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or Northbrook native Alexander Rubinow, the road to becoming an Emmy-winning TV editor started with family movies on his father’s Super 8 camera. Fast-forward 25 years and the Glenbrook North alumnus has turned a childhood passion into a Hollywood career. But not without some detours and major paying of dues. “People sometimes ask how to get into the entertainment business,” shared Rubinow, who worked unpaid internships and night gigs to get his foot in the door. “From what I have learned, you have to be humble and you cannot be afraid to take a step backwards because it could lead to many steps forwards.” On Sept. 12, Rubinow took one very large step forward when he, alongside colleagues Alex Durham and Josh Earl, accepted a Creative Continued on PG 12
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Carle, a retired Marine who lives in Antioch, ought to know. he history of Glenview, Il- He lived in the village, which linois, centers upon farms, incorporated on June 17, 1899, groves and railroads—as for 20 years. He was a mailman well as books, electronics and a and the Glenview Post Office’s naval air base—and it began in main window clerk for 33 years. 1899 when the town incorpo- Carle’s father, who became Glenrated at the convergence of four view’s assistant postmaster, townships in northern Illinois. worked on the Milwaukee Rail“What’s unique about Glen- road’s mail service in Glenview view is the open space—the for 40 years. Carle’s sister still parks—and the grove, Wagner works at Glenbrook South High Farm, and the history center in School. Carle’s family history mirrors the middle of town,” says Glenview History Center’s curator Glenview’s past. “My dad grew up working on Wayne Carle (pronounced carly). “There’s also the Lutheran cem- a farm in Glenview,” he explained. etery, there’s Swainwood, where “So I used to cut peonies and take [newspaper columnist] Jack them to the wholesaler in Morton Mabley lived, and the North Grove—until the land was acShore Country Club. Four town- quired by developers.” Such is the ships meet here—Northfield, country’s, region’s and especially Maine, New Trier and Niles— Glenview’s history from agriculand I think that’s the only town ture to the Industrial Revolution. like that.” “The village [intervened] BY SCOTT HOLLERAN
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through eminent domain so the farm became part of Elm Park,” Carle said. “Now, it’s Johns Park.” Working at Glenview’s post office, Carle, a Civil War buff, said he’s always been interested in Glenview’s history. When a friend asked him to volunteer at the Glenview History Center, he said yes. The U.S. Civil War has Glenview links, too, Carle said. “The 39th Illinois Infantry Regiment was based in [what is now] Glenview,” he said, adding that Glenview forefathers were central to the Union Army unit.
Amasa Kennicott, cousin to Glenview pioneer Dr. John Kennicott, was the company’s captain. According to Carle, Glenview’s founding families include Dr. Kennicott and Joseph Adams, the last enlisted man out of Chicago’s Fort Dearborn. Others include the man who would become Glenview’s first president, Hugh Burnham, a nephew of Chicago architect Daniel Burnham and practitioner of the communal Swedenborgian religion. Frenchman Robert Dewes, whom Carle describes as a major Glenview landowner—Dewes owned prop-
erty north of Golf Road including land where the Glenview Club is located—was one Glenview’s many growers, traders and developers. The Kennicotts stand out as crucial to Glenview’s existence. “Dr. John Kennicott and his brothers were on the west side of town near Milwaukee Road and what’s now called the grove area,” Carle said. “John Kennicott was a medical doctor who was also interested in botany, shrubbery and trees, which he passed down Continued on PG 12
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