdated, and rusted metal furniture and xtures can look good as new with the help of Patio Partner, a division of Powder Coating Specialists in Brook eld.

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If home design shows on television have taught us anything, it’s that just about anything that’s old can look new again. When it comes to patio or metal furniture, that’s de nitely true, because of companies like Powder Coating Specialists, a metal re nishing company based in Brook eld.

“We take furniture that looks like it’s worn and used, and we make it look brand new,” says Krissy Dziewior, who owns Powder Coating Specialists and its Patio Partner division together with her husband Jim. “We re nish anything that’s metal.”

In the summer, they see an increase in patio furniture and outdoor decorative items like planters, ower urns, railings, light xtures, fence panels, and beyond. e only true parameters are that it must be a conductive metal, and it needs be completed in their 4,500-square-foot shop. ey even o er delivery services for those that can’t drop o themselves.

Powder coating looks like a paint, except it’s more durable and can last for years, serving as a protective nish. To re nish a metal piece with a new powder coating, rst it’s sandblasted down to remove all the existing nish and create a clean surface. en, it’s steam-cleaned and treated with a rust inhibitor before going through two rounds of powder coating that cures in an oven. An old metal chair comes out looking brand new in one of any 300 colors in stock at the shop.

Another huge bene t of using Powder Coating Specialists and Patio Partner is that repair work on metal items can be done at the same time. “We’re truly a one stop shop for patio needs because we do repair work as well, including welding. Our team is trained with a proven process and skilled mechanically for most repairs needed,” Jim says.

And not just repair work that’s part of a powder coating project; they do repair work separate from powder coating. ey can cut down metal furniture legs to reach a certain bar or table height, and they can replace straps and slings on furniture as well.

“You don’t have to go to a bunch of di erent vendors. We have books of after-market materials for vinyl strapping and slings as well as original manufacturer items such as Brown Jordan, Tropitone, and others. Customers can pick the powder color for the metal and fabrics they want for their patio furniture all from our showroom. We do it all,” Krissy adds.

Jim has another refurbishment business specializing in engineering and services for the steel industry. Prior to starting Powder Coating Specialists, he would regularly have items powder coated. Rather than send those requests out to a vendor, he had the idea to start their own small business together to accommodate needs, and it’s grown into one of the best area companies for patio furniture refurbishment and metal re nishing in the Chicagoland area.

“Furniture is so expensive and meaningful to many. Just because it’s rusting or the color doesn’t work anymore for some reason, it’s silly to get rid of such a big investment. e other wonderful thing about powder coating is that it is environmentally friendly. It’s a nice, clean alternative,” Krissy says. Unlike paint, powder coating emits negligible amounts of volatile organic compounds in the air, and powder coating is hazardous air pollutant (HAP) free.

During the spring, the shop is busy with outdoor furniture, but they often re nish interior items too, like replace screens, light xtures, and other outdated metal features in a house (think brass from the 1980s). What started as a nice add-on to an existing business has turned into a trusted name in the powder coating, repair, and re nishing industry locally—and has truly become a great partner for customers, especially for patio and outdoor needs.

Powder Coating Specialists and its Patio Partner division is located at 9436 47th Street in Brook eld, 708-387-8000, powdercoatingspecialists.com.

Jim and Krissy Dziewior

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Plastic Surgery Update: Total Body Lift

Patients who’ve had massive weight loss due to dieting or gastric bypass often are left with massive amounts of excess skin which will not shrink on its own. is manifests itself as an abdominal apron, laxity of the buttocks and thighs with folds of skin, drooping and de ation of the breasts, and hanging skin on the upper arms. ese areas can be approached as separate operations or can now be combined using one surgical event in a total body lift.

A lower body lift combines an abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) with a thigh and buttock lift. e incision is placed in the waistband area and runs around the body, lifting the buttocks and lateral thighs, tightening the abdomen, and de ning the waist. e lift is combined with liposuction to remove excess skin and fat. is used to be considered a major operation, but with recent advances and a team approach, the operating time has been cut in half. is has several advantages: With a shorter operation, patients have less bleeding, less chance of infection, and lower complication rates. With these savings, additional procedures can be done safely at the same time, such as arm, medial thigh, and breast lifts.

In the case of a medial thigh lift, an incision is hidden in the groin and under the buttocks. e excess skin is removed and often liposuction is employed to reshape the area. In the case of a breast lift or mastopexy, the nipple is raised and the excess skin is removed. e remaining breast tissue is reshaped into a more conical, youthful appearance. Often, a breast implant is used for additional enhancement.

Recent advances in post-operative pain management and the use of “pain pumps,” which slowly infuse long-acting local anesthetics into the wound and numb it up, allow the patient to be up and walking within an hour of surgery. What used to require a lengthy hospital stay can now be done safely on a semi-outpatient basis. e point of a consultation is to address individual needs and come up with a feasible game plan. e important thing to understand is that each patient is unique.

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GRETA WALL: BEAUTY and BRAINS on Guard at the KENILWORTH BEACH

Lifeguarding was a great rst job experience for Greta Wall. As a lifelong swimmer, Wall brought formidable credentials and experience to her role. Now an Industrial Engineering major with a minor in economics at Northwestern University, following a year as a visiting scholar at Harvard, Wall shares tales and tips from the (beach) front.

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Tell us about your experience as a lifeguard at Kenilworth Beach. I truly enjoyed my four years guarding. Both my dad and uncle had been lifeguards at the same beach, so I was honored to take my place on the chair—continuing this family tradition. Years ago, my uncle was on duty when he saw a swimmer struggling. He pulled him out and performed mouth-to-mouth CPR, saving his life. It was a constant reminder that this seemingly relaxing job comes with important responsibilities.

Any sage advice for beachgoers this summer? Sunscreen and shade might not seem cool in the moment, but your skin will thank you later.

What was the funniest thing that happened while you were on duty? Each Friday morning would start calm and serene, until around 9:30 when herds of Sports Plus Kenilworth Campers would come running down to the beach. ese elementary school kids were always full of energy, creating mischief for the counselors and lifeguards.

Any interesting questions asked of lifeguards? People don’t ask anything too crazy but a typical day might include little kids asking to sit in the chair or blow the whistle, boys asking for extra footballs, teenagers asking for a spare charger, and parents asking to bring wine down.

ere must have been some beautiful days... I loved watching the colorful sun sh boats from the Kenilworth Sailing Club. I learned to sail there, continuing my sailing on Lake Michigan to Sheridan Shores, and now I’m on the Northwestern Sailing Team.

You’re a New Trier graduate with ten years as a competitive swimmer, the last four as a swimmer for New Trier’s state-winning team. Were all lifeguards swimmers? e majority of us had competitive swimming experience, which certainly helped to pass the Red Cross certi cation course. When there were no patrons, it was fun to test our open-water swimming in Lake Michigan.

How did lifeguarding, if at all, prepare you for the rigorous academic path you’re on? Lifeguarding is all about preventative mentality. As a college student I think this reinforced the importance of staying ahead of my work, constantly keeping up with engineering problem sets and class papers.

Do you think you’d ever want to lifeguard again? Just for fun? As I enter a new phase in life, I guess it’s time for me to swap out my bright red bathing suit and whistle for business casual and a laptop! is summer, I will be a technical consulting intern for Navigant.

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