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Lake Forest resident Dustin O’Regan was with her husband and 17-year-old daughter at the July 4th parade in downtown Highland Park when the shots rang out. At first, she thought it was just fire-

works, but quickly she and those around her realized it was something very different. But even when the bullets were flying, she says the first instinct of people lined up to view the parade was to look out for each other. “There was this joyous occasion, and the parade had already started, then all of a sudden, the shots are going off. There were so many so fast and at least in my mind

they were firecrackers,” O’Regan, who is Editor-in-Chief of Sheridan Road magazine, says. “I was so impressed with the people because there was a kindness in the chaos. We all had to go north to get away from the gunfire, and people were waving people in cars to go ahead despite the fear they were experiencing.” O’Regan headed home to Lake Forest Continued on PG 6

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with her family and along the way saw police cars from Lake Bluff, Lake County, and the state of Illinois headed in the other direction to respond to the shooting. The response from local police, and from the community, continues. “I want to thank our first responders for their bravery and extraordinary efforts today. Our police and firefighters saved countless lives with their responses—running into danger and taking immediate action to save others,” Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering said in a statement on Monday. “We are grateful for these selfless acts. We know there were members of our community who rendered aid and assistance as well, and we thank each and every one of you for those efforts.” Mayor Rotering also acknowledged numerous agencies for their support, including American Red Cross, World Central Kitchen, Lakeshore Country Club, Northmoor Country Club, Soul and Smoke food truck, Catering by Michaels, Northern Illinois Critical Incident Stress Management, local clergy, and many other individuals and agencies that stepped up to provide food and support for first responders. In addition to the community outreach offered on the day of the shooting, counselors were made available on Tuesday at Highland Park High School for students and community residents who required emotional support. Support for victims of the shooting and

their families was also offered by local organizations and charities that anchor the North Shore communities. “Many of our volunteers, staff, and supporters are from the city or the surrounding area, and as such we spent much of the late morning reaching out to our colleagues and museum family, making sure everyone was safe and accounted for,” said the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in a statement. “Events like the Highland Park Fourth of July Parade are special moments, where families and friends gather to celebrate their community and our great country. An attack on such an event is more than an act of violence, but one of terrorism, attempting to strike fear at a moment when we are standing together in unity.” Among the seven victims of the mass shooting identified when The North Shore Weekend was going to press are Jacki Sundheim, aged 63, a member of The North Shore Congregation of Israel in Glencoe, and Nicolas Toledo, aged 78, who was visiting family in Highland Park from his native Mexico. “There are no words sufficient to express the depth of our grief for Jacki's death and sympathy for her family and loved ones," the congregation said in a statement. "We know you join us in the deepest prayer that Jacki's soul will be bound up in the shelter of God's wings and her family will somehow find comfort and consolation amidst this boundless grief." The shooting prompted cancelations of

other parades on the North Shore as the gunman was still at large until he was caught Monday evening in Lake Forest by North Chicago police. “Due to the shooting in Highland Park, the City of Lake Forest is cancelling the Annual Lake Forest Festival and Fireworks at Deerpath Community Park out of an abundance of caution,” the city said in a statement. “The City extends its deepest condolences to our neighbors in Highland Park.” Highland Park also canceled other community events in the coming weeks, including Food Truck Thursdays, Takeout Tuesday on the Lot, and World Music Fest on the Lot.

As Highland Park and the North Shore continue to come to terms with these tragic events, one thing remains clear. We stand together as a community. “Highland Park is a strong community, closely knit with shared values, priorities, and partnerships that were so clearly evident among the organizations, individuals, businesses, and entertainers participating in our parade today,” said a representative from the City of Highland Park in a statement released Monday. “As we grieve together as a community, we need to support each other as a community. In the aftermath of this unthinkable tragedy, we are stronger together.”

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A LAWYER’S LAWYER, BAR NONE THE WORLD LOST MORE THAN A GIFTED, HIGHLY RESPECTED ATTORNEY WITH THE PASSING OF LONGTIME HIGHLAND PARK RESIDENT DONALD LUBIN LAST MONTH. IT’S NOW MINUS AN ARDENT FAMILY MAN, FRIEND, MENTOR, AND PHILANTHROPIST. BY BILL MCLEAN THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

Dentons Senior Counsel Linda Chaplik Harris hoped for one thing whenever she’d drive esteemed colleague Donald G. Lubin from their law office in Chicago to his home in Highland Park. Traffic—the congested, patience-fraying kind. “It elated me when we had to endure it, because that meant I’d get to spend more time listening to Don tell his wonderful stories, ones filled with vivid details,” recalls Harris, who has worked for the global firm Dentons (formerly Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal) since 1976. “After we got off the ramp on our drive, I’d even slow down to make sure we’d hit as many red lights as possible. I treasured every minute of every commute home with Don.” Lubin’s remarkable, impactful life—as a loving father of four and the spouse of the former Amy Schwartz for 66 years, as Dentons’ second chairman, as a consummate lawyer and mentor, as a humble titan in philanthropy, and as the eulogist at the funerals of at least 15 nonrelatives—ended at his home on June 5. He was 88. Lubin’s humility was legendary, though he never would have characterized it as so. But Harris has, and Lubin manifested the trait during his 90-minute State of the Firm address at Sonnenschein’s inaugural partners retreat in Chicago. “Don had recently been named chairman and asked me to help plan the retreat, to put the programming of the event together,” Harris says. “In his speech he mentioned numerous new clients, litigation victories, and deals that had been closed in the year. But he never mentioned any of his clients, any of his cases, any of his deals. Instead, Don—our firm’s principal rainmaker—used the retreat as an opportunity to highlight the work of the firm’s other partners. It was amazing. “I’m sitting there, thinking, ‘There’s a lesson here.’ He was the most humble man you could ever meet. You can’t talk about Don Lubin without being stunned by how humble he was.” Born in Brooklyn, New York, and a graduate of the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania, Lubin met his future wife when he was in his first week at Harvard Law School and Amy was a

Remembering the life of Highland Park attorney Donald Lubin. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBIN SUBAR

Wellesley College student. The couple relocated to Chicago in 1957, when Lubin accepted a position as an associate at Sonnenschein, and they moved to the first of their two Highland Park houses in 1962. Their second abode was used to film scenes in the 1992 movie Prelude to a Kiss, starring Alec Baldwin and Meg Ryan. Mr. and Mrs. Lubin raised sons Peter, Richard, and Tom, and daughter Alice. “My father loved routine, especially in the early years of his law career,” says Tom, who was a lawyer for three years before choosing to become an entrepreneur in 1992. “My mom would drive him to the Highland Park train station every workday so he could take the 8:08 a.m. train to the city, and then she’d pick him up every night at 6:18 p.m. The only time he broke that routine was when my sister, Alice, attended Elm Place School, and he walked her to middle school every morning before heading to the train station to catch the 8:08. “Alice’s music teacher, Mr. Reed,” he adds, “even gave Alice extra credit when he noticed that Alice walked with her dad to school every day.” Don Lubin served as the personal attorney for several business heavyweights, including McDonald’s Founder Ray Kroc.

Lubin was elected to the McDonald’s Corporation Board of Directors in 1967 (and was its longest serving director), had a founding role in Ronald McDonald House Charities, and guided that nonprofit as a trustee for nearly 40 years. He also counseled boards of directors and senior management of private and public companies, including Allstate, Molex, Sealy, Sears, Serta, and WW Grainger. Among the innumerable posts he held during a law career that spanned over six decades: Director, Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum of American History; Life Trustee and former Board Chair, Ravinia Festival; Life Trustee, Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Life Trustee and former Board Chair, Highland Park Hospital; and Life Trustee and former Vice Chair, Rush University Medical Center, where Lubin helped plan a new wing designed for pandemics. And Lubin was an integral leader behind the establishment of Legacy Charter School (pre-K through eighth grade), located in the Chicago neighborhood North Lawndale. Sonnenschein/Dentons founded the school to mark the occasion of the firm’s centennial anniversary. “I never looked at Don through a single

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lens,” says Dentons Global Corporate Practice Chair Mike Froy, in his 39th year with the firm. “Don was a lawyer who made a difference—he brought something special to every matter he handled. He not only dedicated himself to his clients, his firm, and his colleagues, but to countless charitable and civic causes as well. Still, nothing meant more to Don than his family. “Words that come to mind, when I think of Don, are integrity judgment, loyalty, commitment, trust, humility, fairness, and selflessness. While he had a commanding presence, those who knew him well appreciated his wit and sense of humor.” Only one Dentons employee was surprised when the firm created the annual Lubin Award in 2017, two years before Lubin retired. The startled employee? Lubin himself. The award honors a colleague who embodies Lubin’s high standards, selflessness, and passionate dedication to the practice of law. “Don,” Harris says, “wasn’t just a brilliant lawyer. One of his many other strengths was his soft spot for people—making people feel good and that they mattered. What I remember most about the first day I met Don was his warmth; he was non-threatening. Our firm has been known for its inclusiveness for decades because Don advocated for women in the field of law. “He introduced women lawyers to clients in much the same way he dealt with male lawyers,” Harris continues. “He’d give great thought to people he believed would have common interests and ‘chemistry.’ His success in matching firm lawyers with clients was evident by the decades-long relationships that resulted from his introductions.” The survivors of deceased clients, colleagues, friends, CEOs, mentees, and others who had been blessed to have known Lubin were treated to eulogies delivered by Lubin. The number of tributes—15, maybe more—Don Lubin was asked to prepare still amazes Tom Lubin. “He probably gave more eulogies than some priests and rabbis,” Tom says. “It speaks to how revered he was to so many. A couple of years ago, I asked Dad if he could help me write his own eulogy. It was the only time he refused a request to celebrate someone’s life. “‘Surprise me,’ was all he said. Don Lubin’s survivors, in addition to his wife and four children, include eight grandchildren. THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

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Juneberry, Sugarplum, Shadblow, Saskatoon … there are many names around the

U.S. and Canada for what we know in Illinois as the Serviceberry tree. We planted ours to beautify the landscape 24 years ago and were delighted to learn that the pretty red

berries are edible, with a flavor profile similar to blueberries (but more redberry-ish) and even higher in protein, dietary fiber, calcium, magnesium, and manganese. No wonder

Native Americans used them to make pemmican! This year, I used the berries in combination with raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries to make this fabulous summer berry pie. You can alter the berry-to-berry ratio, just be sure to use fewer blueberries than the other

types of berry and you will still need about 7 cups of fruit which should mound up nicely in your 9-inch, deep-dish pie plate.

METHOD MAKE PIE CRUST: Place flour, salt, and sugar into a sifter; sift into a large, wide

bowl. Cut butter into small pieces over flour. Cut butter into the flour using two knives, your fingertips, or a pastry cutter until mixture resembles wet sand with some pea-sized bits of butter still in it. Stir milk (or cream) into the flour mixture one Tbsp at a time, using a fork to stir lightly until the dough clumps. Spread clean work surface with two pieces of overlapping plastic wrap to make a square. Scoop dough onto the plastic wrap. Pulling the plastic wrap up and around the dough, gently squeeze, and gather the dough into a ball. Divide ball in half. Flatten each ball into a disk and wrap each disk in plastic wrap. Refrigerate dough for 1/2 hour. MAKE PIE FILLING: Mix sugar and

tapioca starch. Toss berries in sugar/tapioca mixture. Set aside. ASSEMBLE PIE: Remove one

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of the dough disks and roll out. Ease dough into a nine-inch, deep-dish pie plate, leaving a little dough overhang. Fill dough with berry mixture, mounding at the center. Sprinkle with lemon zest. Squeeze 1/2 lemon over the sugared berries. Dot with the 2 Tbsp of butter cut into tiny pieces. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Roll out second disk of dough. Using a pie-wheel or sharp knife, cut rolled-out dough circle into long strips about 1/2-inch wide. Loosely drape 1/2 of the strips across top of pie, top to bottom. Going the other direction, weave remaining 1/2 of the strips over and under the placed strips to make a lattice top. Trim excess dough around pie plate. Roll and crimp edges of pie to make a decorative edge.

DOUBLE-CRUST PIECRUST

• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour • 1/2 tsp salt • 2 tsp sugar • 2 sticks (1 cup) very cold unsalted butter • 5 Tbsp ice-cold milk or cream (OR evaporated milk) SERVICEBERRY FILLING

• 2 cups serviceberries • 2 cups raspberries • 2 cups blackberries • 1 cup blueberries • 1 cup sugar • 5 Tbsp tapioca starch • 1/4 tsp salt • A little fresh-grated nutmeg • Juice and finely grated zest from ½ a fresh lemon • 2 Tbsp butter

BAKE PIE: Bake pie in lower 1/3 of oven at 400 degrees for 10 minutes. Reduce

oven temperature to 350 degrees; move pie to middle of oven and bake for an additional hour—to hour and 15 minutes until the filling is bubbling thickly up through the lattice. NOTE: Protect the edge of your pie crust with a thin strip of foil or a pie-rim protector if it seems to be browning too quickly. Remove pie from oven and let it rest for a bit on a rack. Slice and serve.

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‘FEELS LIKE HOME’ THE WILMETTE PARK DISTRICT GAVE RABBI MOSHE TELDON—A NEW YORK NATIVE AND THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR AT THE FRAIDA-CAMERON CHABAD CENTER OF WILMETTE—YET ANOTHER REASON TO APPRECIATE WILMETTE. BY BILL MCLEAN ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY BLITT

He stood outside his New York office on Sundays, greeting people for up to six hours in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The late Rabbi Menachem Mendel S c hneerson—a R ussian-Empire-bor n American Orthodox rabbi and the leader of the international Chabad-Lubavitch movement, beginning in 1950—met thousands of folks each weekend. And handed a dollar bill to each, with a gentle suggestion: “Donate this to a charity.” “He still inspires me today,” Wilmette resident and Rabbi Moshe Teldon says of Schneerson, who died in 1994 at the age of 92. “He was a spiritual leader, a powerhouse, who lived about an hour from where I grew up (Long Island). You’ve heard of the negativity bias, right? Well, Rabbi Schneerson lived with a positivity bias. “The idea behind the dollar giveaway,” the 35-year-old adds, “was, ‘When two people meet, it should bring benefit to a third.’” Teldon, the program director at FraidaCameron Chabad Center of Wilmette, was thrilled about a first on the Third of July this year. That was when the Wilmette Park District offered a kosher food option to Independence Day Celebration attendees (on the day before July 4 this summer) at Gillson Park for the first time. “Our push to make this happen started about four years ago,” says Teldon, the father of five daughters with wife and Wilmette native Esther Leah, whose parents, Rabbi Dovid and Rivke Flinkenstein, co-founded the Fraida-Cameron Chabad Center in their basement in 1992. “We’d pack our food every Fourth of July and head to the village’s celebration to enjoy the fireworks and face-painting and other offerings. “We were making progress, while communicating and working with the Wilmette Park District, right before the start of the pandemic. It was meaningful, significant, what the park district did when it allowed us to find a local vendor for the holiday gathering. It wasn’t just a gesture; it was a big deal for Jewish folks.” Teldon initially contacted Wilmette Park District Executive Director Steve Wilson, who then tapped park district general manager Jason Stanislaw to work with Teldon. In late April, Teldon was informed by the park district that one of the event’s six vendors would get to offer kosher fare, including

falafel and smoked turkey legs, on July 3. “It’s a convenience issue, and we could not be more appreciative of the Wilmette Park District and the Village of Wilmette for their decision,” Teldon says. “I tip my hat to Steve and Jason. It’s a great testament to the village’s commitment to making all residents feel welcome and seen. There are lovely people in Wilmette, and it’s a lovely place to live. It’s an

inclusive village, filled with kind people.” Fraida-Cameron Chabad of Wilmette is a place where every Jewish person is welcome,

It’s a great testament to the village’s commitment to making all residents feel welcome and seen. There are lovely people in Wilmette, and it’s a lovely place to live. It’s an inclusive village, filled with kind people.

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regardless of affiliation or level of knowledge, per its website (chabadwilmette. com). Its goal is to create a warm environment to explore and experience “our heritage” in a nonjudgmental and inviting atmosphere. The center offers welcoming services, thoughtprovoking classes, and interactive social programming. Its mission is to reach out to others with acts of goodness and kindness. The nonprofit’s efforts are rooted in traditional Jewish values, with many of its programs assisting the needy regardless of background or belief. Teldon’s future wife started teaching Hebrew School classes—at the age of 12. Esther Leah Teldon, who earned her teacher certification from the Machon Shoshana Seminary in Jerusalem and taught preschool in Brooklyn, will guide Chabad Wilmette’s Jewish-infused Montessori School, which

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begins its inaugural school year in September. “Chabad is one of the most dynamic Jewish movements,” says Teldon, who attained Rabbinical ordination at the Central Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim in Brooklyn, New York, and has served as a volunteer of Jewish community work in Ireland, Poland, and Nepal and spent summers working in Jewish camps in the United States and Israel. “Centers like ours (35 in Illinois, nearly 5,000 worldwide) seek to create community, to be there for others, to be present. “There’s a Yiddish word, heimish, that means ‘feels like home,’” he continues. “That’s the vibe we strive to have here at all times. No judgment, help people grow, and do what we can to make the world a better place.” Trained in the cantorial arts and a chazzan who leads congregations in songful prayer, Teldon is a son of a New York rabbi (Tuvia) and a musician (Chaya, who sings and plays three instruments). Two of his siblings are rabbis as well, and his sister, a children’s book author, married a rabbi. His grandfather Gerry, a World War II Air Force pilot, lives in Mexico and turns 98 this month. “Grandpa Gerry,” Teldon says, “is the one you should be writing about, not me.” In January 2012, Moshe and Esther Leah got married in an outdoor wedding (“It was, shockingly, 60 degrees that winter day after I’d been bracing for considerably colder temperatures,” Moshe recalls) and joined the Fraida-Cameron Chabad Center of Wilmette team in 2013, with a focus on youth and programming. They had met in New York through mutual friends. “And I followed her to Chicago,” Moshe says. Their daughters are Chana, 9, Shaina, 8, Menucha, 6, Moussia, 5, and Bracha, 2. The youngest once entered the sanctuary while her father was leading a service. “Fatherhood? I love everything about it,” says Teldon, who also loves to read (history and business books, mostly) and listen to music. “Taking care of five daughters, that’s pretty much a full-time job for both of us. But they’re all still bundles of joy, and it’s exciting for both of us to instill a vision and values and help them navigate life. “My favorite part of the day is coming home and being tackled by all five of them.” Can you hear the thud? Can you hear the giggles? Rabbi Moshe Teldon hits pay dirt at home, often—the priceless kind. The Fraida-Cameron Chabad Center, 847251-7707, is located at 2904 Old Glenview Road, Wilmette. For more information visit chabadwilmette.com. THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

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