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Prognosis Good for NorthwesternLake Forest Hospital BY STEVE SADIN DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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hen all the work is done at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital late next year, patients in need of an examination from a specialist in Chicago can get it immediately and virtually in Lake Forest. The new hospital project is on schedule for a fall 2017 completion, turning a one-time local facility into an academic community hospital, according to hospital President Tom McAfee. Becoming a virtual extension of Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital, which houses the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in its extensive campus on Chicago’s Near North Side, Lake Forest Hospital will give patient’s the same level of excellence, McAfee said. “We are part of Northwestern Continued on PG 12
New Scaled-down Plan for One Winnetka BY EMILY SPECTRE DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
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new plan for One Winnetka that includes the Conney’s Pharmacy property and eliminates any contribution of village funds was presented to the Village Council at a lengthy special session held on July 27. The plan presented by Stonestreet Partners LLC was a significantly scaled down plan from that proposed over a year ago by the developer, and a departure from what was presented in April, the last time this issue was before the Village Council. Since that time, Stonestreet negotiated with Conney’s Pharmacy and reached a deal that would move the pharmacy across the street to 727 Elm Street, where Mirani’s Restaurant previously was located. The revised plan reduces the number of residential units from 71 to 61, which will include 15 condos, six townhouses and 40 luxury rental units. The total square footage of commercial space has also been reduced from 41,380 to 33,895 square feet. Most significantly, additional public parking spaces have been reduced from 149 to 100 by eliminating the public plaza on Lincoln Avenue and shrinking the west garage. David Trandel, CEO of Stonestreet, said the developer no longer seeks any financial contribution from the village to build a commuter garage, which was originally spun as a "public-private partnership" for more than $6 million. The new plan also includes $1.7 million in streetscape improvements — costs borne solely
The One Winnetka plan will include 61 residential units, comprising of 15 condos, 6 townhouses and 40 luxury rental units.
by the developer — which would include both sides of Elm Street and Lincoln Avenue. It also includes some encroachment onto Lincoln Avenue. While the new plan is significantly scaled down, the developer still seeks to construct a building that is higher than the permitted four stories, 45 feet — a height that some residents say is too high. The proposed west building on Lincoln Avenue is five stories, 59 feet, the east Elm Street building is five stories, 58 feet, and the center Elm Street building is four stories, 48 feet and 10 inches. Stonestreet also seeks zoning exceptions to an upper story setback requirement for the west and east buildings, as well as an exception to a rear yard setback requirement for the
east property line. Trandel emphasized the public benefits of the project, which must be established in a planned development in exchange for flexibility under the zoning code. He pointed to a $6.7 million contribution from the developer, representing $5 million for the east parking lot/ west garage, and $1.7 million in streetscape improvements. He noted that the village would benefit from an increase in tax revenue and fees and a downtown revitalization, as well as meeting a housing need for empty nesters. “I think we have a far more attractive plan,” Trandel said, adding that the height of the building makes it financially viable. “As a resident of Winnetka, I would be proud to see
what is there replaced with something beautiful.” Michael Pullman and Martin Stern, real estate advisors hired by the village, told the council that the project would be positive for Winnetka. “We believe this project as it was set forth tonight provides the village with substantial benefits,” Pullman said. The consultants pointed to a revised retail plan that allows for subdividing the retail spaces — something that could be more attractive to retailers in Winnetka. They also noted the plan included a refurbished downtown, with both sides of Lincoln Avenue and Elm Street receiving streetscape improvements, without any financial contribution by the village. While Stern and Pullman
acknowledged that this type of luxury housing does not exist outside of Chicago — the condo units are likely to be priced at much higher levels than what is currently on the market — they said there would be demand for it. “We think there is demand and we think the project is viable,” Stern said. The consultants estimated that while the Lincoln Avenue property technically has no value — the developer’s proposal includes encroaching on a small portion of it — they noted that the village trustees were tasked with weighing whether granting Stonestreet that village property and zoning exceptions was worth the public benefits the proposed project promises to Continued on PG 12
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[ NEWS ]
[ REAL ESTATE ]
11 highlighting the class of 2016
22 open houses
Maddy Morris made the most of her days at Woodlands Academy.
12 n ew scaled-down plan
for one winnetka Village Council hears Stonestreet's next step.
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lake forest hospital Northwestern Medicine's new facility to open in 2017.
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Find out — complete with map — what houses you can walk through for possible purchase on the North Shore on Sunday.
23 h ouses of the week
Intriguing houses for sale in our towns are profiled.
[ SPORTS ] 26 ‘ let’s do this for a cause’
Former Highland Park High School basketball standouts to hold camp for Deutsch Foundation.
[ LAST BUT NOT LEAST ]
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Views rival food at golf club restaurant.
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17 north shorts
Mike Lubow’s musings about life on the North Shore.
Dentist set to put down roots in Wilmette.
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An Education in Getting Involved BY JAKE JARVI
changed over the years, key memories we’ve made, definitely some funny stories. And I wanted to include people from all different groups, whether they here was a sense of things were from choirs or clubs. coming full circle as the Woodlands is such a great school graduates of Woodlands in general because you’re allowed Academy of the Sacred Heart in to be in so many different Lake Forest gathered in the activities. I’m really grateful that chapel on graduation day. It was I’ve been able to get involved in the same space they had gathered so many things.” for their introduction to high “So many things” is an school on their first day, and now, understatement. During her four four years later, they gathered to years at Woodlands, Morris celebrate their achievements and played tennis every fall and soccer say goodbye. It was a space and every spring. She sang in the a time designed to inspire the 46 Music Ministers choir, helped graduating young women to plan the prayer services with realize how much they’d accom- Campus Ministries, and rolled plished and how far they’d come. up her sleeves with the Baking That was certainly on Maddy Club. Morris’s mind as she stood up to Her favorite method of getting offer the graduation day reflection involved, though, was as an officer to her fellow students. with the Woodlands Academy “I wanted to reflect on the Council of Representatives beginning, where it all started at (WACOR), the school’s version Woodlands,” Morris says. “I tried of student council. The whole goal to think about how we all have of WACOR was to come up with Woodlands Academy's Maddy Morris. This is the sixth story in a series highlighting exceptional students from the 2016 graduating class.
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activities and events that would bring the student body together and make life at Woodlands more fun. Over the month of November they launched a Walk for Wellness initiative using steps tracking technologies like Fitbit or apps on their phones to try and get the school to an overall step goal. During the stress of finals week, WACOR brought in puppies so that students could spend a couple moments between classes decompressing with puppy therapy. Morris’s favorite WACOR initiative was the Taste of WA, a culinary tour celebrating the diverse cultural backgrounds of the students, faculty, and staff of Woodlands, where people prepare a dish or dessert based on their heritage for everyone else to experience. “I think, with any club, it’s all about making connections and making friends,” Morris says. “That’s what everyone wants to do in high school. Clubs offer
connections with people that have a similar interest with you. Just trying something new or trying a club that may be a little different, you meet so many great people that come from so many different backgrounds.” Woodlands also emphasizes a community service element to education, making sure that over their four years of high school each student volunteers at least 70 service hours to community organizations. “But girls do way more than that,” Morris says. “We start as freshman going to Feed My Starving Children and PADS, a shelter for women and children. I think many of us find it as a passion and stick with it, which is amazing. I’m definitely going to miss Woodlands, but I’m very excited for the challenge and the opportunity of going to college to continue my education.” Next year, Morris will attend the Connell School of Nursing at Boston College.
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“world-class teaching hospital” 30 miles away into virtual presMedicine and a teaching hospi- ence in the emergency room and tal,” McAfee said in a Daily beyond. North Shore interview. “We are “If a patient is brought into educating the next generation of the ER with a stroke, an emercaregivers. We will be able to gency room physician can virtually bring a specialist from consult directly with a Northdowntown Chicago into a Lake western University neurologist,” Forest operating room.” McAfee said. “This saves brain The hospital welcomed its first matter.” group of eight family medicine The benefits of a high-tech residents July 1, 2015, and added academic community hospital its second class this year, accord- go beyond the care patients will ing to McAfee. He said in get, according to Lake Forest another year there will be 24 Mayor Donald Schoenheider. family medicine residents in He said it will be good for the Lake Forest on an ongoing basis. city and the area beyond. Currently, McAfee said the “Having a new state of the art roofs are on all the new buildings hospital here in Lake Forest is “largely” enclosing all the struc- important to our residents and tures; the major mechanical to our efforts to attract both new systems are installed with the members of the community, as fine-tuning ahead to make the well as new businesses, Schoenmedical facility state of the art. heider said in an email to DNS. McAfee said telemedicine is “The fact that it is also conalready in place in the operating nected to one of the world’s rooms but when everything is finest teaching hospitals brings done it will be at a level sophis- even deeper value.” ticated enough to utilize a Before the work began, the
Police: Teen Made School Threats BY EMILY SPECTRE DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
WILMETTE — 13-year-old Wilmette boy faces charges related to numerous threats that were made against local schools in April and June. The teenager is not a District 39 student. The teen faces seven felony counts of disorderly conduct related to false bomb threats, two felony counts of making threats against schools, one felony count abuse of an elderly person and one misdemeanor battery. He was arrested and taken into custody on July 19 by the Wilmette, Winnetka and Glenview police departments. The boy was held overnight at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center and subsequently released on July 20 to his mother pending a hearing. School Superintendent Ray Lechner told parents in an email on July 22 the teenager was not a student of Wilmette public schools. And on July 25
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combination of them. Schoenheider said he already sees ways the community can enjoy the campus for more than health care when the project is complete. “It will not only be a location for health and wellness, but also speaks to our commitment to sustainability and open space and will serve as a great location for events and gatherings in the future,” Schoenheider said. The utility plant, which is already complete and in operation, is a feature that will let the hospital escape the dangers posed by storms with high winds and heavy rain, according to McAfee. With its six gigawatts, it makes Work is ongoing at Lake Forest Hospital. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER. the hospital self sufficient for all hospital occupied a tiny fraction McAfee. He said the current 170 acres a health and wellness its forms of power. of the 170-acre campus. McAfee project uses the large outdoor endeavor. The health and fitness “We could provide power to a said when the effort is done, the area for both an environmen- center (on the campus) has 4,000 small town,” McAfee said. “There extensive grounds will be used tally and aesthetically pleasing members.” can be a tornado and trees down for wellness as well as patient effect. Patients and their families will and we have power for our emercare. “We’re building a six-acre lake not be looking out the window gency room and our operating As in any construction project, with a reflecting pool (enhancing at a parking lot, McAfee said. rooms. When it’s very hot we can drainage of water and its reten- the view) near the main lobby,” They will have views of the lake, use our own power to reduce tion are critical, according to McAfee said. “We’re making the the reflecting pool, trees or some stress on the grid.”
pleased that we had a resolution to this. It is a really good example of inter-governmental cooperation with neighboring police departments,” he said. Initially, police believed the calls were hoax phone calls similar to ones made throughout the country and United Kingdom. But further analysis of phone records eventually led the police to question the WilWilmette Police Chief Brian mette teen. King said he did not know where Wilmette police said the calls the boy attended school. originated from a mobile phone On April 5 and June 7, schools application that led to the teen’s in Wilmette received suspicious electronic device. phone calls that included threats Under a search warrant, the of shootings and bombings at police reviewed the boy’s device. the schools, as well as death to The police allege he placed vulgar specific faculty members, accord- and threatening phone calls to ing to police. the schools as well as other busiOn June 8, Crow Island El- nesses, stores and institutions, ementary School in Winnetka but that he did not have the and Avoca West in Glenview means to carry out the threats. received similar threatening calls. According to the Wilmette At Crow Island the threatening Police Department news release, phone call prompted school of- the teen also was charged with ficials to contact the police, be- elder abuse and domestic battery lieving someone with a gun may after the police reviewed videos have been on school property. on his device that showed the The elementary school was on boy had abused his elderly father. lock-down until police deterChief King noted that this mined the area was safe. type of behavior is not taken Chief King said the Wilmette, lightly. Winnetka and Glenview police “We take these calls very departments have worked to- seriously and they consume a lot gether investigating the origin of of police resources. They are unthe phone calls since June. necessary and cause disruption Deputy Marc Hornstein of to the school day. When the Winnetka Police Depart- someone is identified making ment noted that the case was these types of threats electronicleared through a collaboration cally they will be prosecuted,” of resources. “We are really he said.
ONE WINNETKA Cont. from PG 1 urged the Village Council to move forward. “This proposal return. gives us huge advantages, more Most of the trustees reserved than anything else that may come their comments until a later date, down the line,” he said. noting they were more interested While the Village Council in hearing what the residents had made no decision regarding the to say about the revised plans. But development, some of the trustees Trustee Kristin Ziv seized the expressed their views at this stage. opportunity to express her Trustee Andrew Cripe, who said support of the project — noting he lives close to the project on that it would “fill a hole” in the the corner of Maple and Elm suffering business district — and streets, was pleased with the new urged fellow council members to plan. “I like where we are at with move forward. this project,” he said. Cripe noted “The time has come to grant preliminary approval for the sake of the village,” Ziv said. President Gene Greable provided ample time for residents to come forward and ask questions about the project, some of which focused on details of the project — such as how the garbage would be picked up — to broader questions of the message sent to developers if the project is not approved. Residents continued to question whether the height and density of the project was appropriate for the village. “Stop coming in with such a large variance on height,” Winnetka resident Steve Miller said. But other residents expressed support of a project they viewed as a change in the right direction. “We need to change our community. We need to build this,” Phil Hoza said. Winnetka resident Jeffrey Liss also supported change. “Winnetka is not frozen in time, it changes,” he said. Liss
that the public process has only improved the project. “I think it has gotten better because of community input,” he said. But he also urged the council to move forward. “Let’s set the date. This process has been very long,” he said. Other trustees agreed a lot of progress has been made, and with further discussion, a preliminary vote in September could be a possibility. To view the revised plan go to www.villageofwinnetka.org.
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* Set on almost three acres of incredible sweeping grounds from Sheridan Road to Lake Michigan, there has never been a luxury lake estate offered quite like this one * Timeless and impossible to replicate, this 2o room, seven bedroom, British Colonial with matching Coach House is one of the most recognized houses on Sheridan Road * It is hard to not pass and stare at its beauty and grandeur * Incredible pool with cabana houses perched above the lake * Once you set foot on the enormous private sandy beach with natural landscape, you will escape to another place * As there is simply nothing like this, if you can... you should *
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NORTH SHORE FOODIE
Views Rival Food at Wilmette Golf Club
Wilmette Golf Club Restaurant’s Aloha Burger. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
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ou don’t have to be a golf enthusiast to enjoy eating at the Wilmette Golf Club restaurant. Few restaurants on the North Shore offer such expansive views with great scenery, where diners can relax and enjoy a casual meal. “People love to sit on the patio,” Shannon Whaley, restaurant manager, said. The full-service restaurant is inside the clubhouse and has large windows and an outdoor patio that overlook the 18th green. Mature trees and landscaping surround the course, providing diners with an atmosphere that feels like a private club, but it’s open to the public. The golf course clubhouse was
Manager Shannon Whaley.
rebuilt in 2005, after a fire severely damaged the building two years earlier. The spacious dining room has the atmosphere of a Wisconsin lodge, with a large
fireplace in the center, an open wood beam ceiling and dark green carpeting. The restaurant is operated by Open Kitchens, which cooks
everything fresh to order and also operates the restaurant at the Palatine and Mount Prospect golf courses. Whaley said the chef has been with the Wilmette Golf Club since it was rebuilt. During the prime golf season — spring, summer and fall — the restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And the patio is open for every meal for diners to enjoy. Breakfast is served until 2 p.m., making it a decent brunch spot as well. The breakfast menu offers diners many egg choices, from a variety of omelettes to eggs Benedict or steak and eggs. There’s even a sunrise burger topped with bacon, egg and cheese, or silver dollar pancakes and French toast if eggs are not your thing. Lunch features an assortment of casual fair such as sandwiches,
salads and burgers. Whaley said that the California Wrap, which includes a choice of chicken or turkey topped with avocado, bacon, Monterey jack cheese and Chipotle mayonnaise, is a popular choice. Diners also love the club’s chili and Monte Cristo sandwiches. Dinner is also casual and family friendly. The menu offers ribeye steak, a fiesta chicken that includes blackened chicken breast served with a black bean and corn salsa, and a few fish dishes. Speaking of fish, every Friday beginning the first Friday of Lent, the club offers a fish fry. Whaley said the fish fry is a very popular night at the restaurant, when they offer up fried perch, cod and shrimp, as well as some pasta dishes, salmon and tilapia. The restaurant is popular with
golfers and non-golfers alike. Whaley estimated that about half of the restaurant clients do not play golf. Local clubs will hold luncheon meetings at the restaurant, including the Wilmette Optimists and a Morton Grove ladies group. The welcoming atmosphere is such that it is not uncommon to see diners playing card games, such as bridge or canasta, or the Chinese tile game mahjong. There are two large flat screen televisions always showing sports — mostly golf — and a fully stocked bar that players tend to stop at after they’ve finished a round of golf. Whaley said she thinks it is the welcoming atmosphere that makes it a favorite spot for many people. “Everyone is really friendly. The atmosphere is inviting,” she said.
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North Shorts Musings by Mike Lubow
“A North Shore Story”
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he man teased, “You North Shore kids sure have a lot of high school reunions.” His wife smiled, “We’re not kids any more, but thanks.” They were enjoying dinner at a table for two in one of the outdoor cafes that sprout up around here every summer. She’d been talking about an upcoming reunion. In the quiet, open air of early evening, eavesdropping on their conversation was unavoidable. As he sipped a beer, the man reminded his wife that her class had a reunion not long ago. And this new one wouldn’t even be for a milestone year. Just an odd year. “Odd,” he said, setting down his beer. This drink was an uncommon choice, as most diners were having wine, or a Kool-Aidcolored martini. “Sorry, honey,” she said. “You didn’t grow up on the North Shore. You just can’t understand.” He nodded, and agreed that she was right about his far-off, big-city high school holding few sentimental attachments. As they ate, he gazed at the village streetscape around them. Buildings with gabled rooftops. Old-fashioned lampposts. Rows of summertime trees. He looked at the glowing lanterns on the outdoor cafe’s tables and the casual, comfortable diners. You can almost read this guy’s mind, and figure you know where the conversation is going. You continue to listen in. “Well,” he said. “I’m not sorry I didn’t grow up around here. “Because,” he added with a smile, “if I did, I’d probably take it for granted, and never appreciate how cool this place is.” His wife smiled. “It is pretty cool, isn’t it?”
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SOCIALS JCYS ANNUAL GALA Photography by Larry Miller
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5bed/4.1ba
438BIRCH.INFO Milena Birov
$1,995,000
GLENCOE
5bed/4.2ba
147LAKE.INFO 847.881.0200 Debbie Scully
$1,725,000
WINNETKA 5bed/4.1ba
436LINDENST.INFO 847.432.0700 Monica Sofranko
$1,389,000
WILMETTE
5bed/4.1ba
$1,299,000
1005MOHAWKROAD.INFO 847.881.0200 Carrie Tarzon
847.881.0200
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LAKE BLUFF 5bed/4.1ba
$1,235,000
307NEWMAN.INFO Megan Jordan
WILMETTE 4bed/3.1ba
1000PAWNEERD.INFO Eileen Quinn
NORTHFIELD 3bed/1.1ba
337WAGNER.INFO Natasha Miller
WILMETTE 7bed/4.1ba
$1,199,000
342GREENLEAFAVE.INFO 847.295.0700 Jeff Holcomb
$989,000
HIGHLAND PARK 5bed/4.1ba
$899,000
HIGHLAND PARK
5bed/2.1ba
WILMETTE 5bed/3.1ba
$1,125,000
1812WILMETTE.INFO 847.763.0200 Annika Valdiserri
$799,000
LAKE FOREST
3bed/2.1ba
$770,000
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WINNETKA 4bed/3.1ba
$755,000
443HILLSIDE.INFO 461ORCHARD.INFO 592WHARTON.INFO 1152OAK.INFO 847.998.0200 Wexler/Gault Group 847.432.0700 Albiani/Ackerman 847.432.0700 Lisa Hathaway 847.295.0700 Grinstead/Richwine 847.881.0200
$449,000
HIGHLAND PARK 4bed/3.1ba
2880WESTERNAVE.INFO 847.881.0200 Pickus/Schulkin
$449,000
HIGHLAND PARK
3bed/2ba
597GREENBAY.INFO 847.432.0700 Robin Wilson
$358,000
847.881.0200
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WILMETTE
4bed/3.1ba
$1,290,000
WILMETTE 5bed/4ba
$1,185,000
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34CANTERBURYCT.INFO 1935KENILWORTH.INFO Mary Baubonis 847.881.0200 Kathryn&KellyMangel 847.881.0200
WINNETKA
4bed/3.1ba
HIGHLAND PARK 99ROGERWILLIAMS.INFO WEXLER/GAULT GROUP
$1,075,000
422RIDGE.INFO Beverly Smith
847.881.0200
WILMETTE 4bed/2.2ba
$730,000
LAKE FOREST 5bed/3ba
$659,000
1018ILLINOISROAD.INFO 529BEVERLY.INFO Jill Blabolil 847.763.0200 Adele Curtis
SPRING PRAIRIE, WI 4bed/2ba
$795,000
LONG BEACH, IN 3bed/4ba
$1,150,000
HIGHLAND PARK 4bed/2.1ba
$599,000
HIGHLAND PARK 4bed/2ba
44TURNBULLWOODS.INFO 358FLORA.INFO 847.295.0700 Pickus/Schulkin 847.432.0700 Albiani/Ackerman
SOUTH HAVEN, MI 5bed/4.1ba
$2,325,000
STEVENSVILLE, MI 4bed/3.1ba
$1,450,000
N6444CHURCHRD.INFO 2933LAKESHOREDR.INFO 3STREAMWOOD.INFO 5636DUNHAM.INFO Margaret Canfield 262.949.9272 Will Schauble 312.860.4192 Jackson Matson 269.214.0240 Liz Roch 312.636.8751
$2,399,900 5BED/4.3BA 847.432.0700
$449,000
847.432.0700
• 120 HARBOR | GLENCOE 5BED/5.3BATH $3,275,000 • 1035 SHERIDAN | WINNETKA 8BED/10.2BATH $13,750,000 • 333 WILLOW | WINNETKA 8BED/10.2BATH $9,875,000 • 910 PRIVATE | WINNETKA 6BED/7.2BATH $4,575,000 • 560 OAK | WINNETKA 6BED/5.1BATH $3,475,000 NEW PRICE • 826 LOCUST | WINNETKA 414 WARWICK | KENILWORTH 6BED/5.1BATH $2,875,000 6 BED / 6.1 BATH $4,449,000 • 830 LOCUST | WINNETKA 6BED/5.1BATH $2,395,000 www.heritageluxury.com • 438 BIRCH | WINNETKA 5BED/4.1BATH $1,995,000
*MRED NORTH SHORE CLOSED VOLUME, $1M+: 1/1/15-12/31/15
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OPEN HOUSES 1. 58 E. Center Ave. LAKE BLUFF Open Sunday 1-3PM $199,000 Marie Colette, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0816 2. 130 E. North Ave. LAKE BLUFF Open Sunday 2-4PM $499,900 Jack Comerford, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0485
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3. 391 Belle Foret Drive LAKE BLUFF Open Sunday 1-3PM $1,025,000 Proximity Partners, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors 847.234.0485
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4. 667 Oak LAKE BLUFF Sunday 2-4 $559,000 Patricia Carter, Coldwell Banker 847-234-8000
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5. 114 E. Woodland Rd LAKE BLUFF Sunday 1-3 $1,149,000 Pat Carollo, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.951.8817
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6. 131 W. Blodgett Ave LAKE BLUFF Sunday 1-3 $509,000 Martha Pedersen, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.687.2946 7. 972 Beverly Place LAKE FOREST Open Sunday 1-3PM $889,000 Elizabeth Wieneke, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0485
15. 1000 E. Illinois LAKE FOREST Sunday 1-3 $3,300,000 Chris Downey, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.340.8499 16. 948 Morningside LAKE FOREST Sunday 1-3 $699,000 Dick Christoph, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.507.6677
8. 1260 N. Western Ave. #305 LAKE FOREST Open Sunday 12-2PM $349,000 McKechney&Moreland Team, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0816
17. 40 Rue Foret LAKE FOREST Sunday 2-4 $1,699,000 Mona Hellinga, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.814.1855 18. 421 Greenwood Ave LAKE FOREST Sunday 1-3 $719,800 Mike Smith, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 708.227.4669 19. 991 Ashley Rd. LAKE FOREST Sunday 1-3 $1,395,000 Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty, Eileen Campbell 312.751.0300 20. 1230 N. Western Ave #111 LAKE FOREST Sunday 12-2 $374,000 Jim Warfield, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.961.0134 21. 1350 N. Western Ave #207 LAKE FOREST Sunday 12-2 $385,000 Suzie Hempstead, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.910.8465 22. 1350 N. Western Ave #202 LAKE FOREST Sunday 12-2 $310,000 Lyon Martini Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.828.9991 23. 145 Wildwood Rd. LAKE FOREST Sunday, 1pm-3pm $825,000 Chris Yore, Baird & Warner 847-804-2879
9. 1030 Oak Grove Lane LAKE FOREST Open Sunday 2-4PM $699,000 Linda Smith, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0485 10. 1230 N. Western, #205 LAKE FOREST Sunday 12-2 $359,000 Lori Baker, Coldwell Banker 847-234-8000 11. 870 Beverly Place LAKE FOREST Sunday 1-4 $629,000 Chris Melchior, Coldwell Banker 847-234-8000 12. 200 N. Sheridan Rd LAKE FOREST Sunday 11-1 $1,199,000 Marcia Rowley, Coldwell Banker 847-234-8000 13. 635 E. Illinois LAKE FOREST Sunday 2-4 $697,000 Mary Kay Brunner-Dasse, Coldwell Banker 847-234-8000 14. 531 Buena LAKE FOREST Sunday 1-3 $879,000 Mary Kay Brunner-Dasse, Coldwell Banker 847-234-8000
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25. 1132 Pine Oaks Cir. LAKE FOREST Sunday, 1pm-3pm $445,000 Joan Maxwell, Baird & Warner 847-404-7763 26, 1061 S Ridge Rd. LAKE FOREST Sunday, 12pm-2pm $569,000 Brunhild Baass, Baird & Warner 847.804.0092 27. 980 W Old Mill Rd. LAKE FOREST Sunday, 2:30pm-4:30pm $969,000 Brunhild Baass, Baird & Warner 847.804.0092 28. 2122 Wilmot Road BANNOCKBURN Sunday 2-4 $1,275,000 Lynne Butler, Coldwell Banker Residential 847-945-7100 29. 332 Walker Ave. HIGHLAND PARK Open Sunday 1-3PM $289,000 Flor Hasselbring, Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors® 847.234.0816 30. 1985 Hidden Ridge Lane HIGHLAND PARK Sunday 1-3 $1,250,000 Martha Glass, Baird and Warner 847.845.6616 31. 2599 St. Johns HIGHLAND PARK Sunday 1-3 $649,000 Beth Alberts & Stephanie Maletsky, Baird & Warner 847-951-2007 32. 178 Lakewood Place HIGHLAND PARK Sunday 1-3 $899,000 Karen Skurie, Baird and Warner 847-361-4687 33. 980 Burton HIGHLAND PARK Sunday 1:30-3:30 Ann Bickmore, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage 847-609-1421 34. 1311 Lincoln Ave HIGHLAND PARK SUNDAY 1-3 $875,000 Carole Rosenberg, @properties 847.881.0200 35. 2000 Green Bay Rd #308 HIGHLAND PARK Sunday 1-4 Linda Barbera-Stein, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage 847-372-9850 36. 935 Villas Ct HIGHLAND PARK Sunday 1-3 $519,000 Open Vicki Tenner, Coldwell Banker - Deerfield 847-946-4000 37. 319 Basswood Drive NORTHBROOK SUNDAY 12-2 $395,000 Kerry B. Wolfe, @properties 847.432.0700
38. 7 Timber Lane NORTHBROOK Sunday 11-1 Jacquie Lewis, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage 847-858-2155 39. 182 Wellington Road NORTHBROOK Sunday 1-3 $429,000 Judy Simon, Coldwell Banker 847-507-1924
50. 669 Walden WINNETKA Sunday 1-3 $1,595,000 Julie Bradbury Miller, The Hudson Company 847.751.2619
40. 937 Forestway Drive GLENCOE SUNDAY 1-3 $749,000 Paige Manley Canepari, @properties 847.881.0200
52. 797 Pine Street WINNETKA Sunday 12:00-4:00 $1,349,900 Kristilyn Golt, Olin Ray Realty Partners LLC 847-778-8868
41. 904 Vernon GLENCOE Sunday 1-3 $825,000 Carrie Healy, Jean Wright Real Estate 847-507-7666
53. 170 Woodland WINNETKA Sunday 12:00-4:00 $1,499,900 Kristilyn Golt, Olin Ray Realty Partners LLC 847-778-8868 54. 240 Green Bay Road WINNETKA Sunday 1-3:00 The Skirving Team, Coldwell Banker Winnetka 847-924-4119 /847-863-3614
42. 205 Franklin GLENCOE Sunday 1-3 $2,400,000 Chris Downey, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.340.8499 43. 308C Frontage Rd NORTHFIELD Sunday 12-2 $229,000 Diane Baer, The Hudson Company 847.648.8348 44. 2291 Birchwood NORTHFIELD Sunday 1-4 $1,645,000 Kelly Lundin, The Hudson Company 847.542.5648 45. 842 Oak WINNETKA Sunday 12-2 $749,000 Mary Ann Kollar, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.421.1188 46. 850 Lamson WINNETKA Sunday 2-4 $1,875,000 Sherry Molitor, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.204.6282 47. 893 Elm Street WINNETKA SUNDAY 1-4 $1,385,000 Alla Kimbarovsky, @properties 847.432.0700 48. 997 Vine Street WINNETKA SUNDAY 12-2 $1,345,000 Kotz/Maman, @properties 847.881.0200 49. 422 Ridge Avenue WINNETKA SUNDAY 12-2 $1,075,000 Beverly Smith, @properties 847.881.0200
51. 1091 Cherry WINNETKA Sunday 1-3 $835,000 Carrie Healy, Jean Wright Real Estate 847-507-7666
55. 245 Washington Rd GLENVIEW Sunday 12-1:30 $349,000 Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty, Aaron Masliansky 312.751.0300 56. 2015 Wagner Road GLENVIEW SUNDAY 12-2 $689,000 Karin Zawaski, @properties 847.881.0200 57. 1519 Winnetka Road GLENVIEW SUNDAY 11-2 $399,000 Larry Kent, @properties 847.881.0200 58. 1946 Greenwood WILMETTE Sunday 1-3 $1,120,000 Betsy Burke, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.565.4264 59. 1140 Sheridan WILMETTE Sunday 1-4 $2,150,000 Bree Misiak, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff 847.421.9928 60. 1125 Sherman Avenue EVANSTON SUNDAY 2:30-4:30 $549,000 Beverly Smith, @properties 847.881.0200 61. 1810 Main Street EVANSTON SUNDAY 1-3 $360,000 Sheryl Troop, @properties 847.432.0700
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is “baseball career” basically was at a standstill. He was at a crossroads. Jack Falk, who will be a senior at New Trier High School, had to do something bold and dramatic. Something rash. Something tidechanging. Something … underhanded. Deception — the permittable kind — had to be put into play. “The only way for me to make the varsity baseball team [at New Trier] was to convert,” Falk says. “I had to become a submariner.” Pitching like former Major League relievers Dan Quisenberry and Ted Abernathy has given this former “light-hitting” backup catcher a new lease on his baseball life. “Jack had to find a way to distinguish himself,” says Paul Kosinski, a pitching guru at The Strike Zone Baseball Academy in Glenview. “The writing was on the wall. “I told him, ‘Take a look at what else you can do [on a baseball field],” Kosinski adds. “He told me that he liked to pitch. But he fell into that group of six or seven guys who were exactly like him. You’re not going to bowl hitters over throwing [overhand] at 69 to 73 miles per hour.” Falk didn’t need much convincing. And he didn’t exactly proceed with caution. He went all in last fall. He submerged himself. Worked real hard at it. “I’ve done conversions with other guys, but I’ve never had a guy immerse himself into it like Falk did,” Kosinski adds. “It took him about four pitches to fall in love with it.” Following the likes of Andrew Earvolino, Dan Douaire and Jeff Snell, Falk has become “The Next” in a growing list of submarine-style pitchers at New Trier. Trevians head coach Mike Napoleon, who is closing in on 900 career wins, takes a liking to submariners. “ ‘Naps’ [particularly] likes submariners who throw strikes,” says Kosinski, who spent seven years on NT’s coaching staff. “And Jack is a strike thrower.” The same holds true for Earvolino, Douaire and Snell. “Finding guys to throw strikes is the most important part,” New Trier pitching coach Scott Klipo-
‘SIDE’ SHOW: Submariner Jack Falk delivers a pitch during action this past spring. He finished his junior season 8-for-8 in save opportunities. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER
wicz says. “And all of these guys were strike machines. They’re pumping strikes as soon as they get in there.” Despite being only 6-foot and 150 pounds, he was the Incredible Falk this past spring. There was nothing fictional about his final numbers: eight saves in eight save opportunities. In 21.2 innings, he allowed 17 hits while striking out 23 batters and walking only six. The right-hander gave up a grand total of three earned runs. His ERA was 0.96. His WHIP was 1.062. Napoleon has seen this type of success before. “In 2014, as a junior, Earvolino didn’t give up an earned run all year,” Napoleon says. “Andrew and Jack have the same story,” says Kosinski. Earvolino has not lost his ef-
fectiveness. This past spring, as a freshman relief pitcher at Division III Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, the right-hander surrendered only eight hits in 13 innings with 16 Ks. Meanwhile, Snell, a cousin of Earvolino, was NT’s first submariner and started the trend. But he was a bit different. His fastball checked in at 80 miles per hour. Snell, a 2008 NT grad, went on to have a successful career at Division I Lafayette College. He was a two-time team MVP pitcher for the Leopards. In 2011, he collected six saves to go along with a 1.67 ERA. In four seasons, he ended up with 18 saves. “It’s nice having a submariner in the arsenal,” says Klipowicz. “Trying something different and going with a new approach was a
gamble for these guys. But it worked out. “The original plan was to maybe use them for just a couple batters at a time. To get a couple of outs,” Klipowicz adds. “But then, it expanded to a couple of innings.” Like Earvolino (5-8, 145), Falk’s low-70s fastball doesn’t strike fear in opposing hitters. “Speed is not everything,” says Falk. Results are. Having a deceptive delivery certainly worked in Falk’s favor this spring. He baffled hitters by constantly changing speeds and adding movement. Opposing hitters especially were at a loss, when he came out of the bullpen to relieve hard-throwing Ben Brecht — a 6-7 lefthander headed to the University of California-Santa Barbara.
“Facing Brecht, who is throwing in the 90s, and then facing me couldn’t be any different,” says Falk. “It had an effect on hitters.” Falk’s repertoire — fastball, curve and changeup — can be downright menacing to righthanded hitters. “He gets a lot of weak swings for strikeouts,” states Klipowicz. “And a lot of his pitches are tapped right back to him.” Submariners are rare. So the early advantage in a typical at-bat goes to Falk. “A lot of times, opposing hitters are seeing a pitcher like me for the first time,” says Falk. Thus, a take sign is in their heads. “Jack gets it. He knows how important strike one is. He knows how important it is for him to get ahead of a hitter,” Kosinski adds.
“On average, a pitcher has 3 ½ pitches to get a guy out. Which is why strike one is so important. For Jack to have success, he has to get strike one. If a hitter sees four or more pitches from him, there’s a good chance that he’ll get lit up.” “We don’t want to see him get into a hitter’s count, especially if our opponent is rallying and has a couple guys on base,” says Klipowicz. “He’s done a pretty good job of avoiding that.” Remarkably, despite having very little pitching in his background — “To say that I pitched during my sophomore year [on the sophomore team] is a stretch,” says Falk. “I pitched maybe four innings all year.” — Falk rose to prominence pretty quickly. “Jack has a good makeup for a relief pitcher,” says Klipowicz. “He’s got good poise. He’s stoic. He can get pumped up, but for the most part he does a good job of maintaining his composure.” “He’s got a reliever’s mentality,” says Kosinski. “He’s good at doing what he’s got to do. He doesn’t overthink or overanalyze things. In fact, he’s kind of oblivious to things — but in a good way. “And his stuff,” Kosinski adds, “is insanely deceptive.” Working to improve never ends for Falk. “One of the hardest parts about pitching this way is to know how low can you go and still be able to have control and fool hitters at the same time,” Falk says. Napoleon didn’t waste any time testing his latest submariner this past spring. Falk appeared in two of the three games for the Trevians during their spring trip in Collierville, Tennessee. And by the time New Trier (27-10), which finished one win shy of the Class 4A state tournament, went up against one of its major Central Suburban League South Division rivals, Falk was not overwhelmed by the big moment. On April 19 in a league game at Evanston, Falk worked out of a no outs, bases-loaded situation to save a 3-1 victory for NT. He did it in crafty fashion. He got out of the mess by recording back-to-back strikeouts. And that is how you … “distinguish” yourself.
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Former Highland Park High School basketball standouts to hold camp for Deutsch Foundation BY BILL MCLEAN, SPORTS@NORTHSHOREWEEKEND.COM
GUARDS PAYING FORWARD: Chris Wroblewski (left) and Zack Meuser will co-direct the upcoming Elite Skills co-ed basketball camp. The proceeds will benefit The Rory David Deutsch Foundation. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
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ack Meuser did not know Rory David Deutsch. Nor did Chris Wroblewski. The former Highland Park High School basketball players have known Rory’s father, Ross Deutsch, for years, and it was one of the reasons the Chicago residents found themselves at their alma mater’s sparkling new gymnasium earlier this week. “That’s a gift, an amazing one, seeing Zack and Chris here today [Aug. 1] and knowing what they’re preparing to do for my family,” said Ross Deutsch, a longtime boys varsity assistant basketball coach at HPHS. Meuser and Wroblewski plan to run an inaugural Elite Skills Basketball camp for high schooland middle school-aged hoopsters at the Recreation Center of Highland Park on Sept. 10-11. All proceeds from the co-ed camp
will benefit The Rory David Deutsch Foundation. Rory was a month shy of turning 7 when he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in February 1998. He had complained of a sore left wrist, after playing tennis indoors one day. The next day he could not make a fist with his left wrist. Ross and his wife, Mindy, took their first born to a doctor. An appointment was made to see a neurologist. Rory underwent a brain scan at a hospital. The tumor had settled in his brain stem. Rory David Deutsch died sixth months later. “What Ross and Mindy must have had to go through … tragic, what a tragedy,” Meuser, a 2007 HPHS graduate and a wealth advisor for Mesirow Financial, said. “When Chris and I thought
about putting together this camp [after Wroblewski and another HPHS basketball graduate, Josh Bartelstein, ran a summer basketball camp in Highland Park last summer], the first thing we decided was, ‘Let’s do this for a cause.’ The first cause we thought about was the foundation for Rory.” The Rory David Deutsch Foundation has raised more than $8 million since 1998. Eight. Million. Most funds are earmarked for pediatric brain cancer research. There is a professorship in Rory’s name at Duke University, where Mike Krzyzewski — a close friend of Ross and a perennial Rory David Deutsch Foundation benefactor — coaches men’s basketball. There is an endowment in Rory’s name at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. “We hope to accomplish two
things during the camp,” Meuser, a four-year varsity point guard at HPHS and a University of Michigan graduate, said. “One, how you can improve as a basketball player. Two, to understand you’re a part of something bigger, something great, when you’re a member of a team. There’s so much more to basketball than the individual and the individual accomplishments.” Wroblewski (HPHS, ’08), a shooting guard and another fouryear varsity hoopster for Giants teams, played basketball at Cornell University, helping the Big Red reach the Sweet 16 at the NCAA Tournament in 2010 — his sophomore season. “Ross was at the game,” said Wroblewski, who works for the Goldman Sachs assets management group in Chicago. “He also showed up for my last game in Ithaca [New York, in 2012]. That
meant so much to me, each time. Ross is a father figure, an instrumental figure, in many of his players’ lives. I’ve known him since the fourth grade, maybe the third grade. He’s been a constant. “When I played in high school, he wasn’t concerned about just basketball. Ross was also about the grand scheme, the bigger picture, life lessons you could learn through basketball.” Ross Deutsch, a former trader, remembers Rory as a fun-loving, happy, social child. Rory loved the Bulls and the Cubs … Ross’ favorite teams. Mindy remembers Rory as an old soul, a friendly-tothe-bone child. “Rory,” Ross said, “is the reason I pursued my passion — coaching. I met [HPHS boys varsity coach] Paul Harris in the summer of 2002, at Elm Place School, months after his team made it to
state [Elite Eight]. He’s a good friend, and I still consider him my mentor.” Ross and Mindy have four children: sons Robbie, 23, and Rickey, 21; daughters Reggi, 17, and Roxie, 15. The kids ‘R’ all right, siblings forever of a boy who enjoyed learning about the planets and anything else related to the solar system. Rory liked to look up and marvel. A couple of former HPHS stars can’t wait to inspire kids on a basketball court next month. Can’t wait to dish an assist to the Rory David Deutsch Foundation. For more information about the North Shore Elite camps and to register for either one day ($75) or two ($125), please visit the eventbrite web pages. Type “eventbrite north shore elite basketball camp”.
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e did not hit a walkoff grand slam in a varsity playoff game. Somebody else, the team’s star, did, no surprise. Except for a handful of baseball games in his only varsity season, his senior season, he watched his Lake Forest High School teammates pitch and hit and run and field from his spot in a dugout. Adam Kwiatt accepted his role. Never complained. Never punched the inside of his glove and demanded, “Put me in, Coach!” Putting on a varsity uniform was a privilege to him. The Adam Kwiatt Baseball Story is an unconventional one for a media outlet. It is also one worth telling. Baseball-loving kid beats odds more than once, experiences joy, endures heartbreak. Resiliency and commitment and perseverance join hands to lift him during the heartbreak. Baseballloving kid generates resolve and experiences joy again. “One of the best teammates I’ve ever had,” Cal Coughlin, an infielder/pitcher and a 2016 LFHS graduate, says of Kwiatt, also a ’16 LFHS graduate. Coughlin? He hit a walkoff grand slam in a playoff game in ’16. NO QUIT IN KWIATT: Adam Kwiatt (No. 1) huddles with teammates, including Jason Cast, Nick Zacher and Cal Coughlin, during a Lake The Adam Kwiatt Baseball Story started a little more than three years ago, in a gymnasium at LFHS. He and the rest of the baseball players hoping to make one of the program’s two freshman teams entered it on the first day of tryouts, in the spring of 2013. Kwiatt, his eyes bigger than baseballs, looked around and looked up, surveying his competition. He made an observation. He kept the observation to himself. “I was the smallest guy in the gym, by far,” Kwiatt recalls. “I had just reached 5 feet.” The middle infielder fielded ground balls, unusually fast ones, because a gymnasium’s hardwood doesn’t tame a baseball like infield grass does. Kwiatt’s quick feet and quick hands and baseball instincts allowed his glove to trap ground ball after ground ball after ground ball. “The coaches eventually had a game going, seeing who could hit a ball past me,” Kwiatt says. None of the coaches won the game. Kwiatt, winner, gobbled up
Forest High School baseball game this past spring. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
every bouncing — no, every scooting — bullet. Kwiatt and the other hopefuls showed up for four more days of tryouts. Kwiatt made it, as a ‘B’ teamer for most the season, as an ‘A’ teamer when an ill starter had to sit out for a stretch of games. Three batted balls found Kwiatt at shortstop in one inning in his first ‘A’ game. He fielded all of them cleanly. He made the sophomore baseball team in ’14, after playing summer league ball for the Scouts. Kwiatt sought to become a varsity baseball player one year later, after another summer league season. Day One of the tryouts arrived. Kwiatt looked around again and surveyed the competition again. “I was still the smallest,” he says. No matter. He’d show them, show them all, he was still worth a look, still a viable candidate for a roster spot. The smallest guy in the varsity crop stood 5-foot-6 and weighed 140 pounds. It is hard to weigh enthusiasm, but
Kwiatt had at least a ton of it. Optimism? He owned plenty of that, too, his body language expressing it clearly whenever he swung a bat or squeezed a grounder. On the last day of tryouts, Scouts varsity coach Ray Del Fava and Scouts assistant coach Bill San Hamel had some news and a proposal for Kwiatt. The news wasn’t good. “It came down to my size and my arm,” Kwiatt says, “My arm strength, it just wasn’t strong enough, and the varsity had high expectations that year, with a lot of returning guys, with a lot of very good players. We had Cal [Coughlin, a transfer from Carmel Catholic and a Division I prospect]. I’d always been able to work around my limitations in baseball, overcome them. They didn’t have room for me. They cut me.” The news stung him. Baseball had been Kwiatt’s spring thing, his fun escape. He’d wake up, look forward to hitting the diamond, attend school, hit the diamond, go home, hang out with his dogs
(Heidi and Shasta) and do it all over again the next day. There was comfort in his routine. Baseball would no longer be a part of his routine. Kwiatt absorbed the tough news in front of the coaches. Del Fava and San Hamel then delivered their proposal to the junior. Their pitch, no mound necessary: Would you be interested in being the varsity’s student manager? A Del Fava varsity team at LFHS had never included a student manager. Kwiatt considered the offer and accepted it. “I still wanted to be around baseball,” says Kwiatt, a T-ball and travel baseball player before his freshman year. “I love the sport, always will, and I knew I’d be happy as along as I was anywhere near it.” A little more than a week after he was cut, Kwiatt threw his first batting practice as the team manager. Scouts took their cuts. Scouts liked Kwiatt’s pitch speed and ability to locate the ball. Texas Christian University-bound
Coughlin loved taking BP from Kwiatt. Nobody else could pitch BP to Coughlin — Coughlin’s order. Coughlin sometimes wanted to go another round, and Kwiatt obliged each time. Among Kwiatt’s other duties: hitting grounders to infielders and pop-ups to outfielders; making sure the other team’s lineup got posted in the Scouts’ dugout; keeping the scorebook. He reached beyond-meticulous status as a scorekeeper. If he didn’t like the way he had filled in (using a pencil) a little diamond in the scorebook, he’d erase it and fill it in again. It had to be militarymade-bed neat. “Adam,” Del Fava says, “kept a great book. He could teach a class on keeping a scorebook in baseball. I’m old-school, and when I get home from a game at night, I like to look at the book and recall what happened in the game, inning by inning. Adam made that process easier for me.” The Scouts’ 2015 season ended. Summer rolled around, and Kwiatt
played a third season of summer league ball. He picked up a bat again on Game Days, not a pencil. He hadn’t faced live pitching in what seemed forever. Back in a batter’s box, back into the swing of things. His coat of rust fell off him. Kwiatt was home. On a diamond. Kwiatt had one eye on getting his timing back in the summer and the other on making the 2016 varsity baseball team in he spring. He appeared for the first day of winter workouts for LFHS baseball players in early ’16. “Seeing Adam that day, on that first day, showed me, showed all of us, how determined he was,” classmate and pitcher Matthew Peterson, a Villanova recruit, says. “He was motivated to do what he had to do to be ready [for tryouts]. He was a blood-sweat-and-tears kid when it came to baseball at Lake Forest High School, on and off the field. Loving kid, caring kid. Worked hard, studied hard. You could not have asked for a better teammate than Adam.” Kwiatt made the varsity team in the spring. That meant on Game Days he’d get to put his left sock on first, then his right sock, followed by his left cleat, then his right cleat. His quaint ritual. Del Fava and San Hamel lost a student manager, sort of. [Kwiatt still kept the book for most of the season.] The future University of Illinois animal science major made 12 plate appearances in five games, singling three times in nine at-bats and scoring three runs. He got hit by a pitch twice, walked once, stole a base, drove in a run and finished with an on-base-percentage of .455. Can you see Del Fava at home, scorebook in his hands, recalling what Kwiatt did at the plate in games? Can you see Del Fava nodding? Smiling? “Adam,” Del Fava says, “could have taken the easy way and not come out for baseball in his senior year. Instead, he continued to work and stay positive, and he earned that varsity uniform. He was quiet at first, being a first-year varsity player, but his personality emerged, and he ended up fitting in so well with his teammates. He was selfless, cared about the team. Great to have around. “Adam,” the coach adds, “epitomized the type of person we want to represent our program.”
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Dentist set to put down roots in Wilmette
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he three words made dentist Kenneth Milin laugh. A woman in her 80s had uttered them, from a dentist’s chair, at the end of her New Teeth in One Day appointment. The appointment lasted five hours. The patient had not seen a dentist in decades. She needed implants for her lower teeth, all of them. Eating any kind of food was painful. “She looked up at me and asked, ‘What’s for lunch?’ ” Milin, a North Shore dentist since 1983, recalls, chuckling from a chair — an entirely different kind of chair — at Café Buongiorno in Winnetka, where he had ordered a plateful of avocado and tuna salad, surrounded by mixed fruit and forest-green pieces of lettuce. What’s up with Dr. Milin, 59? He is set to move his office from the old Fell building in Winnetka (732 Elm Street) to 411 Linden Avenue in Wilmette. It pained him to do so, initially, since the Winnetka location has been his workplace for more than three decades. The building was sold way back in 2007, and it rests on a piece of One Winnetka, a proposed development project. Milin intends to welcome his first patient in the Wilmette location this fall, right around Halloween. Trick or … teeth. “I thought I should probably leave before the wrecking ball hits,” the Deerfield resident says. “I wanted to stay in Winnetka; I really did. But now I’m excited
about the opportunity to design a new office and incorporate the latest technological innovations and provide our patients the best possible experience. It’ll maximize light, minimalize sound, and we’ll be sure to maintain the integrity of the building’s architecture. “I was driving around Wilmette one day, a Saturday, when I saw this building for sale, an 85-year-old building that had housed a hardware store. I got out of my car and took a look at it.” He bought it shorty thereafter. The space is 5,500 square feet. Half of it will be dedicated to all things Kenneth N. Milin, D.D.S. and Associates, the other half up for rent. The plan is to plumb six dental chairs, one more than the number in his longtime quarters. His Winnetka space was based on the ground floor. The space on Linden Avenue is a firstfloor layout. “We’re moving up,” Milin says. Milin was born in Skokie and grew up in Lincolnwood. It took him three-and-a-half years to graduate from Niles West High School in Skokie. It took him three-and-a-half years to graduate (as an economics major, top 3 percent of his class) at the University of Illinois. Bright and ambitious and passionate about
Milin says. “I really enjoy what I do, providing service and individualized care for patients. Dentistry is an apprentice-based profession. I believe in evaluation-based dentistry, which is an intersection of care based on literature, my experience and philosophies and my patients’ preferences. “I like to interact with my patients when I first m e e t them,
work.” In ’83, Year One, only one chair sat in Milin’s office. His client base steadily grew, paving the way to a staff of two hygienists, two assistants and two receptionists. Milin lectured. Milin contributed to scientific literature in his field. Milin lectured some more. Word of mouth drew more new clients to 732 Elm Street. Sight of teeth belonging to Milin’s patients lured others. Out of the office, out of the country, the good dentist can never get his fill behind a camera. Milin’s eye for clicking beauty during a vacation ranks right up there with his eye for sculpting the teeth of an eye-catching smile. Large, framed photographs of his best artwork hang on the walls in his Winnetka office. They won’t get lost in the move to the Wilmette office. One of his favorites is an image of Iguazu Falls, near the border of Argentina and Brazil, snapped four years ago. A bird glides in the distance above the Argentinian side, quite a contrast to the rage of the falls. A faint rainbow also adorns the shot. when “That is such a magnificent t h e y ’re part of the world,” Milin says. “I not wearing love traveling. I love seeing beauKenneth Milin, D.D.S. the ‘napkin’, some- tiful sights for the first time.” Milin and his wife, Nicki, celtimes for more than a hour. I like learning, he liked to exceed the Chicago. Nobody else in his to listen. I tell each patient, ebrate 35 years of marriage this safe speed limit in his Education family had pursued the vocation. remind each patient, ‘You have month. They have two adult vehicles. The undergraduate He completed his general prac- control [in the dentist-patient children, Samantha and James. course that intrigued him the tice residency at the University relationship].’ I see a variety of “The most important part of most was chemistry. The field of of Chicago, extracting a wealth patients, some wanting a thor- my life, my family,” a smilin’ Milin dentistry called him; he answered of knowledge from six impactful ough explanation of what they says. “My wife is wonderful. My it, leading him to the University professors. need, some preferring to put the kids are wonderful. “I’ve been blessed, so blessed,” headphones on and let me go to “I’ve been blessed.” of Illinois School of Dentistry, in
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1190 e WestLeiGh road, Lake Forest
3 Bedrooms, 2.1 Baths
972 BeverLy pLaCe, Lake Forest www.972Beverly.info
$889,000
$1,199,000
www.1190Westleigh.info
NEW PRICE!
1030 oak Grove Lane, Lake Forest
4 Bedrooms, 2.1 Baths
www.1030OakGrove.info
$699,000
www.17North.info
$299,000
142 e sheridan road, Lake BLuFF
5 Bedrooms, 3.1 Baths
www.142Sheridan.info
$1,089,000
OPEN SUNDAY! NEW PRICE! 2 - 4 PM
130 e north avenue, Lake BLuFF
3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths
www.130North.info
$499,900
332 WaLker avenue, hiGhLand park
58 e Center avenue, unit 58, Lake BLuFF
www.332Walker.info
www.58Center.info
2 Bedrooms, 1.1 Baths
www.449Illinois.info
$1,350,000
391 BeLLe Foret drive, Lake BLuFF
$1,025,000
5 Bedrooms, 4.2 Baths
www.391BelleForet.info
OPEN SUNDAY! 12 - 2 PM
1260 n Western avenue #305, Lake Forest 2 Bedrooms, 2 Baths
www.1260Western.info
OPEN SUNDAY! 1 - 3 PM
OPEN SUNDAY! 1 - 3 PM
17 e north avenue, unit 2, Lake BLuFF
449 e iLLinois road, Lake Forest
4 Bedrooms, 3.1 Baths
OPEN SUNDAY! 1 - 3 PM
OPEN SUNDAY! NEW PRICE! 2 - 4 PM
5 Bedrooms, 3.1 Baths
3 Bedrooms, 1.1 Baths
511 rosemary road, Lake Forest
4 Bedrooms, 4.1 Baths
$289,000
1 Bedrooms, 1 Baths
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$185,000
280 E. DEERPATH, LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS 60045 | 8 E. SCRANTON AVENUE, LAKE BLUFF, ILLINOIS 60044
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$349,000
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SATURDAY AUGUST 6 | SUNDAY AUGUST 7 2016 | THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
307 NEWMAN COURT, LAKE BLUFF, $1,235,000
THE #1 LUXURY BROKERAGE FIRM IN CHICAGO AND THE NORTH SHORE.
Source: MRED $1 million+ sales, Chicago and North Shore, 1-1-2015 to 12-31-2015.
MEGAN JORDAN, 847.533.2852