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[ NEWS ] 12 living nativity keeps it real Trinity United Methodist pageant features goats, sheep – even a camel.

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wilmette jewelers to close After six decades, iconic retailer reaches its end.

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22 social scene Aon Grand Ballroom at Navy Pier was the setting for Make.Believe, the annual fundraising gala for the Chicago Children’s Museum. [ REAL ESTATE ] 30 houses of the week We profile intriguing houses for sale on the North Shore.

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TAKE A CRAFT BEER TOUR ON THE NORTH SHORE new. as primarily a taproom where Soon after, Smylie Brothers “The over-arching theme customers have the opportu- Brewing Co. opened a large he past six years have that is driving craft beer nity to taste and buy its beer. brewpub in downtown Evanbeen a boom time for around the country is the in- “For so many breweries right ston in December 2014.

And 2017 has turned out craft beer on the North novation you can find in tap- now if you don’t have a Shore. In that time at least rooms. These are the proving taproom, it is tough to get to be a banner year for new eight microbreweries and grounds for new beers. Beer your beers on the shelf,” breweries up and down the North Shore. brew pubs have opened in enthusiasts are traveling to Welch said. taprooms more than ever to Evanston is becoming a bit There’s the aforementioned communities f rom Evanston to Lake Bluff, and Ravinia find a sense of community of a hot bed for craf t Macushla, which opened in Brewing Company is slated supplying local, fresh, unique brewing. Temperance Beer September. Kings & Conto open later this year in beer,” said Brian Schafer, Co., which claims to be Evan- victs Brewing Co. opened a Highland Park. There’s even founder and co-owner of Ten ston’s first and oldest craft taproom in Highwood in May locally brewed hard cider now, Ninety Brewery in Glenview.

Ten Ninety was started in with the opening of North Shore Cider Company in 2013, eventually selling six packs of bottles at stores such Evanston.

Lake Bluff Brewing Co. is as Heinen’s, Trader Joe’s, the forerunner, opening in Whole Foods, Binny’s Bever2011 after co-owner Michael age Depot and Mariano’s, Dorneker was advised to open according to Schafer. In 2016, a brewery someplace he loved. Ten Ninety opened a 91-seat “I think that was the best taproom adjacent to its advice anyone has given me, brewery in Glenview, where because I love the North customers can choose f rom 20 draft beers. Schafer said Shore,” Dorneker said.

Since opening, the brewery they are putting in a kitchen, has undergone a complete which they plan to open renovation and expansion, sometime in 2018.

Many believe the rising creating more seating in the popularity of microbreweries taproom. It also recently won a bronze medal award for its on the North Shore and Kosmonaut beer — a Russian across the countr y is in Imperial Stout-style beer aged tandem with the buy-local in whisky barrels — at the movement. “I think breweries 2016 Festival of Barrel Aged exemplify the local movement better than a lot of industries.

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“That beer in general has Craft breweries gained tracbeen a very special beer for tion in parallel to a growing us,” said Dorneker, who also desire for local products,” said serves as the brew master. Mike Welch, owner of MacThat same beer won a gold ushla Brewing Company.

Artist Mark McMahon painted a map of the North Shore Welch opened Macushla medal in the 2013 U.S. Beer highlighting the brew pubs and microbreweries that have opened with his wife, Megan, next to Open. in recent years. PAINTING BY MARK MCMAHON All of the beer served at Hackney’s On Lake in GlenLake Bluff Brewing Co. is view. The craft brewery is made on site, with new recipes inside what was once the brewery and taproom, opened 2017, a town the brewery proon offer monthly, with the Hackney’s laundry facility — in 2013. Enthusiasts can taste motes as the “toughest town exception of four flagship a small outbuilding next door its beer served in flights, half- in America,” quoting f rom to the restaurant where all of pints or pints at the brewery’s Teddy Roosevelt. Opened by brews always on tap.

“We try to have two new its linens were once washed. warehouse taproom, or they an Englishman and an Ausbeers every month,” Dornek- Welch is the grandson of may opt to take some to go in tralian, Kings & Convicts Hackney’s founders, and he a growler (64-ounce) or brews ales and pilsners utilizer said. ing hops and malts from the The craft brewery move- spent much of his childhood howler (32-ounce). working at the business.

S k e t c h b o o k U.S., Australia, New Zealand ment is a national trend that Macushla features a 48-seat Brewing, founded in 2014, and England. “ We put so has landed locally in a big way.

In 2016 there were more than beer garden with communal opened a coz y, 25-seat much more natural product 5,200 craft breweries in the tables, as well as a 34-seat taproom in Evanston in 2016, into our beer. We use more United States; that number taproom inside where -- in where customers can taste hops and different grains,” has more than doubled since addition to an assortment of some of the 14 beers on tap said Brendan Watters, co2012, according t o beer -- food is served f rom or choose f rom six beers to owner of Kings & Convicts.

While not quite craft beer, the Hackney kitchen. They go in bottles. the Brewers Association. plan to sell four staple beers Peckish Pig, opened in North Shore Cider Company By definition each craft beer is unique, and taprooms on tap year-round, while of- March 2014, claims to be opened its doors in early 2017 are the perfect spot for en- fering a rotation of eight Evanston’s first brewpub — in Evanston, using Michigan brew pubs brew their own apples and pears to make hard thusiasts to try something seasonal brews.

Welch described Macushla beer onsite but also serve food. cider. The company has a

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taproom where customers can taste the cider, as well as purchase growlers and bottles to take home.

Ravinia Brewing Company is slated to open a brew pub in March or April of 2018 on the site that previously housed Ravinia BBQ & Grill at 594 Roger Williams Avenue, in Highland Park, serving craft beer brewed on site as well as a full restaurant menu.

Stuart Conlon, who works at the Wilmette Wine Cellar, has already stocked its fridge with one of Ravinia Brewing’s beers. “I go to taprooms and pick up beers we don’t carry to see what is new and good and what will work for our customers,” Conlon said. The store has a cooler dedicated to local craft beer, which North Shore residents tend to favor. “ With American craft beer there are no rules.

You can make whatever you want. People really like the variety,” Conlon noted.

While there has been some talk of market saturation, owners of North Shore breweries remain optimistic. “We are under penetrated in Illinois still,” Watters said.

“There are a lot of young people that want something that is authentic and done locally,” he said. Watters sees craft beer as a movement that is changing the way people drink beer. “Craft beer is more than product. People want the experience. It not just about drinking a beer, it ’s about telling a story,” he explained.

Roy Hernandez, owner of The Art of Beer, a retailer in Highwood that features a taproom focusing on local, craft beer, believes there is still room to grow. “Every neighborhood will have a brewery. It’s more of a renaissance. We are recovering from the damage of Prohibition,” Hernandez said.

Indeed, well before Prohibition the United States topped at over 4,000 breweries in 1873, but later hit a low point of fewer than 90 in 1978, according to the Brewers Association. Since then the numbers have been steadily rising across the nation.

Dorneker attributes people’s quenchless thirst for craft beer to the tastiness of the product. “I think people’s pallets have evolved,” he explained. “There are more and more people who try it, and it is a no brainer once they’ve tried a quality product,” Dorneker said.

Take a North Shore craft brew crawl:

Lake Bluff Brewing Co., 16 East Scranton Avenue, Lake Bluff www.lbbrew.com Kings & Convicts, 523 Bank Lane, Highwood www.kingsandconvicts.com

T he Ar t of Beer, 552 Sheridan Road, Highwood www.facebook.com/highwoodbeer/

Ravinia Brewing Company, 594 Roger Williams Avenue, Highland Park - scheduled to open spring 2018 www.raviniabrewing.com Ten Ninety Brewing Co., 1025 North Waukegan Road, Glenview www.ten-ninety.com Macushla Brewing Company, 1516 East Lake Avenue, Glenview www.macushlabeer.com

Temperance Beer Co., 2000 Dempster Avenue, Evanston www.temperancebeer.com

Sketchbook Brewing Co., 821 Chicago Avenue, Evanston. www.sketchbookbrewing.com Nor th Shore Cider Company, 707 Howard Street, Unit B, Evanston. www.northshorecider.com

Smylie Brothers Brewing Co., 1615 Oak Avenue, Evanston www.smyliebros.com Peckish Pig, 623 Howard Street, Evanston www.thepeckishpig.com

Half Day Brewing Company, 200 Village Green, Lincolnshire www.halfdaybrewing.com

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Keeping it real: Trinity’s nativity includes goats, sheep, camel

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t ’s not ever yday that you get to see an actual camel in a church in Wilmette, but parishioners and community members flocked to Trinity United Methodist Church to see live animals, celebrate Advent and enjoy the church’s sixth annual “Meet Us at the Manger Live Nativity ” on December 10.

The live nativity is Trinity ’s unique take on a traditional Christmas pageant.

“It ’s a way to involve the congregation and welcome people f rom all over,” said Catherine Inserra, Trinity ’s director of Christian formation and student ministr y.

People gathered outside of the church to pet the live donkey, sheep, goats and camel that were resting in a fenced-in area on the f ront l a w n . T h e c h u rc h s t a f f rented the animals for the event f rom a farm in W isconsin. They have been a big hit since the tradition began in 2012.

Congregation members of all ages make up the ens e m b l e . T h i s ye a r c a s t members ranged in age f rom n i n e m o n t h s — H e n r y Camels, sheep and other Cheng as the baby Jesus — animals perform with t o 1 0 0 - y e a r - o l d R u t h parishioners of all ages at H a n n a , w h o h a s p l aye d Trinity United Methodist Angel Gabr iel since the Church’s annual Live Nativity. church’s nativity began.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY EMILY “ I t ’s ve r y i n t e r ge n e r a - SPECTRE tional, which is a reflection of Trinity,” Inserra said. tive dur ing the pageant, Trinity started hosting a sitting happily on the laps live nativity when a group of his parents dressed as of par ishioners c ame up Mar y and Joseph, while with the idea af ter doing angels sang and third grader some research and looking Ben Diep narrated the story at other churches that hold f rom a podium. All of the similar events. The Church animals were lead through of Holy Comforter in Ke- the church by shepherds nilworth has held a similar who prodded them along event and lends some of the with food. costumes to Trinity.

Ever yone watching the After the community had event seemed to enjoy the a chance to visit with the festivities, laughing as the animals, ever yone headed Wise Men carefully stepped inside the church to watch around droppings the sheep a narrated pageant of Jesus’s had left behind. birth and sing classic “It ’s really a lovely event.

Christmas carols such as O You have people of all ages Little Town of Bethlehem and singing common beloved Silent Night.

Christmas carols,” Inserra “Baby Jesus” was coopera- said.

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End of an era: Wilmette Jewelers to close

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fter more than 60 years in business, Wilmette Jewelers will close its doors for good by late January, when owner Gayle Inbinder retires from the business started by her father, Lester Inbinder.

“It is all bittersweet. Change is uncomfortable but you have to go on and live life,” Inbinder said.

Located at 1149 Wilmette Avenue, Wilmette Jewelers has been a staple of the downtown community and a destination for North Shore residents seeking to mark milestone events in their lives, such as weddings, graduations and first communions. Inbinder has been celebrating significant occasions with customers for so many years now it has crossed generations.

“I go to fourth-generation weddings. My friends and customers are the same because we are all like family,” Inbinder said.

Family and friendship seems to be at the heart of the store that Inbinder joined in 1978. Her

Wilmette Jewelers owner Gayle Inbinder, second from left, with longtime employees Ruth Berkowitz, Howard Jesilow, Peggy Keane and Sharon Gutan. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

father was a diamond salesman original shop was located at 1166 when he decided to purchase Pa- Wilmette Avenue, just across the gliarulo Jewelers and change the street from Wilmette Jeweler’s name to Wilmette Jewelers. The current location, and was opened

by the Pagliarulo family in the late 1800s.

Inbinder moved the store to its current location at her father’s

urging 11 years ago. He noted it With Inbinder’s retirement, wasn’t everyday a storefront Chicago will also lose a senior opened on “their street,” her fa- member of the American Society ther’s name for Wilmette Avenue. of Appraisers — Inbinder is one With only two families owning of only two members in all of the business for well over 100 years, Chicagoland for gems and jewelry.

Inbinder hopes to find a buyer but While Inbinder’s retirement said that the future is still fluid. will be a loss for the jewelry in“I feel badly. I would like to find dustry and the North Shore comjust the right buyer here,” she said. munity, she is looking forward to But she isn’t willing to settle for some free time. She plans to take just anybody. “I am picky about a trip to Egypt — something on who would come in here. I earned her bucket list — as well as spend the special trust that people give time on the golf course and bike trails. us.”

Customers have returned to But for now Inbinder is still Wilmette Jewelers over the years busy running the store as she not only because it offers unique liquidates its inventory. There are items and services — such as ear many good deals to be had with piercing by a registered nurse and large discounts just in time for the licensed collegiate products from holidays, such as half off of Wanearby Northwestern University terford and Orrefors crystal.

— but also because of the warmth “Lots and lots of great buys and Inbinder and her staff extend to they all have to get adopted every customer who enters the between now and the end of store. Even Inbinder’s former January,” Inbinder said. employees return to the store just to visit, and since announcing her Wilmette Jewelers is located at retirement. she has received cards 1149 Wilmette Avenue, Wilmette. from many people who have For more information, visit www. worked there over the years wilmettejewelers.com.

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Book lover Brent builds readers for life just short of a book in her hand.

She started working with her eceiving a book as a gift is father at the bookstore in high a “slow burn,” according school at age 13, heading into to Amy Brent of Win- Chicago from Highland Park netka, owner of the Stuart Brent every Saturday. Brent continued Children’s Book Club. It’s the to work at the store in college, as gift that doesn’t deliver until well as after graduation.

“I learned everything from my much later, when the reader father,” she said. engages in a personal experience When her father closed the with the author.

“Everything happens in your bookstore, Brent had just head. That is why it is an in- adopted her first child and was tensely satisfying experience,” busy. But she couldn’t entirely let go. said Brent.

“I couldn’t completely stop But this delayed gratification doesn’t stop Brent from giving being a bookseller because that books or encouraging others to was just a part of me. I started do the same. Brent’s book club (the book club) in my basement,” — a subscription service that she said.

While her parents had sends a child a hand-selected, dabbled in the book club busigiftwrapped book each month — is the gift that keeps on giving. ness, Brent threw all her energy Brent’s love affair with books into expanding the club. “I was destiny. As a child of famed started it and the more I did it, Chicago book purveyor Stuart I found what my customers Brent, who owned and operated wanted and needed,” she said.

First and foremost, Brent Stuart Brent Books until its closure in 1996, Brent was born takes seriously choosing just the right book for her customers.

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After growing up in the book-selling business as the daughter of famed Chicago bookstore owner Stuart Brent, Amy Brent decided to create the Stuart Brent Children’s Book Club.

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She gathers information about cards, to select books perfectly the child’s reading habits, skills suited for each individual child. and interests from the “donor” You’ll never find trendy books (her name for the adult sub- or series, such as Harry scriber), as well as feedback she Potter or The Boxcar series, as receives online and from post- those are books anyone can find.

Instead, Brent relies on her own vast knowledge and impeccable taste to deliver books kids will love to read, even the most reluctant of readers.

“It is irrelevant if the book is new. It is essential to me that the book is good,” Brent said.

And as an avid reader herself, she enjoys the challenge of finding a new book for a child who loves to read. “When a parent says they want their child to read a book that will enchant them, I can do that all day long,” Brent said.

And Brent also includes fun add-ins to maintain a child’s interest, such as the pirate bottles with a message inside, or a magnifying glass paired with a book about insects.

Brent is less concerned with selecting books that are challenging. She wants to find books that children enjoy so much they can’t put them down.

“The book club is not school.

What we are trying to build here is a reader. That you view books

as a wonderful part of life,” she said.

Brent frequently gets pressure from parents for their children to read harder books and become better readers. But she believes the end goal is to establish a lifelong relationship with books.

“If you expand what the goal is and think to yourself, I am building a lifelong reader, that’s the greater goal to me,” Brent said.

Looking for the perfect book for the holidays? Here are Brent’s top five selections: • Christmas Day in the Morning,

by Pearl Buck • Hanukkah Bear, by Eric Kimmel • Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins, by Eric Kimmel • The War That Saved My Life,

by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley • The Seventh Most Important Thing, by Shelley Pearsall For more information about the Stuart Brent Children’s Book Club, visit www.stuartbrent.com.

James Levine avoids criminal charges

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ames Levine, the former music director of Ravinia Festival accused of sexual abuse of a Kenilworth teenager in 1986, will not face criminal charges in Lake County because of the law at the time, according to a news release from State’s Attorney Michael G. Nerheim.

Ashok Pai, a Kenilworth native who now lives in New York City, said he had severalsexual encounters with Levine between 1986 and 1993, starting when he was 16, in a Lake Forest hotel room, according to a December 3 New York Times story.

When the alleged events took place in 1986, the age of consent for sexual activity in Illinois was 16, according to Nerheim’s news release. There were no allegations of force by Levine, leading Nerheim’s office to conclude criminal charges were not warranted.

“At the time the allegations occurred the conduct was not illegal,” said Cynthia Vargas,

James Levine

communications manager for the State’s Attorney’s Office.

“There was no crime.”

What started with an accusation by Pai first made public December 2 in the New York Post led both Ravinia and the Metropolitan Opera of New York, where Levine was music director from 1976 to 2006, to sever all ties with him. Three more men made abuse allegations in the next two days, ac-

cording to the New York Times.

Levine remained silent until December 7 when he denied the allegations of all four accusers, according to the Times.

“As understandably troubling as the accusations noted in recent press accounts are, they are unfounded,” Levine said in a written statement published in the Times. “As anyone who truly knows me will attest, I have not lived my life as an oppressor

or an aggressor.”

Pai first reported his allegations to the Lake Forest Police in October 2016. The police conducted an investigation, speaking to witnesses close to both Pai and Levine, according to the release. Vargas said Nerheim and his staff began their review a week ago.

“At the conclusion of the investigation, considering the specific conduct disclosed by the complainant, the age of the complainant at the time, all of the evidence in the case and the applicable law and the relevant age of consent in Illinois at the time of the alleged incidents, it is our decision that no criminal charges can be brought,” stated the release.

Since the time of the alleged incidents, Illinois raised the age of consent to 17. The age is 18 “where the suspect is in a position of trust, authority or supervision in relation to the victim,” according to the release. There were no such provisions at the time the alleged events occurred.

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he first thing you notice when entering Valor, a French-American bistro in downtown Glencoe, is the warm ambiance created by a large rustic fireplace complete with an assortment of candles.

Opened nearly a year ago at 667 Vernon Avenue, where Cibo Trattoria was formerly located, the restaurant was completely rehabbed and now includes warm beige walls, dark hardwood floors and ample seating, including a large community table that separates the bar f rom the dining room.

Valor is a perfect date night spot, pre-theater meal if catching a show at nearby Writers Theatre, and it’s a great place to go with the family.

In short, the restaurant aims to provide something for ever yone, said Chef Stefan Markov. Chef Markov may know something about what North Shore residents want to eat. Classically trained at La Cite Collegiale in Canada, he worked as a sous chef at Abigail’s American Bistro in Highland Park, and at Restaurant Michael and George Trois in Winnetka, before taking the helm at Valor.

Above: Steak frites at Valor in Glencoe. PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF VALOR Left: Chef Stefan Markov of Valor PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

While the restaurant is only open for dinner at this time of year (it’s open for lunch during the summer), Chef Markov and his team get to work first thing in the morning. “It’s a scratch kitchen. We do everything here but the bread, which we get f rom Hewn (in Evanston),” Chef Markov said.

The menu changes seasonally and many of the ingredients are sourced f rom local farms, such as Frillman Farms in Prairie View, Illinois.

“We try to use the best products available and you can definitely taste the difference,” Chef Markov said.

Currently, honey cumin winter carrots are a customer favorite, as well as the warm Brussels sprout Caesar salad.

“The winter carrots are really special. They are very sweet,” Chef Markov said.

While many restaurants are

sourcing local ingredients, Valor’s menu is also all organic or GMO and antibiotic free.

“If I wouldn’t eat it I wouldn’t serve it. I try to eat organic and antibiotic free so that is what I serve here,” Chef Markov explained.

The Diver sea scallops served with butternut squash puree, potato gnocchi and wild mushroom ragu is a customer favorite, as is the wild sea bass.

The menu also includes plenty of other options, including roasted chicken, steak, pasta dishes, and weekly specials.

But diners should also make sure to leave room for dessert.

Chef Markov is a trained pastry chef who enjoys taking a traditional dessert and adding s ome t h i n g u n i qu e. For example, his deconstructed pumpkin pie is always a little bit unexpected, but provides the same flavor profile as a

traditional pie. “I really enjoy making simple deserts with a twist,” he said.

The restaurant has also just launched a new Sunday Supper series, which includes a four course prix fixe menu served family style. The meal includes an appetizer, salad, entree and choice of two desserts for $68 for a family of four. Guests can add a bottle of private label wine for $16, or an additional family member for $15 for an adult, or $10 or a child.

The menu focuses on family classics with a twist, such as the gluten-free fish fry using wild Atlantic cod and served with jicama coleslaw.

Valor is located at 667 Vernon Avenue and is open Sunday through Saturday for dinner. For reservations or more information visit www.valorglencoe. com.

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Polohouse, anyone?

Unique Lake Forest home blends historic preservation with modern amenities

BY LIBBY ELLIOTT DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM

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n August 1933, during the height of the North Shore polo craze, an estimated 15,000 spectators gathered at Lake Forest’s Onwentsia Club to watch a team of top polo competitors from the East Coast take on the best players from the Midwest. Onwentsia’s famous East-West Tournament – a series of hard, intense games that ended with the West winning two out of three matches – solidified Lake Forest’s reputation as one of the country’s top destinations for world-class polo.

Six years later, Lake Forest’s Carney family built a 20-acre farm to house their ponies, host informal polo matches, and entertain well-heeled friends. With its handsome Ralph Millman-designed barn and stables, Evergrove Farm became a local haunt for polo enthusiasts and socialites, including Henry Ford Jr. and members of the Kennedy family.

The Carneys would regularly host

lively dinner parties on fine linen, china and crystal in the hallways of Evergrove’s stables. Rumor has it the farm’s longtime caretakers, Pinky and Hilda Lavender, had a special guest room upstairs for revelers who were too tipsy to make it home.

By the time the Carney family sold the property to developers four decades later, the North Shore’s enthusiasm for polo had given way to golf, but the glamour and sophistication of this bygone era lives on inside Polohouse at 1125 Polo Drive, the farm’s original clubhouse and stables that were transformed into a sweeping single family residence in 1974.

Lovingly maintained for the past 14 years by its current owners, interior decorator Alison Sherman and her husband Harry, the 6-bedroom, 3.5-bath home set on nearly 1.5 acres pays homage to the past alongside modern design features and amenities. Sherman, who grew up in Pennsylvania horse country, knew instinctively how to honor the home’s rich

A unique property comes on the market in Lake Forest: Polohouse was transformed into a single-family residence from what was once Evergrove Farm’s original clubhouse and stables.

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history. Over the course of a Traditional Home.

“I come from two generations decade, the professional decorator has filled Polohouse with eques- of antiques collectors,” said trian-inspired furnishings, col- Sherman. “I love things with lectibles and textiles. The unique history.” grounds and interiors of PoloBoasting an expansive outdoor house have been featured in the patio, three family rooms and a pages of Midwest Living and formal living/dining room with

exposed barn beams and 25-foot bedrooms and three bathrooms. ceilings, Polohouse provides The home’s master suite, once a ample room for both casual and hayloft, features a full bathroom, formal entertaining. Evergrove’s two walk-in closets and original original “warming room” - once a hardwood floors. lounge for polo players – has been At night, the home’s original preserved as a cozy family room cupola is illuminated, with with wet bar. ambient light pouring into the “This is where the men would upstairs hallway through original, gather to talk politics, discuss the small-paned windows installed in events of the day, and smoke the ceiling. cigars,” said Sherman.

Today, the 6,300-square-foot Alongside a fully modernized home is on the market for cook’s kitchen, renovated bath- $1,650,00, and listing agent rooms, and 5-car garage, sits the Maureen O’Grady-Tuohy of polo barn’s original cedar-lined Berkshire Hathaway HomeSertack room, which now functions vices KoenigRubloff Realty as a quiet reading area.

Group said that in her nearly 30 “Cedar panels were installed in years in the business, she’s never stables because they’re both beau- encountered a home with Polotiful and aromatic,” said Sherman. house’s unique history and design.

“They give off a wonderful scent “I’ve been showing houses since when you step inside the house.” 1989,” said O’Grady-Tuohy. “’I Outside the tack room, the have to say, this is my favorite farm’s original trophy case remains house, and I’ve seen them all.” in tact, still full of old Carney photos and polo memorabilia.

To learn more about 1125 Polo Upstairs, the club’s old caretak- Drive, Lake Forest, contact Maureen ers quarters have been redesigned O’Grady-Tuohy at mogrady@Koeas six generously proportioned nigRubloff.com or 847-845-6444.

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amatoulaye Keita’s path to a basketball court began on a soccer pitch in her native Mali, a republic in West Africa.

Keita — now a junior and aggressive power forward in her third varsity basketball season at Lake Forest Academy — was 13 years old and dribbling a soccer ball in a match when a

Her length, more than anything else, disrupts a lot of teams.”

— Lake Forest Academy girls basketball coach Erica Wood, on junior power forward Ramatoulaye Keita, who averages 19 points, 12 rebounds and four rebounds spectator shouted an observation and advice.

“He yelled to me, ‘You have long arms; you should play basketball,’ ” the 5-foot-11 Keita recalls.

It didn’t take her long to try dribbling another kind of ball.

“I went to an outdoor basketball court the next day,” says Keita, who speaks three languages (her native language, Bambara, French and English).

“I remember thinking, right away, ‘This is fun.’ ” Her second thought: “I need to practice more.”

It didn’t take her long to impress officials and coaches with Mali’s junior national basketball team. Keita earned a spot on the squad about a year later but a shoulder injury kept her from competing with the

Her next trip to LFA lasted much longer than her first one.

Keita had arrived to start her life as a full-time student with a zeal to resume her basketball career.

“She was a raw player in her freshman season,” says Caxys head coach Erica Wood, an assistant coach in that 2015-16 season. “But she played really hard as a role player, and now she has one speed, one gear, when she plays — fast. We also love her attitude, her energy, her positivity. For someone who goes hard to the rim like Rama does, she does a good job of staying under control while using a fairly soft touch.

“Her length, more than anything else,” the coach adds, “disrupts a lot of teams.”

Keita — her other nickname is ‘Toulaye”, the one she prefers — averaged 19 points, 12 rebounds and an impressive four blocks in LFA’s first eight games this winter. She scored 14 points (10 in the first half ) in a 50-28 defeat of visiting Willows Academy on Dec. 8 and poured in 21 more in a 61-50 loss to host Latin School of Chicago the next day.

The setback left the Caxys with a 5-4 record.

“All I did in Mali was play in the paint,” says Keita, who works out in the academy’s weight room three times a week in the offseason. “I was told, when the ball is in my hands, to go right up and put it in the basket. I didn’t know how to dribble, and I’m still working on that part of my game. I continue to work on my shooting, too. I’ve been working on my shooting with the coach [Kyle Koncz] of our boys varsity team. “ We meet at 6 in the ‘LAYE-ING IT ON THE LINE: Lake Forest Academy’s Ramatoulaye Keita tries to keep the ball in play during tournament action at Vernon Hills earlier this season. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER morning.”

Early in her f reshman squad for a second year.

A man from Canada with into a harrowing experience season, the bottom of Keita’s “I then got together with my ties to LFA entered the picture when she missed her flight to right foot introduced itself to Chicago. Keita sought help at the tip of a pencil. It wasn’t a academy coach [in Mali], and next. Calls were made. he helped me post a YouTube Flights were booked. the airport and received it from cordial encounter.

The pencil had found its way video of me doing basketball In the fall of 2015, Keita flew a couple of people.

One hour later she was on a into one of Keita’s shoes. When drills,” Keita says. “I wanted to from Mali to France and landed play competitive basketball in Atlanta after another flight. flight bound for Chicago to Keita put the shoe on, the pencil pierced her right sole.

Her layover in Atlanta turned check out LFA. somewhere.”

Fairly deeply.

“We knew she was hurt,” Wood recalls, “but we weren’t sure what she had injured. We kept asking her, ‘What hurts?’

Back then, Rama spoke mostly French.”

Keita eventually saw a doctor.

No word if she told to doc, “Get the lead out.”

“I missed only one practice because of the injury,” she says proudly.

Two dreams drive Keita: to play college basketball, to play professional basketball.

When she doesn’t have homework, she spends time watching basketball on TV. Maya Moore of the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx and Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors are her favorite pro hoopsters.

“Maya,” Keita says, “keeps it simple when she plays. If I ever get to meet her, I’d tell her, ‘You … are … amazing.’ And Steph, oh my, such a great, great player.”

The first thing she’d say to Curry if he ever showed up in the vicinity of Keita at LFA? “Marry me!” Keita says with a contagious giggle. “No, seriously, Steph Curry is a great example for fathers everywhere, with the way he acts around his family.”

Notable: Caxys sophomore guard Courtney Harris scored a team-high 20 points, including a trio of treys in the third quarter, in host LFA’s 50-28 defeat of Des Plaines-based Willows Academy on Dec. 8.

LFA led 18-1 after one quarter and 27-9 at the half. Caxys sophomore Audrey McGrail contributed six points. …

Science teacher and secondyear LFA varsity girls basketball coach Erica Wood graduated with a degree in physics (honors) f rom Lake Forest College. Wood also serves as an assistant girls soccer coach at the academy. … LFA’s girls hoops squad doesn’t play its next game until Jan. 11, when it hosts Carmel Catholic High School.

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our Loyola Academy players — Quinn Boyle, Anthony Rodriguez, Marty Geary and Armoni Dixon — head up the 2017 North Shore Weekend Daily All-Area Gridiron Team.

Offensive Player of the Year: Quinn Boyle (Loyola Academy, Sr.) Defensive Player of the Year: Anthony Rodriguez (Loyola Academy, Sr.) Lineman of the Year: Marty Geary (Loyola Academy, Sr.) Special Teams Player of the Year: Michael Vinson (New Trier, Sr.) Utility Player of the Year: Chris Heywood (Glenbrook North, Sr.) Newcomer of the Year: Armoni Dixon (Loyola Academy, Jr.) Rookie of the Year: Rylie Mills (Lake Forest, So.)

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** First Team Offense **

QB: Quinn Boyle (LA, Sr.) RB: Savontae Garner (Glenbrook South, Sr.) RB: Brian Sitzer (NT, Jr.) WR: Ryan Boos (LA, Jr.) WR: Ryan Cekay (Lake Forest, Jr.) WR: Giancarlo Volpentesta (HP, Jr.) OL: Zach Adams (GBS, Sr.) OL: Chamberlain Coffee (NT, Jr.) OL: Jack Finfer (HP, Sr.) OL: Charlie Gross (LA, Sr.) OL: Terry Zapf (NT, Jr.) ** First Team Defense **

DB: Chris Cavalaris (LF, Sr.) DB: Jake Gonzalez (LA, Jr.) DB: Matt Mosher (NT, Sr.) DB: Noah Spitz (HP, Sr.) LB: John Deering (LF, Sr.) LB: Armoni Dixon (LA, Jr.) LB: Tommy Motzko (HP, Jr.) LB: Anthony Rodriguez

(LA, Sr.) DL: Marty Geary (LA, Sr.) DL: Kevin Kaufman (HP, Jr.) DL: Rylie Mills (LF, So.)

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QB: Jack Mislinski (LF, Sr.) RB: Ryan Brincks (HP, Sr.) RB: Jimmy Karfis (GBN, Sr.) WR: James Joyce (LA, Sr.) WR: Anthony Nicholas (NT, Sr.) WR: Davu Keels (GBN, Sr.) OL: Joey Artinian (NT, Sr.) OL: Nick Artinian (NT, Sr.) OL: Andrew Grabemann (LF, Sr.) OL: Ryan Hagedorn (LA, Sr.) OL: Ryan Purdy (GBN, Jr.) ** Second Team Defense **

DB: Luke Baldwin (HP, Sr.) DB: Hugh Kelly (LA, Jr.) DB: Charlie Largay (LA, Sr.) DB: Donovan Perkins (NT, Jr.) LB: Landon Abboud (GBN, Sr.) LB: Skyler Metzger (GBN, Sr.) LB: Conor Nash (GBS, Sr.) LB: Noa Morgenstern (HP, Jr.) DL: Shannon Charleston Loyola Academy linebacker Anthony Rodriguez: Defensive Player (LF, Sr.) DL: Marcus Shaw (HP, Sr.) of the Year. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER DL: Spencer Yauch (LF, Sr.) DB) Peter Gianaris (So., OL), Charlie Gilroy (Sr., TE), THE BRONZE LIST Christo Kelly (So., OL), John Highland Park ** Honorable Mentions ** Lynch (Sr., DB), Noah Jones ( Jr., WR), John McMahon (Sr., Jared Bloom ( Jr., RB), Justin Glenbrook North DL), Christopher Scott (Sr., Goodman (Sr., DB), Quentin LB) Griffin (Sr., DB), Will Hanson Alex Borczyk (So., DL), Ben Kieffer ( Jr., DB), Ethan Quayle (Sr., OL), Nick Heilizer (Sr., New Trier LB), John Sakos (Sr., QB) ( Jr., RB), Dane Spengel (Sr., DL), Quinn Sybert (So., LB), Brian Conaghan (Sr., DB), Lake Forest Michael Weingardt ( Jr., DL), Jacob Levy (Sr., DB), Brian Kyle Williams ( Jr., DB) Kaiser (Sr., WR), Max Chase Bahr ( Jr., OL), Alex Kaufman (Sr., DL), Konnor Moss (Sr., DB), Bryan Ooms Glenbrook South Klassen (Sr., OL), Carson (Sr., RB), Jacob Thomas ( Jr., RB), Eddie Scheidler ( Jr., DB), Kosanovich ( Jr., DB), Carson Jeffery Chrones (Sr., QB), Ochsenhirt ( Jr., QB), Duke Will Wisniewski ( Jr., LB), Jalen Covington (Sr., LB), Olges ( Jr., LB), Danny Passeri Patrick Yale (Sr., LB) Andrew Gall (So., RB), Ben (Sr., WR), Wilson MacRitchie Hides (Sr., WR), Cam (Sr., LB), Peter Murray (Sr., Loyola Gottfred (Sr., LB), Jack Jerfita LB) ( Jr., RB), Andy Sirakides (Sr., Patrick Daniels ( Jr., LB),

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HEART OF A LION All-stater Felitto was one of the main attractions for New Trier’s soccer team

BY BILL MCLEAN, SPORTS@NORTHSHOREWEEKEND.COM

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n a visit to Zambia with his family, a 14-year-old Will Felitto witnessed a relentless lion chasing a frantic buffalo herd.

It did not end well for one of the buffaloes.

“Fascinating, that was fascinating,” recalls Felitto, now a New Trier senior. “The lion, with a big mane, going after that herd, was a thrill for me. I have to admit, though … what happened to that buffalo was tough to watch.

“I’d never been a nature lover until I got to travel all over the world. I’ve been fortunate.”

Will loves the game, and people who watch soccer love to watch Will play soccer.”

— New Trier senior center-back Ben Axelrod, on NT senior center-forward Will Felitto Also fortunate: New Trier’s boys soccer team in 2017. Because the squad featured the 6-foot-2, 180 pound Felitto, a match-changing center-forward with a hungry lion’s mindset each time a center-back — or two — attempted to thwart him.

The third-year varsity booter finished with 15 goals and eight assists for a 17-4 team this past fall and earned Illinois High School Soccer Coaches Association (IHSSCA) all-state status.

“A classic center-forward,” classmate Ben Axelrod, a senior centerback for the Trevians in ’17, says of the Williams College-bound Felitto. “Will jumped higher than anybody else [for 50-50 balls], and with that build of his, with his energy and tenacity, he was an

a post-match huddle.

“Not just that,” says the teamfirst Felitto, who scored a goal in each of the Trevians’ first five contests in 2017 and gets a kick out of ultra-luxury cars — “I’m a car freak,” he admits — almost as much as he does soccer victories.

“We won a regional title [6-0, against Lane Tech] on that day, and Logan Weaver announced his verbal commitment to Northwestern on that day.

“Our new guys this year,” the FC United club soccer player adds, “meshed so well with the returners, and all of the returners had high expectations.”

Williams College men’s soccer coaches watched Felitto perform last December at the 2016 Disney Showcase in Kissimmee, Florida.

They liked what they saw and invited him to attend a Williams College ID camp in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Future Eph (Purple Cow) Felitto would like nothing more than to help the men’s soccer team accomplish what the Williams College women’s soccer team did on Dec. 2: capture an NCAA Division III national championship.

“Will’s ready, college-ready, with his size and frame and strength,” Ravenscraft says. “I have no doubt he’ll make a significant impact as a part of Williams’ soccer program.

And I see him succeeding beyond college, because Will surrounds himself with like-minded people — people who are driven, focused and balanced.”

READY, WILL-ING, ABLE: New Trier’s Will Felitto (No. 13), who earned all-state honors, will play college soccer at Williams College.

The face of New Trier boys PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER soccer in 2017 was the Trev who The win avenged a 1-0 loss to was lethal in the air off set pieces. absolute beast for us.

The gist of Felitto’s text message: soared straight up after scoring, “Will loves the game,” Axelrod the Spartans on Sept. 9.

Defensive headers, so many defen- Great job today. You played well. turned 180 degrees in midair and adds, “and people who watch soccer Man of the Match honors went sive headers.

Proud of you. landed with one of fists pumping.

“I can’t tell you how many delove to watch Will play soccer.” to that “Mane” Event Spectator in “I found out after the season Felitto completed the brief celebrafensive headers he won for us.”

A tri-captain (with senior goal- Zambia. that Will, without anyone having tion with an emphatic, “Yeahhhh!” keeper Sam Rutherford and junior “Will — big and tall and strong Following the CSL Champion- to tell him, had done that,” Raven“Will always ran right toward midfielder Logan Weaver), Felitto and athletic when he entered our ship, Felitto ate dinner at home in scraft says. “Here’s a guy, after his teammates after scoring,” scored NT’s first goal of the 2017 program — improved tremen- Winnetka, reflected and then playing the best game of his season, Axelrod says. “A goal from him season (in a 3-0 home win against dously as a soccer player since his decided to text a teammate. The maybe his life, going out of his way was never about him. But here’s Hersey, his dad Brent’s alma mater) sophomore season,”Trevians coach teammate had been in and out of to tell a teammate how much he what you need to know about Will: and NT’s last goal (in a 3-2 loss to Matt Ravenscraft says of the the starting lineup for most of the appreciated that teammate’s effort Will is a true gentleman. When Evanston in a Class 3A New Trier forward who scored three goals in season. Hopeful one day, frus- in the same game. Good leaders he’s talking with parents, with his sectional semifinal). He came up his sophomore season and three in trated the next. Big role one day, do that; good people do that.” coaches, with his teammates — big in one of New Trier’s biggest his junior season. “He wasn’t just reduced role the next. The teamA very good day in the life of with anybody, really — he’s mature matches, tallying a pair of goals a major weapon for us offensively mate had played significant Will Felitto was October 21, 2017. and respectful. If you’re looking for and assisting on another in NT’s with his technical abilities and minutes and an instrumental role On that day he — along with the a leader with qualities you want to 3-1 defeat of Glenbrook North in burst of speed this season; we used against Glenbrook North, and rest of New Trier’s soccer team represent your team or your orgathe Central Suburban League him on defense, depended on him Felitto felt the teammate deserved — found out about his selection nization, you want a leader like Championship match on Oct. 4. defensively during set pieces. He some praise. to the IHSSCA all-state team in Will.”

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Things are looking (way) up Highland Park High School’s volleyball team figures to be even better next season

BY BILL MCLEAN, SPORTS@NORTHSHOREWEEKEND.COM

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ighland Park High School girls volleyball coach Beth Peterson had to travel to conduct a little research midway through the 2017 season.

Her Giants had opened with a 5-0 mark in the Central Suburban League North this past fall, and a journalist (not this one) asked the coach, “When was the last time a girls volleyball team at HPHS finished a conference season as a division champion?”

Peterson knew something for sure: It had been a while.

But sportswriters usually want something more specific than that.

“I walked to our exhibition gym to look for a plaque that had that information,” Peterson says.

She found the plaque.

And she would have been forgiven for suddenly singing “Shining Star”, by Earth, Wind & Fire, since that was a hit in 1975 — the last year a Giants girls volleyball earned the right to celebrate a division championship.

Peterson’s girls then went 3-2 in the second half of division play. The Giants finished with an 8-2 record in the CSL North. So did Maine East. So did Maine West.

No matter.

All three shared the division title.

HP had doused a 42-yearold championship drought near the end of its 18-win season.

“To be a part of history was cool,” says junior outside hitter Ireland Hieb, a co-CSL North Player of the Year and one of four Giants (with junior setter Allyson Gordon, junior outside hitter Olivia Carter and senior right side hitter Miranda Mottlowitz) who garnered all-CSL North honors.

“I’m proud of my team; everybody had a part.”

LOFTY NUMBER: Junior standout Allyson Gordon came up with a Two single-season school school-record 606 assists for the Giants. records fell in the fall. Gordon PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER — now a three-time all-CSL Behnke had held since 2012. for digs in a season with her North pick — lofted a proGiants junior libero Ella Weil total of 272; former HPHS star gram-best 606 assists, surpassobliterated the previous record and former digs records holder ing by four the record Natalie

Stela Kukoc, now a 6-1 junior hitter at Miami of Ohio, finished with 192 digs in one of her seasons as an HPHS upperclassman.

“There wasn’t a bad egg on our team,” says the 5-11 Carter, a second-year varsity member who finished with 189 kills (second among teammates to Hieb’s 245), 93 digs, 36 aces and 21 blocks. “Everybody had a good attitude — the basis for a good team. We surprised teams … teams that expected to beat us easily.

“We stayed close outside of

was high-wire taut.

“A New Trier player’s parent came up to me after the match and told me, ‘Your team played us tougher than any other team had,’ ” recounts Peterson, the Giants’ head coach since 2002.

Peterson’s ’17 crew drew a rave review from at least one referee.

“A ref told me, ‘When your team is on, you can beat anybody,’ ” Carter says.

A volleyball team without a steady, level-headed setter is a rudderless one. Gordon, a Wildcat Juniors Volleyball Club member for several years, once again ser ved as the Giants’ Miss Reliable f rom Day One. In addition to all of her assists, she amassed 189 digs, 41 aces, 32 kills and 23 blocks.

“Allyson knew everybody’s game, knew exactly where to set the ball to each hitter and never failed to keep feeding it to the hot hitter,” says the 6-1 Hieb, who first received sets f rom Gordon when the pair played for the eighth-grade team at Edgewood Middle School in 2014-15.

“Amazing,” Hieb adds, “Allyson is an amazing setter.”

Senior outside hitter Dana — Highland Park Pulfer, a captain who sustained couple of serious knee injujunior outside hitter aries early in her prep career, Olivia Carter, on the did not lead her final Giants in any of the major staGiants’ first CSL North team tistical categories. girls volleyball title But she did get blamed, team in 42 years good-naturedly, for a loss in a tournament.

“Dana,” Peterson says, volleyball during the season, “played such a big role for us and we’re close in the offsea- on the bench. We needed her leadership when players were son.”

Respect for the Giants’ taken out of sets; she’d remind abilities and competitive spirit them to stay positive, to increased with each week support the players who were during the season. Opponents on the court. Dana was all found out in a hurry that a about teammates embracing match with HPHS would be their roles and never feeling a fierce one … in each set. down about anything.

New Trier, an eventual Class “One weekend,” the coach 4A sectional champion with a adds, “Dana had to miss one final record of 33-6, had dis- of our matches to attend a patched foes rather quickly at family wedding. We lost the the outset of the season until match. We probably would it faced HP. NT topped HP in have won it had she been able straight sets, but the first set to be with us that day; that’s

There wasn’t a bad egg on our team.

Everybody had a good attitude — the basis for a good team.”

how much she meant to our team.”

Mottlowitz, another Giant with a knack for sparking her teammates in between points and matches, finished with 149 kills, 119 digs, 32 aces and 22 blocks; senior middle Ellie Sullivan popped for a teamhigh 54 blocks to go with her 118 kills.

Ten of Peterson’s 14 varsity players in 2017 have at least one year of eligibility remaining. “ We’re going to be even better next year,” Hieb says.

“You’re going to see a team play with a lot of confidence each time we take the court.

We’d love to win the [the CSL North] title again — without sharing it with another team or teams.”

Carter has a similar vision.

“We’re going to have the potential to repeat,” the firstyear Wildcat Juniors member says. “But we’re going to have to do it against teams that will no longer assume an easy win when they play us.

“We’ll have to work harder next year than we did this year.”

Notable: Other members of HP’s CSL North girls volleyball championship team in 2017: junior setter/defensive specialist Michela Lens, sophomore DS Abby Bain, junior outside hitter Helena Grobelny, senior DS Tessa Bojan, junior middle blocker/rightside hitter Teagan Hughes, sophomore S/RH Georgia Sullivan and sophomore DS Talia Teich. … Giants coach Beth Peterson, on junior libero Ella Weil, who established a program record for digs (272) in a season, a year after serving as a rotation player on varsity: “Ella honed her technique, gained maturity as a player and gave us consistent efforts.” …

Highland Park, seeded 10th in the Class 4A New Trier Sectional, fell in three sets to seventh-seeded Barrington in a regional semifinal on Oct. 24.

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Ace adventurer

BY BILL MCLEAN ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY BLITT

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young Tom Weinberg, circa 1954, galumphs along a ravine in Highland Park.There’s no other place he’d rather be. The gorge with steep sides is his escape, his world, his playground with streams. The imaginative, adventurous gradeschool boy imagines the last human to have stomped the terrain under his feet did so in the late 1800s.

Mid-February 2015. Tom Weinberg, still adventurous, is a 70-year-old journalist/TV producer/professor, braving the conditions in the Mosquitia Jungle of Honduras with author Douglas Preston, cinematographer/documentarian Steve Elkins, jungle survival experts and a team of archaeologists.

“We dealt with rainstorms on steroids,” Weinberg recalls. “And Doug Preston called a spot in the jungle ‘more Jurassic than Jurassic Park.’ ” They were there to search for The Lost City of the Monkey God (or Ciudad Blanca), a quest that began with an Elkins video shoot in 1994.

Weinberg, 73, and Elkins, 66, have been friends since the 1970s.

“It became something of an obsession for both of us,” Weinberg writes in his book, Chasing the Lost City: Chronicles of Discovery in Honduras (Eckhartz Press, 2017), a pictorial and personal companion to Preston’s 2017 New York Times bestseller, The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story.

“Nearly every night I wrote my personal impressions [17 chronicles in 2012; 12 more in 2015] of our journeys into the unknown.”

Hang on to that tease, dear readers …

Time for a rewind: I know I’m in for a fascinating couple of hours of storytelling the minute I sit down with Weinberg for lunch at Charlie Beinlich’s Food & Tap in Northbrook.

Lunch? For a “Sunday Breakfast” piece? Weinberg had opted for the mid-afternoon get-together, and I — feeling adventurous — had acquiesced.

I want to get to know what Weinberg was like decades before he became a real-life Indiana Jones without a fear of snakes. I find out his late father, Lou,

moved from the South Side of Chicago to Highland Park in 1939 and sold dry cake mixes.

Tom played for the tennis and freshman ‘B’ basketball teams at Highland Park High School and relished his time as sports editor of the student newspaper at the University of Michigan.

“That was a real job,” Weinberg says of covering Wolverines’ exploits on fields and in arenas and laying out print stories for pregadget-toting students in Ann Arbor.

Weinberg orders beer and a cheddar burger. I opt for a burger and a glass of water. (My workday is at halftime).

My engaging lunch mate, who earned his MBA from New York University in 1968, became a video pioneer and a nationally recognized television producer with four Emmy Awards. He has produced more than 500 nonfiction TV shows that have appeared on public television and commercial stations. Remember that PBS (WTTW-Chicago) staple, Image Union? Weinberg was its Emmy Award-winning producer; the hour-long episodes showcased the works of independent filmmakers in the 1970s and 1980s.

He has worked with actor/comedian/writer Bill Murray on a number of projects.

But Bill Murray isn’t Bill Murray to Weinberg.

He’s …

“Billy,” Weinberg says.

Among Weinberg’s best friends in the 20th Century were former Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck and author/historian Studs Terkel. In 1985 Weinberg produced and directed a docum e n t a r y, Veeck: A Man for A n y Season (mediaburn.org/ video/ veeck-aman-forany-seasonraw-47).

“Bill Veeck was outgoing, antiestablishment, and he cap-

tured people’s imagination,” says Weinberg, who lives in Chicago’s Greektown and is thinking of moving back to Highland Park to be closer to daughter Anna, 33, and granddaughter Maggie Jane, 3. (Weinberg also has a son, Jesse, an actor/waiter in Los Angeles.

“Veeck,” he adds, “was incredibly innovative, liked to have fun. A close friend of mine.

“I was lucky to be pals with my hero.”

Back to Weinberg’s book and his days and nights — some enlightening and fascinating, others stressful and rife with bites from sand flies — in Honduras …

I learn what LiDAR means (Light Detection And Ranging), and why Weinberg and his Monkey God searchers relied on it in 2012.

“We had to use laser techniques, so that we could see through the jungle canopy,” Weinberg says.

Some three years later, when the indefatigable adventurers returned to the Mosquitia Jungle, Weinberg finally, finally, finally got to experience a head-totoe-tingling sensation on February, 19, 2015.

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ground in the mud of a constant rain was a transformative moment of real discovery,” he writes in Chasing the Lost City. “It was unlike anything I ever felt before.

Here were these shards of pottery

We dealt with rainstorms on steroids, and [author] Doug Preston called a spot in the jungle ‘more Jurassic than Jurassic Park.’

—Highland Park native Tom Weinberg, on the conditions and scenery during a search for a lost city in Honduras and artifacts that had been undisturbed for at least 500 years, and we were the first people to find them.

“After a few days,” he continues, “I felt major satisfaction knowing that together we had made the discovery of those relics and the unknown civilization that was responsible for creating them.

Nearly 20 years of chasing was justified.”

Tom Weinberg is scheduled to make three book-signing appearances for his Chasing the Lost City: Chronicles of Discovery in Honduras: The Book Stall, 811 Elm Street, Winnetka, January 21, 2018, 2 p.m.; The Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, January 25, 7 p.m.; and Lake Forest Book Store, 662 N. Western Avenue, Lake Forest, February 1, 6-7 p.m.

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