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ake Bluff resident David Barkhausen was walking along the bluff at Sunrise Park this past Sunday when he saw with binoculars what he thought was a capsized sailboat far out on choppy Lake Michigan. He called the Lake Bluff Police Department’s nonemergency number, which resulted in a rush of police and fire personnel from Lake Bluff, Knollwood, Lake Forest and the U.S. Coast Guard. It also resulted in the rescue of a distressed sailor. Crews from Lake Bluff and Knollwood took off in a rescue boat from Lake Bluff ’s beach, while Lake Forest paramedics headed out from the Forest Park Beach harbor in their boat. Continued on PG 13
IN HER BOOK
Fascinating characters abound in Rebecca Makkai’s collection of short stories Library and on Sept. 10 at 7 p.m. at Northbrook Public Library. ake Bluff native and Lake Gregg Shapiro: Rebecca, if you Forest resident Rebecca don’t mind, I’d like to begin by Makkai is a North Shore talking about the Music For treasure. Wartime cover, which is reminisHer debut novel The Borrower cent of a bygone era. I know that and her second novel The Hundred- authors aren’t usually involved in Year House not only earned her the book cover process, but I was critical praise and awards but also wondering what you think of it. a dedicated following of readers Rebecca Makkai: I love it! I who love her talent for telling know plenty of authors who have marvelous stories. no say-so in their book jackets. I’m That aptitude is once again on fortunate that my agent and I display, this time in a short story basically have veto power on the collection titled Music For Wartime cover. My editor is amazing, and (Viking). The 17 stories, including she lets us gives a lot of input into one as short as little more than a things like what artists we’re page, feature an assortment of choosing. My first two books had creative and fascinating characters hand-drawn covers, and we worked — musicians and composers, pho- with the artist on that. tographers and other visual artists, For Music For Wartime, it’s hard circus people and reality TV people for a story collection because — all of whom are survivors in one there’s not one central image that you can necessarily latch onto the way or another. Makkai will read on Aug. 12 at way that for The Hundred-Year 10:30 a.m. at Highland Park Public House they could put a house on BY GREGG SHAPIRO
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the cover. They sent us some proposals that were cool. There was one with a bird’s talons swooping down. Nothing was quite right. They were getting sort of close and then suddenly, out of nowhere, they sent us this (image that became the cover). It was so bold and graphic and cool. The font, I felt, was sort of a throwback, like you said, to an earlier era. It almost feels
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home on Barberry Road in Highland ired of being “held hostage,” Park. “We need to put the pressure on David Schuster said he wants to change the law about vacant banks so that a house cannot remain houses like the one next door to his vacant for over a certain amount of
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like a reissue of Kafka or something. GS: Can you please say something about determining the order of the stories in a collection such as Music For Wartime? RM: I thought of it in terms of putting together an album. Of course, no one listens to whole albums anymore. But back when we did…
time without a penalty,” said Schuster. He described how water bills used to pile up on the front lawn of the vacant house. Wild animals and insects made themselves at home there. The Highland Park native has resided in town for more than 50 years and is an award-winning reporter for WSCR-AM/670 (The Score). At a Highland Park City Council meeting, Schuster suggested that the vacant
GS: …actually, all the kids are listening to vinyl these days. RM: [Laughs] Great! The way a musical artist put together an album — they were trying to tell a story with the order as well as with each song. There’s a lot to the order of this collection. It starts with the story “The Singing Continued on PG 12
property be put on the market for a “low-ball price,” like a foreclosed property in the neighborhood. “In essence this house is holding our community hostage, because it is run down. My house has been on the market for four or five months and I didn’t get one nibble,” he said. “Now I can’t tell you 100 percent that it was because of the abandoned house next Continued on PG 13
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ith some high schools as fancy as mansions — and with the main building of one preparatory school housed in a former mansion — North Shore teens are a fortunate bunch. With family incomes far exceeding the national average, one might think college costs are met without care. Not true. Plenty of high schoolers in the area, in fact, forgo college given the exorbitant cost, which can easily exceed $100,000 for a public university. College Bound Opportunities (CBO) is trying to fix that. “So many people don’t realize there’s a need on the North Shore,” says Jarrod Daab, director of development at the Highland Parkbased non-profit.
Cliff Bregstone found out in an unexpected way. While helping to push a car off a North Shore road during a snowstorm a decade ago, he talked with the stranded family and found out the daughter had not applied to college — even though she was halfway through her senior year. They simply couldn’t afford it. Spurred by the revelation, Bregstone founded College Bound Opportunities in 2006. Four kids joined the first year; more recently, 70 high school juniors applied from Highland Park High School, Lake Forest High School and Deerfield High School, and only 27 were accepted into the competitive program. CBO looks for students who possess a drive to get ahead rather than ones who post the best grades; a B- average is not a hindrance if other strengths are apparent. Why the surge in interest among students to take part? To start off, CBO pays for ACT prep classes. Student scores jump an average of 2.5 points, which gives them more merit aid opportunities in college. Upon high school graduation, they all receive a laptop from CBO. The non-prof-
it — which raises about $750,000 a year in donations — runs a paid internship fair featuring more than a dozen companies so students can find temporary work with the possibility of full-time employment down the line. Once at college, CBO pays up to $16,000 for four years. The income of the average family CBO helps? Right around $30,000. “There’s not a lot left over for college there,” Daab says. “Our main goal is to graduate as many kids as possible.” CBO volunteers start mentoring students during their junior year in high school and then help them from afar through college graduation. It’s a lengthy commitment, but the organization boasts a waiting list of potential mentors. “Students often say their mentors are their best friends,” Daab says. “Mentors try not to be another parent. They’re there as cheerleaders. In the grand scheme, the money is less important than the mentoring.” An example: A mentor accompanied an Asian student and her father during a visit to the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at
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Northwestern University. Seeing a number of Asian students at an open house, the father — who was against college to begin with because of the cost — bristled, “They’ll overlook you. This is a waste of time.” Defusing the situation, the mentor suggested they merely take a look. The student not only was accepted at Northwestern’s engineering school — she received a full-ride scholarship. With close to 200 CBO graduates over the years, Daab says all are either employed or in graduate school, an astounding rate of success. They’ve attended more than 50 colleges, from Stanford University to Miami of Ohio. Nine out of every 10 CBO students are first-generation college students in their families — and their influence there is profound. Says Daab, “It’s become a family affair. A lot of siblings and cousins are applying.” Enjoy the weekend.
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The Hundred-Year House. Were any of the stories in the book Women” and it ends on an image, originally intended to be novelin the story “The Museum of the length as well? Dearly Departed,” of two people RM: The only story that I singing, and this woman listening thought of originally as a novel to them and not knowing what is that last story, “The Museum to make of it; those two moments of the Dearly Departed.” It’s a bookend the collection. story about this apartment buildAlso, there are stories about ing in Chicago where there’s my own family history that are been a gas leak and most of the woven through that buildup as tenants have died. These people you go and also cast light on the are coming in and cleaning out other stories and why I would the apartments, and there’s this write them. It was important for woman who’s inherited an apartme to balance the humor and the ment and doesn’t really know darkness in the collection by not what to do with all of the things. having too many heavy or light It gets more complicated from stories next to each other. (I there. I originally had it plotted wanted) to change the texture as out as a novel. It was going to be I went and keep it in balance. about all of these people coming GS: The stories in Music For back to these apartments. It Wartime were written before, would actually be a pretty heavy during and after the publication book, but I think it would work of your novels The Borrower and as a novel. GS: I’m glad you said something about hitting notes. As one could glean from the title of the collection, music is a recurring theme in the book. Do you play an instrument? RM: I do. Not seriously or anything. I play the piano and I sing. I should say that I sing like most people sing — in the car. I should say that I sang pretty seriously through college, doing a touring chamber ensemble and things like that, as well as musical theater. The piano was also during college, but I was never going to make a career of it. My parents were both talented musicians. My mom played the organ and my dad was Says author Rebecca Makkai an amazing piano player. That about the cover, “it almost wasn’t their career. They were both linguistics professors. I feels like a reissue of Kafka or something.” grew up going to the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra. There were concerts in my house when I was a kid, which was something I put into one of the stories in the collection. As I started assembling stories, I noticed that there was music in a lot of them, and the other arts were coming up, too. I decided to make that a focal point of the collection. To a certain extent, I wrote a couple of stories to fill that in. The story “Cross” is about a string quartet. I specifically thought – “If I’m going to make music the focus of the collection, I really need a story about actual practicing professional musicians somewhere in here.” Fortunately, I
“My writing has gotten a ton out of having done theater as a kid. Living inside a story for that long, you learn about story structure in a way that I don’t think you can just from reading.” —Rebecca Makkai
managed to find the help of a professional violinist to read a couple of the stories involving string instruments because I was winging it on that stuff [laughs]. GS: In the story “Cross” that you mentioned, the main character, Celine, comes home after being away to discover that a memorial shrine has been erected in front of her house because of an accident in which deaths occurred. Why do you think that the phenomena of crosses and shrines at accident sites has become increasingly popular, and what do you think of them? RM: I think that’s why I wrote that story. I’m really disturbed by them. Not in the same way that the character in my story is disturbed. For her, it’s her house where it happened. The people making the memorial have made it incredibly tacky, and she feels she might be a snob for thinking that. She’s having religious issues with it. I go on a lot of long crosscountry trips with my family, and you see them everywhere. They probably make me a more careful driver. It’s really disconcerting to see, “Oh my gosh, all these people died on this road!” In many cases they are on somebody’s property line. They’re going to be seeing it every time they look out their window. The issues that someone could have with that is that it is a marker of death, which is disturbing, and also that it’s an overtly religious symbol. It came to me the way a lot of stories come to me where I’m noticing something in real life and sort of dwelling on it and obsessing about it and then realizing that
there might be something there to write about. GS: The downtown New York art world is referenced in “St. Anthony Come Around.” In 2015, that world also figures into Kim Gordon’s memoir Girl In A Band and Brad Gooch’s memoir Smash Cut, as well as the movie Downtown 81, starring JeanMichel Basquiat, which was just reissued on DVD. What do you think it is about that scene that has made it undergo such a renaissance? RM: I don’t if it’s the amount of time that’s passed. I’m noticing it in other ways, too. The novel that I’m currently working on is set in 1985, in Chicago, with the specter of AIDS looming in the background. It’s also set partly in the present day. Because I’ve been writing about it, I’ve been really in tune with what’s being published and talked about. Dale Peck just wrote a book called Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS. Hanya Yanagihara wrote a novel called A Little Life that’s been getting a ton of press and seems to be about a circle of gay friends in the 1980s. From what I understand, she eclipses the AIDS issue in an interesting way. I’ve been questioning why I would want to write about that in this story and in my next novel. I was born in 1978. I was alive (then), but I wasn’t part of the Chicago or New York art scenes [laughs]. My life wasn’t directly impacted by AIDS in the sense that I didn’t lose anybody. I wonder if it’s just that we’ve had processing time for the AIDS issue, the art scene and everything that was going on in the `80s. There used to be
more of a kitschy fascination with it. GS: You make reference to movies in “The Museum of the Dearly Departed.” Which, if any of these stories, would you like to see made into a movie and why? RM: Mmm, cool! That’s a great question. If you were to expand the plot greatly and add a lot of stuff to it, I think that “Saint Anthony Come Around” would be an interesting one. There’s this huge mystery at the heart of it. There’s a man who has disappeared and you have a lot of different characters that you could theoretically follow around through the 1980s art world, all of whom would have their own stories. GS: What are some of your fondest memories of growing up in Lake Bluff? RM: The education that I got, in every aspect, was really friendly to someone who would wind up going into the arts and writing. I went to Forest Bluff School in Lake Bluff, which is Montessori. I couldn’t write stories all day, but I would write stories any day, if that makes sense. I went to Lake Forest Academy for high school. I had this string of amazing English teachers who let me do creative work. Also, acting in plays at Gorton (Community Center) and doing musical theater in high school; it’s a community that values and supports the arts. My writing has gotten a ton out of having done theater as a kid. Living inside a story for that long, you learn about story structure in a way that I don’t think you can just from reading.
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of Rockford after an absence of nearly two centuries. Jeff Walk, director of science for The Nature Conservancy in Illinois, will explain the significance of the project, the details of the relocation effort, the bisons’ role, and their expected impact on the Nachusa bird community. Admission is free. Check www. lakecookaudubon.org for more information.
The talk “Bison & Birds at Nachusa Grasslands” will take Highland Park place Tuesday, Aug. 18 at 7 p.m. Dr. Mark and the Sutures will at Heller Nature Center. perform a free concert in tribute Last year, bison returned to to the late Dan Kornblut, Elm Nachusa Grasslands southwest Place Middle School principal
for 36 years. It will take place Saturday, Aug. 22 from 7 p.m.10:30 p.m. in Port Clinton Square (rain location — Elm Place School auditorium). Former Mayor Ray Geraci, Superintendent Mike Lubelfeld, Elm Place Principal Rich Schroeder, Councilwoman Alyssa Knobel and Dr. Mark Nolan Hill will pay tribute to Kornblut during the concert. Mrs. Jane Kornblut and her family will be present. This is the 28th year Dr. Mark and the Sutures have performed pro bono for Highland Park.
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Art Show, featuring Art-inBloom, launches with an Artists’ Opening Reception and Benefit Party on Friday, Sept. 11 from 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. at the Winnetka Community House. Cost is $60 per person in advance, $70 per person at the door. The piano trio Sorriso will perform classical music. For more information regarding the Members’ Art Show, please contact the North Shore Art League off ice at 847-4462870, e-mail nsal@sbcglobal. Winnetka The 91st Annual North net or visit www.northshoreShore Art League Members’ artleague.org. The Lake Forest Preservation Foundation will host a Late Summer Garden Stroll on Friday, Aug. 28 from 5:30 p.m.7:30 p.m. Those joining will explore a restored ravine and garden along with a new lap pool and poolhouse. Reservations are required. The house address will be provided upon reservation. Call 847.234.1230 or visit www.lfpf.org.
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he proposed five-story mixed-use building at 611 Green Bay Road received the final green light from the Wilmette Village Board at its meeting on July 28. The board voted unanimously to approve the plans for the development by M & R Development at its meeting. Trustee Julie Wolfe recused herself to avoid the appearance of impropriety, since her husband is currently working on another project with M & R. In April 2014 the Village adopted a new zoning ordinance that changed the planned unit development (PUD) process in effort to make it more streamlined. Under the new zoning ordinance, a zoning administrator must certify that the PUD plans
conform. Jonathan Adler, the village’s Director of Community Development, also plays the role of zoning administrator. At the meeting, Adler explained to the board that he and his staff had conducted an ex-
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night, the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning and rumors of tornadoes began to surface in Lake County. “When the storm pressure and the wind get as strong as they did, the lake does some very interesting things,” said Lake Bluff Fire Chief David Graf. “It was quite gusty, and with very high-power bin-
oculars we could see an individual in the water next to a sailboat, and the individual appeared to be holding on to the boat, wearing a life jacket. “If it hadn’t been called in and we hadn’t been able to find the individual, there’s no telling what might have happened because if nothing else he was drifting toward Michigan,” he added.
VACANT HOUSES Cont. from PG 1 representative of the owner over the July 4 weekend. Fontane said, to us, but I’m sure it constituted “There is not much that we can part of the reason.” do as staff to encourage or compel He said no action was taken a property owner to sell a propfor the first two years it was aban- erty that is otherwise in terms of doned, adding that neighbors compliance of code in good took turns mowing the lawn for standing.” the first year. City Manager Ghida Neukirch Director of Community De- said the Highland Park Police velopment Joel Fontane told the Department has been addressing council that city staff has been concerns about wild animals on out several times this year in the property. regard to animals and general “If the council is interested property maintenance. He cited there may be some statutory city code that the lawn should regulations that allow us to take not exceed eight inches in height. action beyond what we currently The staff corresponded with a have available to us. We may be
able to work with corporation council to pursue other avenues. We can’t really force the bank to do anything with these properties.” Jack Levin lives across the street from Schuster. He told the council, “We’re all very pleased that the city has taken some action now, because it really looked like a deserted house with grass at a very high level.” Levin added, “If you go to a house and you’re thinking of buying it, and you see an abandoned house with stickers right next door, it’s going to make you think twice.”
When they arrived at the capsized 14-foot Sunfish, Lake Forest’s crew assessed the sailor, who was determined to be in good health. The Coast Guard retrieved the boat. The incident happened when off-shore winds were blowing at about 30 miles per hour. Later that
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FOUNDATION ENSURES HISTORIC DAY WILL LIVE ON darts at balloons and hope to win a stuffed animal. Of course, now uring the Lake Forest Day we also go to the beer tent,” Wood celebration this week, Art said with a laugh. Wood reminisced about past These memories inspired Wood parades and carnivals. to work with volunteers who in He was raised in a house a few 2008 (the 100th anniversary of blocks from West Park, the site of Lake Forest Day) raised $1 million head-spinning rides and fun-loving from local donors to establish the games. Wood and his mother Lake Forest Day Foundation to dropped ping-pong balls into fish- ensure its continuation. The founbowls to win new family pets; one dation works quietly to support the year the prize was ducklings that changing needs of American took up residence in their yard. Legion McKinlock Post 264, As an adult living in Florida, which for nearly 90 years has orWood scheduled family trips to ganized Lake Forest Day. visit his parents to coincide with “This might be sponsoring Lake Forest Day — the first bands or paying the insurance costs Wednesday each August — so that on the beer tent,” said Jack Prehis two daughters might have their schlack, another founding member own memories of the community of the Lake Forest Day Foundation celebration. Board. “Lake Forest Day is put on “The girls are 29 now, and I still by the Legion for the Legion, and take them to the carnival to throw if one year there’s some inclement BY JOANNA BROWN
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weather, they might need some supplemental support that the foundation can provide.” American Legion Posts across the country are losing membership. McKinlock Post 264 is not immune from that trend, and some day the membership will be insufficient to organize and staff Lake Forest Day events. Lake Forest Day Foundation funds could be used at that time to hire the staff needed to support the events, Jim Holmes explained. “With the recent addition of the Sons of the American Legion and its volunteers to support Lake Forest Day, the Legion is able to keep Lake Forest Day going today,” said Holmes, a member of both the American Legion and the Lake Forest Day Foundation Board. “But we’re going to have to start hiring out (for historically volun-
“The girls are 29 now, and I still take them to the carnival to throw darts at balloons and hope to win a stuffed animal.” —Art Wood teer posts) somewhere down the line.” McKinlock Post 264 was founded in 1919 when an influx of soldiers returned from World War I. The post remained strong and a hub of social activity with the ad-
dition of personnel returning from World War II. Today, veterans are dwindling. Bud Turner, who is also active with the Lake Forest Day Foundation and the American Legion, explained that “now only 1 percent of Americans are veterans. We have some active volunteers at the Legion, mostly from Vietnam, with fewer from Desert Storm and subsequent conflicts.” At present the interest from the Foundation’s endowment exceeds the Legion’s need for support. The Foundation’s charter designates the excess for charities benefitting local veterans and active military personnel Among them, the Lake Country Veterans and Family Services Foundation supports more than 400 veterans with post traumatic stress disorder and their families.
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“These families are all going through it together, whether they were in combat or not,” Holmes said. “There are repercussions that they all have to live with. And our veterans do not make a lot of money; this organization can give them financial assistance and financial education.” Other grants from the Lake Forest Day Foundation have provided medical equipment for patients of the Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago and No-Dough Dinners served to military personnel by the USO of Illinois the night before payday. “We keep things as local as possible,” Preschlack said. “We just want to be sure our support gets delivered to people who need it.” For more information about the Lake Forest Day Foundation, contact Jack Preschlack at jepcor@tds.net.
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ACTIVE WOMEN IN 80S, 90S INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHER in their 80s and 90s engaged in physical activities. ake Forest native Laurie “We all know the power of an Giesen had good intentions: image that has truth. I hope this she would swim at Lake show will serve to inspire others Forest High School four morn- to think of themselves as artists ings a week to improve her making their selves — both fitness. inside and out — their greatest It wasn’t always easy to wake masterpieces,” Giesen said. up when the alarm sounded, but Molly Heizer, 85, was photoGiesen found inspiration in the graphed boxing. She attends the other swimmers around her — same church as Giesen and inmost especially an 86-year-old troduced her to Betsy Pocock, a woman “in awesome shape” she 96-year-old swimmer. explained. Peg Gudbrandsen is a fast The experience inspired walker since she retired from Giesen to share the octogenar- doing the triathlons she took up ian swimmer’s example with at age 80. Mary DeBoer gets a others in the community through low-impact workout on a her photography. Giesen, a pro- NuStep machine. Others play Laurie Giesen. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER fessional photographer, is exhib- golf and do leg lifts. “They just don’t give up, and moment, capturing a personaliting “Body Art” at the Lake Common to all the women, Forest Library through Aug. 21 Giesen said, were their positive they shared their hearts with me, ity — that comes very naturally to highlight eight local women attitudes and big hearts. too,” she said. “Capturing a to me, and I love doing it.” BY JOANNA BROWN
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Giesen’s career path has been winding, including stints in television and print news, corporate communications and photography, in cities from New York to Seattle. She returned to her native Lake Forest a year ago and has pursued more personal projects. “I photograph subjects that I’m passionate about, but it needs to have a message that benefits the public,” Giesen said. A previous mixed media exhibit presented at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History in Monterey, Calif., presented the abuse of technology and its negative impact on modern society. It was born from the warm feelings Giesen got from the personal phone calls and visits (a warmth that was lacking in well-intentioned
emails) she received while she was recuperating from a back injury many years ago. “I believe in the power of the human touch and personal connections and personal health,” she said. “As a photographer, I thought it would be meaningful to create an exhibit of 80-plusyear-old women who have made a lifelong effort to take pride in their appearance and be active, fit, healthy and happy.” Giesen hopes people who see her photographs in the display cases and panels at the Lake Forest Library entrance will be as inspired by the subject as she is. “I’ve been an athletic person most of my life but not always fit. I encourage others to be honest about how they want to look.”
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TECHNO LUXURY The homebuyer of today is definitely concerned with keeping up—not with the Joneses, perhaps, but with the ever-changing face of technology. A fully appointed den or media room used to be an important selling point in a home—today, these things are de rigueur, standard in nearly every home on the market. In order to increase the market appeal of your home and be competitive with other homes of comparable structure, size and amenities for sale in your area, the new key selling point of a property is the home office. Once a rarity, the home office has evolved into the home’s hub and center of operation and activity, often controlling every technological amenity of the house from one room. Modern home automation systems link lighting, heating and air conditioning systems, as well as audio-visual equipment, security systems and the scheduling of television, recording systems, stereo equipment and lighting fixtures. The modern home office isn’t just for business professionals, technological connoisseurs, or the higher-earning set, either. Today’s home technology features are high-end home amenities that are available across a wide range of budgets, turning an average home into an above-average home when it hits the market, giving tech-savvy dwellings a competitive market edge. Take a look at your home’s wiring, routing and see what simple upgrades you could implement that would simplify your day-to-day living while you’re in the home, and that could add top-dollar value to your home when it comes time to put it on the market. Ask yourself: Is your home techno-ready? For professional advice from an experienced Realtor, call Jean Wright at (847) 217-1906 or email at jwright@jeanwright.com
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NAME OF ECLECTIC RESTAURANT FAR FROM MERE HAPP-ENSTANCE country seven years before with his wife, Anna, (who was also efore The Happ Inn Bar born in the Old World). Upon & Grill in Northfield arriving in the New World, became a neighborhood both headed west for Illinois. Like other pioneer families staple it was farmland — and before it became farmland it before him, Happ eventually was a swamp. settled in Northfield. In his At the time, John Happ was heyday, the blacksmith-turnedliving with his family — nine farmer owned a farm that sons and a daughter — in Win- spanned 80 acres in 1877, acnetka. Happ was a German cording to the La Salle County blacksmith, trained in the art Directory. of anvil and hammer. Before Happ Road is named after the railroad arrived in 1854, him (or his descendants) and Happ had immigrated to this so is, of course, The Happ Inn. Both occupy land that he first settled. “We believe in longevity,” says Carlos Nieto, owner of The Happ Inn. Nieto is a restaurateur through and through, with over 30 years of experience running restaurants in Highland Park. In August, the Happ Inn will celebrate six years. Not quite Happ numbers, but one day… It ’s a testament to this country that German-American ploughed farmland is now occupied by a restaurant that serves an eclectic mix of dishes. “A little bit of Mexican, Chef Freddy Sanchez Italian, American, and just a BY SIMON MURRAY
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little bit of French,” explains the chef, Freddy Sanchez. Whereas Café Central and Nieto’s — two other Nietoowned restaurants — offer a for-the-most-part monoethnic cuisine, The Happ Inn is noticeably more diverse. “Not much different than Nieto’s,” notes Sanchez, “but because of the size of the restaurant we needed to have a bigger menu.” Sanchez, who comes to Chicago by way of Acapulco, Mexico, was at first hired as a consultant but then stayed on as executive chef. The Southwest Salad, which is their No. 1-selling salad and a signature dish of the restaurant, comes from his years working with one-off Mexican and Lettuce Entertain You restaurants downtown. Swamp to farmland to eclectic restaurant. The people change, and with them the land, and lastly — but maybe most importantly — the food. The Happ Inn Bar & Grill is located at 305 Happ Rd. in Northf ield. Call 847-784-9200 for reservations.
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very weekday morning, all across the North Shore, career-oriented men and women head out to their jobs. They may be young hotshots climbing the corporate ladder, mid-life pros at their peak or seasoned old-timers who shudder at the idea of retirement. They’re a diverse mix of wellemployed talent, opening their laptops, recharging their smartphones, logging on, tapping in, then tapping on keyboards as they fire up the engine of American business for another day. And where do many of these people park their busy butts on most mornings? An office build-
ing in the city miles from home after a lengthy train ride? Nope. That’s old-time thinking caused by old-time movies or maybe by remembering where your dad worked. They’re at a nearby North Shore coffee emporium. You can almost smell the espresso in the air as you read these words. (In fact, you might actually be smelling the espresso because you’re reading this in your own favorite coffee spot.) The automatic assumption that daily business is conducted in an office is not automatic any more. Many of us don’t go to work in corporate beehives. Not
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The 2015 Dinner on the Bluff and 55th Annual Pro Amateur Golf Championship held in June broke a previous record by raising more than $1.6 million to benefit Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. The tournament at Onwentsia Club, hosted by the hospital’s Founders’ Board, is the second oldest pro amateur golf tournament in the nation. Cammie Hoban, Karin Larkins, and Kim Urban, all of Winnetka, cochaired the event, and David Boles of Kenilworth and Toby Davis of Lake Forest chaired the Men’s Golf Committee. The dinner at Shoreacres in Lake Bluff kicked off the two-day event and featured a surprise performance by Jim Cornelison of Chicago Blackhawks fame. The funds will help complete the Founders’ Board commitment to the hospital’s departments of hematology, oncology, neuro-oncology, and stem cell transplants.
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After a Magic-al summer, New Trier standout eager to dazzle soccer audiences this fall BY BILL MCLEAN, SPORTS@NORTHSHOREWEEKEND.COM
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ichael Gallo was down and nearly out last month, flat on his back on a soccer pitch in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his chest heaving, his eyes closed. He and his U17 Chicago Magic Preacademy teammates had just finished playing Arlington (Virginia) Impact Red in a US Youth Soccer championship final, in tripledigit temperatures. More than a few other Magic players, drained and battered and no longer able to sweat, hit the turf at about the same time Gallo, a senior-to-be at New Trier High School, had landed on it July 26. “If people hadn’t watched any part of that game and then only saw us trying to recover on that field after it was over,” Gallo says, “those people would have thought, Oh, that team must have lost. Dead. We all felt dead.” Gallo’s team won that day, 4-1. The 5-foot-8, 150-pound Gallo, a right back who had started the season as a forward on the Highland Park-based club, scored the final goal in a sequence that began with a punch-out from Magic goalkeeper Carlos Pineda, a 2015 Highland Park High School graduate. Gallo dribbled and dribbled and dribbled, stopping, finally, to deliver a cross at the other end of a Mohawk Soccer Complex pitch. He then ran some more and eventually found the ball at his feet again. The co-captain controlled the ball and beat Impact Red’s keeper from about 20 yards out. Gallo raced to a sideline to hug Magic coach Bato Radoncic. Time expired shortly thereafter. Magic booters, spent and melting, all fell down. “We had 18 players,” Gallo, also a co-captain of New Trier’s Trevians (with senior defender/midfielder Jacob Moskowitz) this fall, says. “All 18 could have started for any team that had qualified for nationals. That gave us an advantage in the heat. That gave us a huge advantage against teams with only 12 players. We were deep and strong.” The U17 Chicago Magic (2-0-1 in pool play), which also featured Winnetkans Spencer Farina and Brad Nassar and Highland Park resident Elijah Rice, battled in five
with the move initially. But it grew on him, and the Magic raced to leads, quite comfortable leads. Coach Radoncic’s side needed only the first 27 minutes of the first half to tally five goals against Sunrise Elite 97/98 at nationals. Trevians assistant soccer coach Matt Ravenscraft got wind of Gallo’s new slot and started thinking. Thinking led to wondering. The coach contacted the new defender last month. “He asked me if I’d be open to playing defense [this fall],” Gallo says. “I then decided to have a little fun with him. I told him, ‘How am I going to break the school record for goals in a season if you want me to play defense?’ I was joking. I’m willing to play anywhere. What I’m realizing is how much playing two positions could pay off. It might help me [during the college recruitment process]. I’m having a blast playing soccer, playing anywhere on the field. I’m always looking to play in pickup games anytime I can this summer. Soccer … it’s my main focus.” Jack Cornelo played varsity soccer at New Trier in 2013. One of his biggest fans back then was a sophomore, a Races on the Green legend. Michael Gallo, rookie varsity member, paid attention to the older players. He learned from AIR MICHAEL: New Trier High School senior-to-be Michael Gallo helped the U17 Chicago Magic capture a US Youth Soccer national title last the older players. Cornelo, now a month. He will serve as a co-captain for the Trevians this fall. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER sophomore center-midfielder at DePauw University in Greenmatches in six days in Oklahoma. in on his speed. He uses it in soccer. times for the baseball team last “He’s got great energy,”Trevians castle, Indiana, was an attacking It allowed only one goal all week He uses it as a courtesy runner for spring,” the brother adds. “People soccer coach Wes Molyneaux says midfielder in ’13. He had eye— the Impact Red’s goal, in the New Trier’s varsity baseball team. probably thought he was upset of Michael Gallo. “He certainly catching speed, 4.4 speed in the first half of the final; the teams had He displays it every Fourth of July, about his baseball role, about being loves the game, and you’re prob- 40-yard dash. The fast senior and tied 0-0 in pool play on July 22. when the Village of Winnetka asked to only run. But he loved ably not going to find a more the fast sophomore became fast Gallo tallied the fifth goal of his holds its Races on the Green. Gallo that role, loved running around the competitive player than Michael. friends. The fast senior also became club’s 5-0 rout of Sunrise Elite dashed 75 yards against boys in base paths for the team. He never He goes so hard, as hard as he can, a mentor. 97/98 (Florida) in a pool-play the 13-18 age group last month. complained about it.” offensively and defensively. He “He guided me, gave me advice,” opener on July 21. Gallo won. Gallo won his first The Gallo brothers combined puts pressure on backs, creates Gallo says. “We still text each other “It was fantastic how we came Fourth of July race when he was for 12 goals and six assists for a turnovers. Smart … he’s a smart all the time. The thing he told me together as a team, how we didn’t three years old, overwhelming tots Class 3A sectional championship player. He loves soccer, loves to that I’ll never forget was, ‘Make play as individuals,” Gallo says. from start to finish in a 30-yard soccer team (21-4-2) last fall, the win, loves everything about high the most of your high school soccer “We trained hard in the month sprint. Most of the tots tottered; elder finishing with eight goals and school soccer. career, because it’ll be over before “You give Michael a lot of re- you know it.’ between regionals and nationals. li’l Gallo galloped. four assists. Matt’s first goal of his We had guys coming from all over “He’s not just fast; Michael varsity career came off an assist sponsibilities, as a player and as a “We’re going to surprise people the place to practice with us [in always runs hard, always plays from Michael. Matt connected leader,” he adds, “and he’ll come this year,” he adds. “We lost 16 Lincolnshire]. One of my team- hard, every minute he plays,” with Michael to notch the first through for the team.” seniors [to graduation], and you mates took a train from a south Gallo’s younger brother, NTHS assist of his varsity career. Michael Chicago Magic coaches, con- know people will think, That’s too suburb of Chicago. Guys made junior-to-be Matt Gallo (a varsity Gallo netted two goals in a match cerned about the Magic falling many. We’ll be scrappier than we some serious commitments soccer forward last fall), says. “His twice. In one of the matches he behind early in matches, shifted were last year. Our team will be work ethic on the soccer field … also dished two assists. The final Gallo from forward to right back full of athletes who are very good throughout the summer.” Any story about Michael Gallo, it’s eye-catching. score in that one, a playoff contest, in between regional matches in soccer players. We’ll find ways to “He probably batted only four “The Michael Gallo Match”: 4-0. June. Gallo wasn’t exactly thrilled win.” resident of Winnetka, has to zero
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Award winning, thoroughly dedicated Brief — Mr. Media — left quite an im‘print’ on Highland Park High School BY BILL MCLEAN, SPORTS@NORTHSHOREWEEKEND.COM
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he unusual chant from the student fans in bleachers could be heard at Highland Park High School football games, home and away, last fall: “Sam Brief, sports reporter! Sam Brief, sports reporter! Sam Brief … ”The loud shouts always made Brief, suddenly embarrassed and suddenly flattered, smile and look down — the aw-shucks pose. Brief, a senior then, was a fixture on the sidelines, the Brief in “The HP Sports Brief,” his weekly sports broadcast. Game Night was Brief ’s favorite night of the week during the football season. It meant he would get to keep stats, direct his cameramen, tweet a highlight or an observation at least once per minute, interview players and coaches after the game and later edit the footage. He also covered HPHS basketball and baseball games. The sports editor of a local newspaper trusted Brief to suppress the avid HPHS sports fan in him and turn in down-themiddle game stories. Brief did that. Weekly. People watched and heard Brief on HPTV. People read Brief ’s words. Those student fans in bleachers got it right: “Sam Brief ” is a synonym for “sports reporter.” “People couldn’t believe how professional Sam was and how dedicated he was,” Sam Nevers (HPHS, ’15), a former Giants varsity football and baseball player, says. “He amazed people. Students and teachers and coaches respected him. Everybody respected him. He put more time into media stuff at the school, into his many media duties, than the time most athletes put into their sports.” One of three national finalists for Best Student Broadcaster in 2014-15, Brief traveled to Atlanta last month for the National Federation of State High School Associations Network awards banquet. Brief made a brief, heartfelt speech, as Best Student Broadcaster in the country. He also won a student Emmy for Best Sports Show. Brief and his good friend, Ryan Kane, co-produced “One Yard,” a moving five-minute documentary about a pair of Highland
reporter, wasn’t carving his niche at HPHS; he was excavating it, backhoe not needed. “Sam was the backbone of his show, doing a lot of the editing,” Kane says. “He’s driven. He started a lot of things. Our fantasy football league, it’s 10 years old now. Everybody knew Sam Brief at school. He’s a hard-working guy, funny, an all-around good guy. There’s nothing wrong with him. Well, maybe one thing: he works too much. There’s nobody like Sam.” Brief established a cordial, professional relationship with Hal Chiodo, the Giants’ varsity football coach from 2009-14. Last fall, on most Wednesday mornings during the football season, the two met in the school’s wrestling room to catch up, to talk football, to watch film of an upcoming opponent. Chiodo once pointed out to Brief what an opposing quarterback did unwittingly while lining up in a shotgun formation. The QB would always pass when his feet were together, and he would always run when his feet were apart. “Knowing that,” Brief says, “helped me during the game BRIEF ENCOUNTER: Sam Brief (left) chats with ex-Highland Park High School head football coach Hal Chiodo during an interview because I’d tell my cameraman to session last fall. Brief was named 2014-15 Best Student Broadcaster in the nation by NFHS Network. SUBMITTED PHOTO zoom out as soon as I noticed a pass play was coming.” Park-Glenbrook North football after the Boston Marathon place. Mike Tirico is amazing. at the school hadn’t aired in a few On Dec. 15, some six weeks games, separated by 364 days, and bombing [in 2013]; that entire He’s not just good at play-by-play; years. Vogelsang gave Brief the after the end of the 2014 football the resolve of the entire HPHS city grew stronger, and the Red he also tells stories when he works. green light, and Brief went to season, Brief was at home, hoping football program. HP’s Giants lost Sox won the World Series later I love telling stories. I love to write, work immediately on what would to find out if he had been ac21-17 to North’s visiting Spartans that year. It was a thrill for me, on too. [ESPN’s] Michael Wilbon, turn out to be his first “HPHS cepted, as an early decision canin 2013, the final play, a Highland a smaller scale, after that football another favorite of mine, is an Sports Minute.” Mention it to didate, into the Medill School of Park run, ending agonizingly at win at Glenbrook North, being outstanding broadcaster and Brief. Watch Brief cringe. Journalism at Northwestern Glenbrook’s 1-yard line. Both on the field, covering the game writer. “Awful … it was awful, terrible,” University. He had been anxious teams had entered the game 4-0 and seeing our fans rush the field “It’s not going to be easy, Brief recalls. “I was awful. I was for a few days, since he expected in the Central Suburban League to celebrate with the players. getting a job as an NBA or an sitting at a desk, with my arms to learn of the decision on Dec. “It was also a challenge for me. NFL play-by-play voice,” he adds. resting on the desk, and all I did 12, a Friday. It was late afternoon, North. HP edged host Glenbrook North 34-33 the next year, captur- I had to hide my excitement that “Sports broadcasting is such a was read a list of final scores. I had on a Monday, when … Let’s let Sam Brief, storyteller, ing the CSL North title and night. I had to work. I had to competitive industry; so many no attitude, no energy. Awful.” finishing with a 9-0 mark in the interview players and coaches people want to do it. That’s not Brief started to find his rhythm take it from there. regular season. “One Yard” won a from both teams.” going to stop me. I might hear ‘no’ as a broadcast journalist in his “It was 5:29 p.m.,” he recalls, Chicagoland Television Educators His dream job is to do what a million times. That’s OK; junior year, realizing presentation smiling. “I was in the kitchen, with Council for Best Documentary. Mike Tirico does for ESPN, or at Pioneer Press [the local paper] is much more appealing to an my mom [Rita] and dad [David] “I love sports. I have always least some of what Tirico does. told me ‘no’ seven times before I audience than the recitation of and our dog, Murray, a standard loved sports,” says Brief, who tried Tirico, polished and versatile, can received my first assignment to results. He interviewed one, two, poodle. When I found out I had out for the basketball team as a call a Monday Night Football cover a game.” sometimes five players after games been accepted, I jumped up and freshman but not did not make game one night and a college Brief was a sophomore when and aired their words for his down. I looked at my mom and it. “Sports bring people together. basketball game the next. He has he emailed Tom Vogelsang, a shows. He used inflection. dad, and they were jumping up Look at what the Blackhawks did described action at NBA games teacher in the multimedia depart- Coaches shared their reaction, to and down. Murray then started for their fans when they won those and major tennis and golf events. ment at HPHS, and inquired wins and to losses, with Brief, an barking and jumping, doing what “He’s all over the place,” Brief about putting together a sports affable, approachable and genu- a typical dog likes to do when three Stanley Cups [in six years]. Look at what happened in Boston says. “I want to be all over the show at the school. A sports show inely curious teen. Brief, the sports people nearby are excited.”
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ndrew Huber loves to play golf. Tom Watson plays golf for a living. One is a senior-to-be at New Trier High School, the other a senior citizen on the Champions Tour. Watson, 65, is a five-time British Open champion. Huber, five years ago, was enjoying the final month of his summer before becoming an eighth-grader. When Huber hits an errant shot on a golf course, his reaction mirrors the Tom Watson reaction to a similar shot. “Tom Watson smiles after bad shots,” Huber says. “You see people, all the time, get frustrated after a bad shot, get mad. What’s the point of that? If you hit a bad shot, accept it and try to hit a better shot on your next shot. Tom Watson thinks that way. I like to think that way. “I’ve always liked watching him play. I love Watson’s mentality on the course.” Huber was the last young man standing — and smiling — at the 35th Chick Evans Junior Amateur Championship at Itasca Country Club on July 24. The act of smiling, though, had nothing to do with his response to a slice or to a hook or to an ugly iron shot that landed in a big cat box. Huber defeated Kyle Slattery, of Rockford, 1-up in the final round of match play to cap his splendid run at the five-day tournament. He deserved to sport the smile of a satisfied victor. Huber, the No. 2 seed after stroke-play rounds of 70 and 68, eliminated five match-play opponents in succession to capture the title at the par-72 course. “I watched Andrew play the final round,” Matt Murlick, another NTHS senior-to-be and last year’s Chick Evans Junior Amateur champ, says. “He played lights out. It’s a pretty skinny course, and he did a great job of hitting the middle of the fairways. He’s always been good at hitting really straight. “It’s a nerve-racking tournament,” he adds, “but Andrew handled it well.” Huber came up big on the FOLLOW 'DREW: New Trier High School’s Andrew Huber, seen here in action last fall, won the Chick par-4 14th hole and the par-5 Evans Junior Am earlier this summer. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
16th hole against Slattery. Slattery, up by a stroke after 13 holes, had a birdie putt from three feet at the 14th. Huber’s birdie putt rested 20 feet from the hole. Slattery made his. “He probably thought he had it in the bag after that putt,” Huber recalls. “Had I missed my putt, he would have gone up by two shots with four to go.” Huber didn’t miss his putt. “Big momentum shift for me,” Huber says. Huber eagled the 16th, draining an uphill 10-foot putt after striking a gorgeous 4-iron shot. Slattery settled for par, and Huber maintained his one-shot advantage after each of the final two holes. It’s good to be Trevians boys golf coach Pete Drevline these days. He gets to watch the last two Chick Evans Junior Amateur champions play for his varsity team this fall. Both played for the Class 3A state runner-up a year ago. Huber shot 76-74 at state, the Trevians’ low score, and tied for sixth place among the individual qualifiers at the par-72 Den at Fox Creek Golf Course in Bloomington. “Andrew is one of the most happy-go-lucky golfers I’ve ever been around,” Drevline says. “He never gets too high on a golf course, never gets too low. His positive outlook is contagious, and that demeanor makes him a great teammate. He also has enthusiasm for the game, passion for the game. He’s sneaky long, and he’s pinpoint accurate when he’s playing well. “Not too many teens pick a senior tour golfer like Watson [to emulate],” the coach adds. “That Andrew has … that doesn’t surprise me. Tom Watson shrugs his shoulders when things aren’t going well for him in a round. Andrew is the same way.” Huber played all kinds of sports before turning 14. When he turned 14, golf, only golf, interested him. Since then he has devoted big chunks of his free time to practicing golf, to playing golf, to talking golf. His most significant summer win, before last month’s victory at Itasca CC,
was last summer at an Illinois Junior Golf Association tournament at Mill Creek Golf Club in Geneva, where he shot 69-6775, two shots clear of the runnerup. Huber, a 5-foot-11, 145pounder, isn’t a 24/7 golfer, finding time in his summers to swim in Lake Michigan and boat on the same body of water. A winter without hitting the slopes at Steamboat Resort in Colorado, with his family, would be a double-bogey-bad winter. Andrew was two years old when he visited the resort for the first time. Want to talk Chicago Bulls? Seek Andrew Huber. Listen to Andrew Huber. “He wears Michael Jordan golf shoes. He loves those shoes, wore them at the Chick Evans,” Murlick says. “He’s got a thing for shoes, for sneakers. Andrew is a sneakerhead.” Look for Huber to focus on NTHS feats, not feet, as a Trevian this fall. Drevline’s boys of fall finished 21 strokes behind state champion Hinsdale Central High School last year. That’s not Secretariat-wins-by-31-lengthsat-Belmont dominant, but it’s close to what the horse did to win the third leg of his Triple Crown in 1973. New Trier’s 2014 varsity lineup boasted six steady and talented golfers, each capable of achieving medalist honors at any tournament, at any dual meet. Each pushed the other five. All six appreciated the in-house pushes. “I was just a piece of the puzzle,” Huber insists. “It didn’t matter to any us who shot the best round when we competed as a team. We were all about team effort. It wasn’t, ‘Oh, what did you shoot today?’ The big question, the most important question at every meet, was, ‘How did New Trier do as a team?’ Our team played well at state last year. Hinsdale Central, unfortunately, played extremely well. “I love the team aspect of high school golf and how competitive it is. I’m looking forward to being one of the leaders on a team of strong players. I’m excited about this season. We all are.”
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t is Matt Kaskey’s favorite photograph of his former New Trier High School football teammate and classmate, defensive end/tight end Andrew Hauser. In it, Hauser, a 2015 NTHS graduate and Wilmette resident, is helmetless, his head of hair a late-game, sweatsoaked mess. The knee of a running back, running a double reverse, had violently separated Hauser from his hard hat. Hauser is in mid-roar behind the line of scrimmage, displaying a mixture of irritation and excitement and Trevians pride. The huge red-zone stop, in front of a packed New Trier stadium in Northfield, had essentially sealed NT’s 44-30 defeat of Evanston Township High School in a regular-season finale on Oct. 24. “That picture,” Kaskey says, “shows Andrew’s passion for the team and for the sport. I love that picture. It’s an awesome picture.” The memorable tackle was one of Hauser’s team-high 21 tackles for loss in a 10-2 season, which ended with a Class 8A state quarterfinal loss to eventual state champion Stevenson High School. Twenty-one tackles for loss … or nearly two tackles for loss per game. A tackle in the backfield demoralizes an offense, jacks up teammates, sometimes changes games. All that negative yardage added up to positive things for the 6-foot-4, 240pound Hauser: Central Suburban League South Co-Defensive Player of the Year honors (with Maine South High School safety Justin Fahey), as well as all-state honorable mention status. “Andrew runs like an outside linebacker, even like a wide receiver,” Trevians coach Brian Doll says. “And he has that ability to play at a high tempo and at a high level, at all times. He made guys around him better players last year. To do what he did, play those two positions as well as he did … that takes a special athlete.” Football coaches at Brown University get to deploy the special athlete on fields for the
can do … . Hauser and Sernus. Sernus and Hauser. Sernus was a redshirt defensive tackle at the University of Dayton last fall. One of Sernus’ workout partners this summer is Hauser. Hauser and Dartmouth College-bound Kaskey, an offensive lineman, also lift together. Hauser also follows the Brown University football program’s recommended conditioning regimen for incoming freshmen, and he works regularly with a speed and agility trainer. “Andrew plays football at another level,” Kaskey says. “He’s big, fast and athletic, with a great attitude. It’s like he’s the perfect football player. His tremendous athletic ability and size, and his technique — all of that helps. All of that will help him when he plays college football.” The intense, focused, dominant nature of Hauser disappears after football games, almost instantly. When somebody asks him about one of his sacks or one of his tackles for loss, the game changer changes the subject, preferring to discuss how well his team played or how well his coaches prepared the team. The hard hitter on the field, making all those loud tackles, is a humble, modest teen off the field. “He has an understanding that football is not an individual sport, CROWD PLEASER: Defensive end Andrew Hauser (No. 82) celebrates a playoff win with teammates last fall. He was named cothat he is a component of a team,” Defensive Player of the Year in the CSL South. PHOTOGRAPHY BY TING SHEN Doll says. “He’s a solid teammate “He liked the freedom of the who takes football seriously and next four autumns. Hauser, last guys, they’re down-to-earth, like taken of us that day, with our position,” Andrew says. fall, was interested in extending I am.” dads.” invests everything he has into the his football life at Yale until Yale’s Hauser was into Star Wars and Hauser’s dad, John, loved footAndrew Hauser made the sport. And he’s a true gentleman, interest in Hauser cooled; the Legos, not football, when he was ball and yearned to play youth and NTHS varsity football team in respectful to his family, his Bulldogs had received commit- a down-to-earth fourth-grader. high school football on the North his junior year. He played mostly coaches, his teammates. ments from high-priority defen- Then he started hanging out, more Shore. But John Hauser’s dad defensive end, saw a little time at “Brown’s coaches,” he adds, “are sive end targets. A Brown football and more, with his cousin, George made sure his son would not outside linebacker and lined up, extremely excited about having coach called Hauser in December. Hauser, a year older and a football become one of his patients. John occasionally, as a tight end in goal- Andrew.” Brown staffers visited Hauser at enthusiast. Wilmette’s house foot- Hauser’s dad was an orthopedic line packages. Hauser and Kaskey are already New Trier in late December. ball league allowed fourth- and surgeon. “A big learning year for me,” amped for a certain Ivy League Andrew Hauser’s dad did play Hauser says. “I just did my job, football game on Nov. 14, to be Hauser, near the middle of his fifth-graders to play with and organized football, but not until tried to be a ‘glue guy.’ I had a lot held at Brown Field in Providence, varsity basketball season, then against each other. “I remember George and I put he and couple of his buddies opted of great players around me on Rhode Island, on Military Apreceived some super football news. “All of sudden, I get this offer on our helmets and pads and got to go out for a football team in defense.” preciation Day. It’ll be Brown’s in a conference room at the together in George’s back yard,” another state. John Hauser donned One of them was Michael Bears vs. Dartmouth’s Big Green, school,” Hauser recalls. “I thought Hauser says. “I’m pretty sure it was helmet and pads at Division III Sernus (NTHS, ’14), another a certain 2015 NTHS graduate about the offer for two days. I’m the Fourth of July. All we did in DePauw University in Green- defensive lineman, another team on one side of the ball, a certain exited about going there. Brown the back yard that day was run castle, Indiana. The future father leader in tackles for loss and the 2015 NTHS graduate on the has this cool business entrepre- into each other, over and over. It of a standout defensive end at New 2013 CSL South Defensive Player other side. Can you picture that? neurship program, and the football was a great time. A picture was Trier played … defensive end. of the Year. Anything you can do, I
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USATF Junior Olympics: Emma Milburn, who will be a sophomore at Lake Forest High School, just missed winning a national title on Aug. 2. Competing for the Waukegan Invaders, Milburn claimed runner-up honors in the 1500 meters in the 15-16 age division at the USATF Junior Olympics in Jacksonville, Florida. She was clocked in 4:39.44. Kaylah Quarshie of Hall’s Express won the race in 4:38.25. Milburn also took second in the 1500 (10:37.51) and ninth in the 800 (2:19.06). Katie Condon, who will be a senior at LFHS, came home with a bronze medal in the 17-18 age division for the Invaders. Her time in the 1500 meters was 4:51.92. Lake Forest also was represented by Etienne Najman (Invaders) and Haley Click (unattached). In the 15-16 division, Najman finished eighth in the 3000 meters (9:26.55). In the 17-18 division, Click placed 11th in the 2000 steeplechase (8:14.59). The top showing by a Waukegan Invader was turned in by Beach Park’s Thomas Mosley (15-16 division). He took first in the 800 (1:55.28). He also placed second in the 1600 (4:06.65). Teammate Mariah Palmer (8 and under) took first in the 1500 and sixth in the 800, while Caleb Levy placed fourth in the 1500 and fifth in 800.
IJGA Players Challenge #3: Lake Bluff’s Connor Polender shot a 70 in round one and a 72 in round two to take top honors (142) in the Illinois Junior Golf Association’s Players Challenge on July 30-31 at Ravisloe Country Club. He edged Willow Springs’ Patrick Akaniroj by one stroke. Mac McClear of Hinsdale was three strokes back. Polender, who will be sophomore at Lake Forest High School, also is highly regarded tennis player. Tennis Recruiting Network ranks him as a three-star recruit. He’s rated No. 11 in Illinois and No. 31 in the Great Lakes. He played varsity tennis for the Scouts in the spring and advanced to the state tournament in singles (2-2 record). He placed second in the sectional (defaulting to his brother, Brice, in the final). On the girls’ side, Glenview’s Hanna Tanaka (class of 2019) finished in a tie for seventh place with Wheaton’s Priya Desai. She finished with a 164 (83-81). Earlier this summer, Wilmette’s Michael Tanaka (class of 2018), Highland Park’s Ari Herzog (class of 2017) and Northbrook’s Charlie Van Cleave (class of 2017) were top-7 finishers at the Players Challenge #2 at Cog Hill on June 29-30. Tanaka shot a 146 (74-72) to place third. Herzog carded a 149 (74-75) to come in fifth. And Van Cleave shot a 151 to finish in a tie for seventh. In girls’ action, Northbrook’s Amy Hong was the medalist with a 152 (76-76), while Winnetka’s Madison Banas finished third (83-79—159). And, on June 11-12, in the Players Challenge #1 at Pheasant Run Resort, Winnetka’s Chip Savarie (7075—145) and Lake Forest’s Michael Banas (74-72—146) went 1-2. CDGA Senior Amateur: Lake Forest's Craig Sopko
CHIP SHOTS | GOLF New Trier: Louise McCulloch, who will be a senior at New Trier High School this fall, has made a verbal commitment to Northwestern University. Last fall, she finished in a tie for 18th at the IHSA meet after claiming top honors in the Central Suburban League championship.
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advanced to the final before losing to Taylorville's Dave Ryan (3 and 2) in this Chicago District Golf Association Senior Amateur Championship at Merit Club in Libertyville on July 30. Ryan, who entered the tourney as the reigning champ, is a five-time CDGA Senior Player of the Year. He now has won this event three times. Sopko played exceedingly well. Seeded No. 2, he topped three-time champion Tom Miller (1 up) in the quarterfinals, and he took care of Steven Jacobs in the semifinals (3 and 2). MAJGT Championship at Illinois State: Winnetka’s Michael Adler (class of 2017) turned in a strong showing at this Mid-American Junior Golf Tour event on July 27-30 at Weibring Golf Club. Adler shot 72-74-72 (218) to finish in fourth place. El Paso’s Michael Mounce took medalist honors with a 207. Highland Park’s Noah Fishbein (class of 2016) shot a 69 on the first round and ended up in a tie for 11th place (225). Northbrook’s Daniel Cole (class of 2016) finished in a tie for 13th place (227). On the girls’ side, Glenbrook North’s Amy Hong (class of 2016) shot 80-81-80 to share third place with Wheaton’s Annalee Dannegger. Hinsdale’s Roshannah Gaur took first with a three-round score of 226.
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Glenbrook North: Michael Oh is heading to Omaha. Over the weekend, the star right-hander, who will be a senior at Glenbrook North High School, verbally committed to play baseball at Creighton University in Nebraska. Creighton, which competes in the Big East conference, is the official host of the College World Series. The NCAA Division I championship is played at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha. The 6-foot-4, 245-pound Oh has been opening eyes for some time. In the spring, he was the ace of the GBN staff and helped the Spartans to a 29-7 overall record and first-place finish in the Central Suburban League North. He went 8-2 with a 1.72 ERA. In 52 2/3 innings, he allowed only 43 hits and 16 walks with 69 Ks. The all-conference selection opened the summer with a stellar showing in the Chicagoland Classic Showcase at the University of Illinois-Chicago. “He’s getting a lot of Division I buzz,” said a Division III coach, who attended the showcase. Oh, who throws 85 miles per hour and delivers a variety of breaking pitches, plays his club baseball with Top Tier. He currently is ranked No. 61 in the class of 2016 by Prep Baseball Report (PBR). At Creighton, he will team up with Loyola Academy grad Danny Woodrow. The speedy outfielder just completed his sophomore year by hitting .281 and leading the Bluejays in runs (42) and stolen bases (21). Creighton ended up 32-19 this past spring. It made its only College World Series appearance in 1991.
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om Jednorowicz is not a muscle-bound, roided-out, knuckle-dragging lummox. He is not slow witted (he boasts an engineering degree), and he doesn’t fit armchair curmudgeon Archie Bunker’s definition on “All in the Family” of someone “dead from the neck up.” Despite all that, he is a Meathead. Jednorowicz’s definitions for the term, which cover three different walls of his fast food chain of restaurants, are markedly different. “An all-natural burger,” begins the first, “made to order right here in our kitchen from 100% Certified Angus Beef, without fillers, additives or scraps.” Definitions also describe his customers and employees: “A dedicated, hard-working individual who is driven to excellence and strives to be better at everything they do.” The website says they’re hiring “ambitious meatheads.” Unlike the Happy Meal, this is not doublespeak. This is an allnatural, inviting alternative to the burger chains that have made us all slaves (myself included) to poor quality, fast food restaurants. Jednorowicz sits across from me at his Northbrook location, inside the Willow Festival Shop-
ping Center. Between us lies martial arts lessons with a world a smorgasbord of Meatchampion fighter. heads burgers and fries, But above all, he’s passionchicken tenders and hotdogs. ate about crafting an enjoyOut of the veritable cornuable experience for the whole copia before us, Jednorowfamily —similar to what icz’ chief concern is with the Friendly’s used to be long ago — at each restaurant. feta fries, which are a limitedtime menu item this summer. To that end, he has personCustomer feedback was in: ally delivered gratis takeout the feta fries were a little to make up for bad Yelp soggy. (This, due to the fact that reviews. He takes customer they coat them with a lemon olive feedback seriously, and he acts on oil, for starters.) But also because it. “our fries were potatoes this Meatheads first started with morning,” explains Jednorowicz. its Bloomington location in 2007. “The hard thing about fresh-cut “I was probably about five fries is, with no preservatives, years late on that,” admits Jedthey have a very limited shelf norowicz about startlife.” He thinks for a ing his own busimoment, before adding, ness. “I was staring “that ’s what we’re 40 in the eye at about: clean food.” the time.” He The good-looking had young kids 48-year-old restauraat home. But teur — with a salt and years of being pepper goatee and a in the industry slicked back mane of gave him an idea for a hair — isn’t exactly the product he befirst person you’d expect to own a chain lieved in. of 16 high-end fastJednorowicz casual restaurants in first came to Illinois: he looks halfway Chicago to work between corporate execufor Burger King out of graduate tive and Silicon Valley techie. He looks like he school at the Univerowns a motorcycle. (He sity of Connecticut. does.) He also meditates, After getting a taste of does yoga, and takes mixed Tom Jednorowicz | Illustration by Barry Blitt the real estate side of
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the business, he left, getting a job six months later with Boston Chicken. It was the mid-1990s, and they were looking to expand outside of New England. At the time, Boston Chicken was the darling of Wall Street. “It was just explosive growth,” says Jednorowicz. “It skyrocketed and then plummeted just as fast.” From there, Boston Chicken — what would eventually become Boston Market — spawned Einstein/Noah Bagels, and Jednorowicz was once again along for the ride and the lightning-fast expansion. This time, however, he was in the saddle: adding 400 more bagel stores in three years. But aggressive expansion comes with a price. Restaurants tend to lose their souls in the process. They forgo the special sauce that makes them different. He cites Potbelly as an example. In his stint as chief development officer, Jednorowicz made sure “every restaurant was unique.” They called it artifacting. “If it took eight weeks to build a Potbelly, on the seventh week it would look no different. But on the eighth week, a specialized team would come in to source out local artifacts or antiques from the area,” he says. “They’d customize the restaurant to the neighborhood.” Jednorowicz thinks they’ve drifted away from that.
He’s trying to be more methodical with Meatheads. He engages with the community in the form of Meathead of the Game awards, Burger Battles, and the Voracious Meatheads reading programs. Only a handful of the restaurants have drivethrus, because they don’t fit well with his business plan: butts in chairs. The construction will be finished on the next Meatheads in Lake Bluff this fall — No. 17 in eight years. Compared to the breakneck pace of the past, this seems snaillike. But Jednorowicz wants Meatheads to grow like the family-owned, highly celebrated In-N-Out Burger chain on the West Coast — without losing its soul. And what of the name? It brings to mind Five Guys and Smashburger-hungry men in the 18-30-year-old demographic. “That’s exactly who we don’t get,” says Jednorowicz. Instead, half their customers are women with young kids. So they softened the earlier logo from an uppercase snarl to a palatable lowercase design. But something that’s stayed the same? “Clean, simple, well-prepared, straightforward food,” says Jednorowicz. “That’s what we are. We’re not trying to be anything else.”
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