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SPORTSDeerfield High School’s Jack Lieb bounces back from injury P.24

SUNDAYBREAKFASTKeith Jacobs and his family have been fixtures on the homebuilding scene for decades. P.30

SOCIAL SCENENorth Suburban YMCA benefit enjoys strong turnout. P.16

A school year ends. Students pour out of school build-ings, feeling free. Summer

has not officially started, but in their minds it has. Hibernation begins for most backpacks.

The students get to sleep in the next day, their alarm clocks sounding right before lunchtime. They stretch. They seize the start of a half-day. They repeat the routine on Day Two of summer-time. The routine usually gets old

by Day Three.Summer camps to the rescue.

Though it may seem far off, given spring weather has barely touched the area, summer is closing in, and camp signups have started. For children, attending summer camps can be the highlight of the year.

“A summer camp, for many kids, is a chance to reinvent them-selves, to enjoy a clean slate after a school year,” says Glencoe resi-dent Dayna Hardin, owner and

director of Lake of the Woods Camp for girls and Greenwoods Camp for boys in Decatur, Mich., a fun-filled, education-packed escape for many children and teens from the North Shore (in fact, about 70 percent of campers come from the area).

“Kids who attend summer camps have two sets of best friends,” she adds. “Their best friends at school and their best

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BY BILL MCLEAN

Summer camps combine learning with funPLACE IN THE SUN

North Shore resident buys share of Cubs

Andrew Berlin ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY BLITT

Andrew Berlin of Glencoe is a new limited partner in the Chicago Cubs.

The 54-year-old — also a limited partner in the Chicago White Sox — owns the Cubs Class A affiliate in South Bend. He is one of six new limited partners in the franchise, which is in the middle of a $375-million renovation of Wrigley Field.

Since his purchase of the former Arizona Diamondbacks’ Class A affiliate in South Bend a few years ago, Berlin has introduced changes to lure families to 8,000-seat Four Winds Field. For $15, family members can enjoy Belly Buster Mondays, which includes a game ticket and as much food as one can swallow. Friday nights feature tele-vision giveaways.

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INDEX

[ NEWS ]9 Summer breeze

It barely feels like spring, but it’s time to figure out the best features among summer camps on the North Shore.

10 play on Deerfield High alumna Amy Rubenstein is one of the forces behind the new Windy City Playhouse.

[ LIFESTYLE & ARTS ]16 Social whirl

Take a look at some of the top parties attend-ed by North Shore residents recently.

18 north Shore foodie Check out a delicious recipe from a top chef on the North Shore.

19 out and about Discover the answers our roving photog-rapher received to our weekly question to North Shore residents

[ REAL ESTATE ]22 north Shore offeringS

Intriguing houses for sale in our towns are profiled.

22 open houSeS Find out — complete with map — what houses you can walk through for possible purchase on the North Shore on Sunday.

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WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA?

I remember spending way too much time as a boy watch-ing cartoons on Saturday

mornings. Three hours straight of Hong Kong Phooey, Inch High Private Eye and other scintillating fare was as much of a given as chomp-ing on Cap’n Crunch with Crunchberries in my pajamas.

Every major network — CBS, NBC and ABC — dedi-cated their Saturday morning broadcasts to these shows. To ensure their licenses weren’t revoked for turning children’s brains into cornmeal, they weaved in short educational an-imated features, such as “Con-junction Junction, what’s your function?” Halcyon days indeed.

I don’t recall one Saturday-morning feature that was off the charts more popular than any other. But today there seems to be one cartoon in particular that engages all youth. Lunchboxes bear its characters, as do toys and books. If a network could weep with joy, Nickelodeon would be teary-eyed every day

over its creation. This cartoon, launched in 1999, has gener-ated more than $8 billion a year in merchandising revenue for the MTV-owned property.

Who could engender such a frenzy? One hint: He lives in a pineapple under the sea — with a pet snail who meows.

Yes, “SpongeBob SquarePants” has pretty much taken over every house with children in the United States. He seems to be on television at all hours, and a movie about his exploits was recently released. If children could vote, this blue-eyed sponge would probably be elected President in 2016.

I’m getting old enough so not only is it hard to remem-ber why all of those cartoons appealed to me long ago, I’m also at the stage where I could rail against this one, using it as a prime example that our civilization is in a horrifying decline when so many children are enchanted by the antics of an ever-smiling sponge in a pineapple abode. Many parents

would applaud such a stance.But kids love crazy things

— the more creative, the better. And as far as cartoons go, SpongeBob is far more upbeat and suitable for children than, say, Beavis and Butt-Head. The porous organism even rang the closing bell at The New York Stock Exchange. I don’t recall a citadel of capital-ism ever inviting Hong Kong Phooey for such a stunt.

Sure, the theme song is inane enough to drive any adult crazy, and the characters can be annoying. But take it from one who survived a long diet of brainless car-toons: there’s life, and a good one at that, long after a kid’s affection for a cartoon such as SpongeBob has drowned..

Enjoy the weekend.

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Fort Sheridan debate: ‘What type of recreation do we want to promote?’

Glenview oks housing amendment

BY ADRIENNE FAWCETT

Parking, bathrooms and birds at the Fort Sheridan Forest Preserve were the main

issues discussed at the Lake County Forest Preserve District’s Planning & Restoration Committee meeting on March 3.

After reviewing two concept master plans for the preserve, the committee voted unanimously to go forward with a public meeting

to get input. The meeting will be held at an as-yet determined date in April.

Forest Preserve Director of Planning and Land Protection Randall L. Seebach presented the drawings, which identify po-tential land use for the preserve and were created by Forest Preserve District staff based on input from the committee and from people at public hearing in June 2012.

The main differences in Plan

A and Plan B are the size and lo-cations of parking lots and rest-rooms, but these are surface-level issues that reveal a deeper tension: Should the Forest Preserve District focus resourc-es on birding, native plants and natural restoration, which would require fewer parking spaces and less maintenance and funding, or should the district enhance parking, restrooms and accessi-bility so that more people can enjoy the many diverse features

of the 30,000-acre lakefront preserve?

“What type of recreation do we want to promote?” Seebach asked the committee. “How much foot traffic can the shore-line sustain before we are impact-ing the habitat and home to endangered and threatened species?”

He mentioned the state Forest Preserve Act, which gives the Forest Preserve the authority to acquire, protect and maintain

land and keep it in its natural state.

The master plan concepts focus on two of the primary features that community members said they wanted in the Fort Preserve at a public meeting in June 2012. In a survey, the District learned that the Top Four desired fea-tures were:

nature/birdwatchingcanoeing/kayakinghikingbeach access

(Actually, golf came in as the No. 1 item on the survey, but by that time the district had received approval to not proceed with a golf course from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers.)

Seebach said canoeing, kaya-king, and swimming didn’t make the concept master plans primar-ily because there is no supervi-sion at the beach and also because there are possibly unexploded U.S. Army ordinances still buried beneath the waves offshore.

BY SELENA FRAGASSI

Residents, landlords, lawyers and activists f illed the Village of Glenview cham-

bers on March 3 to provide opin-ions on a proposed amendment to the town’s Fair Housing Ordinance before the Board of Trustees approved the measure.

Vi l lage President Jim Patterson called for respect of speakers’ opinions in the forum, recognizing the flurry of com-ments that came forward at the first public hearing Feb. 17. While some quoted the U.S. Constitution’s mandate for prop-erty rights, others pointed to the message of Glenv iew ’s “Character Counts” motto, and Rev. Dale Susan Edmonds of Glenview Community Church asked for the board to remem-ber the words of The Pledge of Allegiance spoken moments earlier.

“Words matter. We don’t pledge liberty and justice for those who can afford it or for those who have never fallen on hard times,” she said. “We need to make a commitment as a com-munity to offer opportunities.”

Ultimately the board voted 5-1 to carry the motion, which aligns with Cook County’s human rights ordinance that stipulates that landlords cannot discriminate against qualified renters who present a housing choice voucher.

Although Cook County adopted the amendment in May 2013, Glenview was one of the last communities to comply,

citing the need for more re-search, which included work-shops with the Housing Authority of Cook County (HACC) and a survey of local landlords.

Deputy Village Manager Don Owen also presented new re-search that answered earlier questions of participant volume, rules for rent caps and the impact on student populations, one of the biggest sticking points for opponents.

The 169 vouchers in use in Glenview contribute 39 chil-dren, he said, or less than 1% of the town’s student body. Many participants are seniors, veter-ans and disabled individuals who would not present a challenge for schools. Owen also said the program is stagnant because the county has issued its total share of 12,800 vouchers and has closed the waiting list; any active movement of vacated and new residents in Glenview was cal-culated at a figure of 18 people in 2014. Owen also reiterated that landlords are able to set rents on a fair market scale (with allowed yearly increases of up to 5%) and can apply the same credit and background standards they would to any prospective renter.

Based on this further data, Owen deemed there would be “no measurable impacts by changing the ordinance.”

The changes are effective im-mediately although residents can still lobby to have a referendum on an upcoming ballot by petition.

friends at summer camps. If things get tough during the school year, they know they’ll always have their summer camp best friends.”

When you think of camps, you can no longer just think of archery and canoe sessions, fol-lowed by a snack, followed by a nature walk, followed by the delicate construction of s’mores around a campfire. Summer camps for artists and theater enthusiasts exist. Summer sports camps — for beginners and elite athletes — exist. From Aug. 10-14, the Northbrook Park District will stage a Zombie Survival Camp for children (ages 8-12).

Undead-themed camps are alive.

“The kids will defend the village,” says Frank Lamberti, Leisure Services Manager at Northbrook Park District. “It will be ‘under attack.’ The kids will be taught wilderness survival skills and how to build a shelter. They’ll learn how to cook over a camp-fire, how to purify water. And they’ll do all of that while having fun.”

Eric Davis believes an ideal time for a youngster to push the reset button is the summertime. Davis is the CEO of Global Citizenship Experience (GCE) Lab School in Chicago, though he also claims to be a “combina-tion janitor, principal, cheer-leader, disciplinarian and cur-riculum designer” at the school. GCE Lab School offers three-and-a-half week immersion summer courses for rising seventh- to 12th-grade students.

One of the courses is Stage Chemistry. Goodman Theatre in Chicago partners with GCE Lab School to provide the unique option.

“There’s more to theater than what happens on stage,” Davis says. “Blueprints are involved. Things go on below a stage, above a stage. Disciplines merge. It’s a part of our integrated curriculum. We also have a global peace course for kids interested in social justice, for kids who like to say, ‘I want to make the world a better place.’

“Kids,” he adds, “need to feel good again in the summer. They need to get away from the rat race that is the school year at times. There’s less pressure at summer camps. Kids get to enjoy learning and interact with new friends in an academic environ-ment.”

Kids get to enjoy the sound of their straight tee shots at The Golf Practice summer camps, to be held from June 8-August 7 in Highland Park and Evanston. Each camp’s student-to-teacher ratio is a desirable 4:1. Its instruc-tors believe a junior program has to be fast-paced and challenging. They also help their charges develop by teaching complex skills in bite-sized chunks.

For tennis buffs (ages 5-17) interested in reaching the next level, sign up for a Nike Tennis Camp. The camp (full days and half days) for netters of all abili-ties will be staged at Northwest-ern University, starting July 6.

The indoor stage at Piccolo Theatre, in Evanston, is the site for kids (ages 10-15) to learn through laughter. Each Piccolo

summer camp spotlights a comedy art: improvisation, sketch comedy, cartooning, physical comedy and comedy writing, among others.

“Summer camp specifically focuses on developing group dynamics, communication skills and building self-esteem through the medium of comedy,” says Joshua Allard, general manager of Piccolo Theatre Inc. “Each camp ends with a showcase during which the students perform or display their work.

“Summer camp,” he adds, “provides learning beyond the classroom. [Campers] put their knowledge to practice and share their experiences. Plus it’s great to get off the sofa for a while and be active away from anything digital.”

Northlight Theatre in Skokie and Piven Theatre in Evanston also host camps and intensives for budding actors and actresses.

For promising artists out there, the North Shore Art League — based on the second floor of the Community House in Win-netka — is a top-notch option. Campers produce a variety of artwork, from ink prints to draw-ings to sculptures. Trained pro-fessionals teach the campers (ages 5-11).

“After having so much fun after one week, some sign up for another,” says Linda Nelson, executive director of the North Shore Art League.

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago also draws North Shore kids (ages 4-9) to its summer camps.

Interested in a specialty summer camp along the North Shore? Check out the offerings at the Glenview Park District. A teen could learn all about the keys to hitting a biting paddle tennis serve one week and all about bytes in a tech camp the next.

“Whatever you’re interested in, we probably have a camp for it,” says Jena Johnson, manager of marketing and communica-tions at the Glenview Park Dis-trict. “We have creative camps. We have niche camps.

“Summer camps do so many things for kids, so many positive things,” she adds. “They help develop friendships and social skills. They’re meeting new people from across the commu-nity. Camp days are fun-filled days. We also like to make sure there’s an educational component built into many of the offerings.”

Dayna Hardin of Glencoe, a Northbrook native, is the director of two summer camps.


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NORTH SHORE ANNOUNCEMENTS

GLENVIEWThe Glenview Park District Board of Commissioners recently hired Michael McCarty as executive director to replace Chuck Balling, who is retiring.

The vote was unanimous to install McCarty, who has more than 20 years of experience in parks and recreation.

“It was important for us [the board] to find someone who can build upon the excellence our dis-trict has been able to achieve under Chuck Balling’s leadership,” says Board President Mary Jean Coulson.

GLENVIEW The Glenview Park District has announced that Regina Mundt will serve as group fitness coor-dinator at Park Center Health & Fitness (PCHF).

Mundt will be responsible for managing the PCHF Group Fitness program — including class schedule development, customer service initiatives, per-sonnel supervision, and admin-istrative tasks. She will continue to teach classes at PCHF; she originally joined as an instructor in 2007.

“We are excited that Regina has expanded her role with us,” says Kathleen McInnis, manager of health & fitness at the Park Center.

GLENVIEWThe Glenview Ice Center wel-comed more than 200 skaters, 18 synchronized skating teams, and three Theatre on Ice Groups to The Freeze Basic Skills Figure Skating Competition Feb. 20-21.

The Freeze is one of the largest amateur skating competitions on the North Shore. Competition categories included artistic, inter-pretive, jumps and spins, and syn-chronized skating.

The Glenview Ice Center was represented by the Glenview Blades synchronized skating teams, with the preliminary team winning gold, the Open Juvenile team taking silver, and the Beginner 2 team placing fourth.

DEERFIELDThe Deerfield Police Department warns residents to be on alert for a sophisticated phone scam.

Victims are told they owe money to the IRS, and it must be paid promptly through a pre-

loaded debit card or wire transfer. If the victim refuses to cooperate, he or she is then threatened with arrest, deportation, or suspension of a business or driver’s license. In many cases, the caller becomes hostile and insulting.

If you have mistakenly pro-vided confidential information to one of these callers, contact the Deerfield Police Department to make a report to protect your assets at 847-945-8636.

NORTHBROOKA Dunkin’ Donuts was approved to open in Northbrook at a recent village board meeting.

At 2775 Dundee Road, the Dunkin’ Donuts proposal was ac-cepted predicated on several condi-tions. The outdoor menu will be moved closer to the drive-thru window to allow more cars in the line, and the menu board speakers will only be turned on between 5:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Customers would have to drive to the window at all other times.

Initially, the restaurant will be open 24/7.

NORTHBROOKInternational journalist and Chicago author Lisa Barr, writer of the historical-fiction thriller “Fugitive Colors” (Arcade Publish-ing, New York), will be speaking at the Jewish Author Literary Series on Monday, April 20 at 7 p.m.

The event coincides with the release of the paperback version of “Fugitive Colors,” which is also available in hardcover and audio. The event will be held at Max and Benny’s Restau-rant, Brookside Shopping Plaza Shopping Center, 461 Waukegan Road in Northbrook.

The event is free, but to RSVP, contact Richard Reeder by email at [email protected] or by phone at 847-272-9490.

NORTHBROOKBeginning March 25, the North-brook Police Department will offer residents a behind-the-scenes look at local law enforcement.

The Citizen Police Academy, a 10-week course, meets once per week and focuses on topics such as patrol operations, criminal inves-tigations, crime scene processing, police canine operations, firearms and self defense training. Those

SHE BRINGS BUSINESS SMARTS, ARTISTIC FLAIR TO NEW PLAYHOUSEBY GREGG SHAPIRO

You could say that Deerfield High School alumna Amy Rubenstein

has been busy since graduating in 1996.

She later graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University’s Department of Theater. Amy then worked as an actress in a variety of markets, including Chicago, Los Angeles and Dayton, Ohio, eventually meriting membership in the Actors Equity Association. For the past dozen years, she has been making her name in real estate, with broker licenses in Illinois and California.

Combining her business and artistic acumen, Amy, along with her husband Milan and her brother Josh, is one of the forces behind the new Windy City Playhouse, opening on March 23 at 3014 W. Irving Park Road in Chicago.

I spoke with Amy about her career, her new endeavor and more.

Gregg Shapiro: Amy, you have worked in real estate for 12 years. What do you enjoy most about that line of work?

Amy Rubenstein: I love seeing the transformation of the properties. We often buy distressed assets that are fre-quently vacant and turn them into vibrant and beautiful buildings. The changes are so drastic and most of the prop-erties we buy are in desperate need of this attention. It’s won-derful to see neighborhoods change for the better.

GS: Is there a local real estate trend that you find to be especially exciting?

AR: We are currently re-developing a lot of buildings in Motor Row, just south of the South Loop by McCormick Place. The city has made a com-mitment to turning these few blocks into a new entertain-ment district. The streets there have been lacking retail and tourism, but a few major devel-opers have jumped in to change this. A new L stop has been added there, new hotels, the new DePaul Stadium and so much more. It’s very exciting to be a part of such a fast growing and important part of the city.

GS: Your realty specialty is restructuring building man-agement and revitalizing ac-quired buildings. Can you please explain what is involved in that line of work?

AR: Our company, Windy City RE, buys buildings in need of change whether due to mismanagement, structural de-terioration, high vacancies or just a face lift. We then try to find the highest and best use for these properties and follow through with these changes. Sometimes that is as simple as cleaning up the building from the inside to the outside with new roofs, porches, bathrooms, kitchens, etc. — and sometimes it is a little more complicated.

We love adaptive reuse projects, which is was what Windy City Playhouse was. This means we take a property that was formerly used for one purpose and change it to some-thing else. As an example, when we purchased 3014 W. Irving Park it was a previous catering company with apart-ments above it. It was vacant and in terrible condition, a real eyesore for the neighborhood and literally falling apart. We took the existing structure, gutted the entire building, fixed the foundation, added an extra 15 feet of height in the back of the building, and essential-ly turned it into a brand new building.

We love adaptive reuse for so many reasons; it takes the best of an old building and re-stores it to life; it helps the neighborhood keep its roots while staying modern and keeping up with the vitality of a growing city, and it is gener-ally environmentally friendly because we reuse as much building material as possible. The back of our new bar is ac-tually made out of the old roof joists from the building!

GS: Was theater a part of your upbringing, and did your family regular attend the theater?

AR: My parents have always been arts lovers in general. They do see a lot of theater and did take me as a child, but my love of theater started long before I started going to the theater. In fact, I don’t remember my life without theater. I was in acting classes from when I was about six and

never stopped. Every time my parents

would take me to the theater it was a bittersweet experience. I had such a burning desire to be on the stage that I would liter-ally get stomachaches from just watching. All I could think about was how to get up there myself to take the audiences on a journey and allow them to step into someone else’s life for a couple of hours. It was pure magic.

GS: Do you remember the first theatrical production that you saw?

AR: I think it was “Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day.” My parents threw me a birthday party at that show. It was probably at Apple Tree Theater (in Highland Park). I don’t remember. I’ll have to ask my mom [laughs].

GS: As a student at Deerfield High School, you performed in theater produc-tions. What are some of your fondest memories of that experience?

AR: I had wonderful mentors there; teachers who truly believed in me. David Hirsch was my first theater teacher there. He headed the department when I was a fresh-man and cast me in my first show there as soon as I arrived. Then Carl Menninger took over the department and has been a major influence in my life ever

since. He is actually an artistic associate with Windy City Playhouse and is directing a show in our second season! He has always encouraged me to make my career in theater. Carl played a crucial role in the opening of this theater.

GS: What did you like best about growing up in Deerfield?

AR: I had a blessed child-hood with two supportive parents and a fabulous educa-tion, both of which I am eter-nally grateful for.

GS: What are the chal-lenges and rewards of being the artistic director of a new theater company such as Windy City Playhouse?

AR: There are so many of both [laughs]! The startup of this theater has been a huge challenge with so many sleep-less nights. Most nights I go to bed on the verge of an anxiety attack, wondering how I’ll ever make it to the finish line, and then I wake up ready to con-tinue on my quest. It’s insane. There are just so many moving parts from choosing the plays and hiring the artistic team, to the construction and buying the chairs and choosing the toilets [laughs]! It’s never ending.

But the most rewarding part is being lucky enough to work with so many talented people . The theater

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The Citizen Police Academy class is open to all Northbrook residents or business owners ages 21 and up. Class size is limited to 25 persons. To reserve a spot, contact the Community Relations Supervisor at 847-664-4427.

DEERFIELDThe Deerfield Bannockburn Riv-erwoods Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Foundation is offering three college scholarships to grad-uating high school seniors residing in the 60015 zip code.

A community service scholar-ship in the amount of $1,000 and two $5,000 science scholarships will be awarded in April. The ap-plication deadline is March 27.

Requirements for application include, but are not limited to, residence in the 60015 zip code and high school graduation in the 2014/2015 school year.

For more information on ap-plying for this scholarship or to make a donation, please call the DBR Chamber of Commerce at 847-945-4660.

DEERFIELDOn March 31, the Deerfield Public Library invites residents to a dem-onstration at the Whole Foods Market on 760 Waukegan Road.

The author of “Driving Mr. Albert,” Michael Paterniti, will be recounting his visit to the medieval Castilian village of Guzman as part of a decade-long effort to taste the world’s finest cheese, an encounter that involved him in long-held regional secrets and the story of a heartbroken cheese maker.

A discussion of “The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese” will be followed

by a cheese demonstration. Those interested can register in advance by contacting the Deerfield Public Library at 847-580-8933 or by emailing [email protected].

GLENVIEWTo raise awareness for the arts in the community, the Glenview Art League is awarding a $1,000 schol-arship to a graduating senior pur-suing an art career.

The high school senior must be a resident of Glenview, be graduat-ing in 2015, and have a college acceptance letter in by April 15.

The downloadable application must be submitted to the address on the application by March 30 and be accompanied by a letter of rec-ommendation from a teacher. In-terested students can access the application by going to glenview-artleagure.org.

For more information, please call 847-724-4007 or email [email protected].

BY JAKE JARVI

When Alec Lopata was in the fifth grade, one of his

close friends was diagnosed with leukemia.

“At the time, I hadn’t really experienced any hardship,” says Lopata, now a senior at Deerfield High School. “I was just a protected little kid, and it was really scary. I wanted to do something about it.”

The next year, he decided to raise money for the American Cancer Society (ACS) in honor of his friend by starting Bands Battling Cancer. In its first year, the event raised $4,000.

Bands Battling Cancer is both a fundraiser and a battle of the bands. Eight bands — all made up of high school and middle school students — compete with three-song sets.

The songs can be originals, covers, or a combination.

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Governor Bruce Rauner’s proposed budget takes aim at municipal funding

to close the widening deficits in the state’s bank account — and North Shore communities are worried about the Winnetka resident’s plan.

Rauner’s budget, if successful, would see the amount of state income tax proceeds cities and villages receive each year slashed in half, from 8% to 4%. Al-though it would provide Illinois a savings of $600 million a year, this lost revenue could sacrifice services such as police and fire protection, road maintenance and parks, public transit and

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ter sent to residents that it is “studying the impact of the governor’s proposal,” which would decrease the town’s revenue by $2.2 million. It warned passage could lead to reduced staffing and other cost-contaiment measures.

Highland Park’s Mayor Nancy Rotering, wary of the town’s estimated $1.4 million in cuts, was critical of Rauner’s proposal that put “the state’s troubled finances on our backs … We as a city have acted re-sponsibly and made the tough decisions in managing our fi-nances and expect the same of our state partner.”

The Village of Winnetka encouraged residents to contact the governor.

“A 50% reduction would impact Winnetka and all local governments, including public works and public safety pro-grams as well as services to residents, businesses and visi-tors,” the village noted in an official statement. “This revenue loss, especially in the short-term, would negatively impact the current fiscal year 2015 budget and upcoming fiscal year 2016 budget.”

Municipalities once received 10% of income tax revenue in Illinois’ Local Government Distributive Fund. That was in 1969. In 2011, it was just 6%

before increasing to 8% for the current year; but the 4% totals for 2016 represent a new low.

A chart on RebootIllinois.com shows some of the re-ported dollar figures that North Shore communities would lose in these new cuts, which are based on population:

Deerfield: $900,592Glencoe: $431,049Glenview: $2,208,466Highland Park: $1,470,746Kenilworth: $124,181Lake Bluff: $282,754Lake Forest: $957,420Northbrook: $1,639,103Northfield: $267,831Wilmette: $1,338,511Winnetka: $602,223

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Berlin’s enticements are working. Attendance soared nearly 70 percent in 2012 and jumped roughly another 20 percent the following season.

Berlin invested about $2 million of his own money into

Four Winds Field.“We have to execute the cus-

tomer experience to perfection,” Berlin said in an interview last year with The North Shore Weekend. “You have to run it like a business first, not a vanity purchase. I defy any owner to say he’s having a good time with

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Growing up in Glencoe, Berlin was a Chicago Cubs’ fan “until the ’69 team broke my heart.” He earned a bachelor of arts degree at Syracuse Univer-sity and a law degree at Loyola University. After two years as a

commercial litigator, he and his father bought a packaging firm — now Berlin Packaging.

In 2014, Chicago-based Berlin Packaging was sold to Oak Hill Capital Partners, a private equity firm, for $1.4 billion. Berlin remains chair-man and CEO.

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on April 26 at Pleez in Highland Park, are Dino Kourelis, bass player for the Lovehammers and co-founder of Reep Records; Cassie Moran, founder of Moxie Rock Management; and T.J. Sagen, manager for the Grammy-nominated rock band Disturbed.

Seven years in, Bands Battling Cancer has raised $34,000 for the ACS — all through a $5 cover charge at the door and a $10-per-ticket raffle drawing. Each year the raffle prize coin-cides with the event’s musical theme, such as framed plaques signed by The Beatles, The Rol l ing Stones, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers.

As Lopata prepares to head to college in California next year, he’s been mentoring eighth-grader Steven Jacobson from Shepard Middle School to or-ganize and run Bands Battling Cancer moving forward. He also

plans to start a second Bands Battling Cancer event in Los Angeles while he attends Claremont McKenna College as a government major, focusing on the philosophy of politics and economics.

What began as a way to honor a friend has become a passion, a way to help local bands get at-tention, and it has driven Lopata to consider what he wants to do with the rest of his life.

“I think my interest in poli-tics is a result of my work with the ACS overall, because before I started this event, I didn’t really know what my interests were,” Lopata says. “I realized that my ultimate goal is to help people.

“I see politics, which is what I want to go into after college, as the ultimate way of helping as many people as possible, because the government probably has the farthest reach of any organiza-tion. And it originated with my work with the ACS.”

For more information on Bands Battling Cancer, visit bandsbattlingcancer.org

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Deerfield’s Brody Criz is going to get more RSVPs than he bargained for since

his creative Bar Mitzvah invita-tion has gone viral.

The budding 12-year-old co-median opted to film a three-and-a-half minute video (written and directed by Patrick De Nicola of Northbrook’s Xpress Video Productions) that turns some of his favorite songs into unorthodox parodies, all rewrit-ten with lyrics about being Jewish.

On Pharrell’s “Happy” he sings, “Clap along if you feel the Old Testament is the truth / If you’re 13 that means you’re no longer a youth / Clap if you just tried Manischewitz and it tastes like juice.”

He also reworks Lorde’s “Royal” (“I’m allowed to be spoiled, shouting orders like a king / I’ll rule that’s my mitzvah fantasy”) and gets down to his birthday suit for a cover of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines.”

The video, published Feb. 26,

has already amassed a million views on YouTube and has been featured in headlines as far away as the United Kingdom’s Daily Mail newspaper. While he had the support of his family, all of whom appear in various snippets, the seventh-grader has also re-ceived a flurry of thumbs up from viewers posting comments like

“this kid is my spirit animal,” “Brody wins the Internet today” and one predicting that this will be a parody on “Saturday Night Live”.

This is not the first time a youngster from the Chicago area has become a YouTube sensation for his pop-star parodies — you might recall Elmhurst’s Keenan

Cahill, who found fame after hi-lariously lip synching Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” in 2010 (it has been viewed 56 million times).

Criz posted on his Facebook account this week for everyone to catch him on the WGN Morning News.

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community has welcomed us with open arms, and I owe so much to all of the artists who have taken a chance on us, especially my di-rectors who jumped into working with me with based on a vision. We share an enthusiasm and passion for a new type of theater experience. I sat through audi-tions the other night with our casting director, Erica Sartini, who casts for the Goodman, the legendary director Chuck Smith and brilliant local playwright Lydia Diamond, and had to pinch myself. I can’t believe this is real!

GS: How do you see your experience in real estate intersect-ing with your role as artistic di-rector at Windy City Playhouse, if at all?

AR: The combination of my theater education for my first 20 years and my last 15 years of real estate has prepared me for this role in a unique way. While my passions lie in theater, my busi-ness background gave me the skills I needed to make this all come together. I’ve learned how to run a business and can now apply this to Windy City

Playhouse. While my parents were always supportive of my love of theater, they were very insis-tent on my education being as well rounded as possible. This meant theater studies in college (Brandeis University) came with economics and accounting courses as well. And that’s exactly where I ended up I am practically living a double major [laughs].

GS: What can you tell me about the upcoming productions in Windy City Playhouse’s inau-gural season?

AR: You are in for something special. Our season opens with director Henry Godinez (on staff at Goodman) tackling “End Days,” a loving comedy about a suburban family clinging to what they can in the aftermaths of 9/11, whether that be Jesus, Stephen Hawking or Elvis. Henry has been a dream to work with.

Our second play, “Stick Fly,” was originally produced here in Chicago about 10 years ago, went to Broadway and is ready to come back! Who doesn’t love a juicy family drama? Chuck Smith was the original director and we are so lucky to have him back along with one of the lead actors from

the original production, Phillip Edward Van Lear.

Our third play, “Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight,” is a hilarious and naughty show di-rected by comic genius William Brown, who›s well known for his brilliant work at Writers Theater in Glencoe, among other places. The season finale is a classic ro-mantic comedy set in the 1970s; “Chapter Two” by Neil Simon, directed by the famous Jessica Thebus, who is on staff at Steppenwolf.

GS: You founded the Windy City Playhouse with your husband and your brother. What’s the secret to making sure that every-one gets along?

AR: We are partners in ev-erything together! My husband and I have been business partners for the past 10 years and the three of us have been working in real estate together for the past four years. We are the perfect team. We each have our own strengths and are aware of our weaknesses. We trust each other implicit-ly and always have each others’ backs. I could not imagine better partners.

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Pinstripes in Northbrook was bursting with excitement on Feb. 26 as friends and supporters of the North Suburban YMCA tried their best at bowling and bocce during the

organization’s 9th annual Strong Kids fundraiser. Guests were treated to food, drink, games, and live and

silent auctions. Glenbrook North High School Principal Dr. Paul Pryma was honored with the 2015 Thiel Award

for Leadership and Social Responsibility. Funds raised from the evening will support the Y’s Strong Kids Campaign, which provides scholarships and special

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OF PATIENCE

Before we get any further into this discussion, stop for a second and take a

deep breath with me.Inhale.And exhale.Good. Moving on.It feels like everyone I’ve

talked to this week is knee-deep in his or her busy season at work. Financial services is gearing up for tax deadlines. Not-for-profits are entertaining auditors. Retailers are receiving orders placed at various trade shows. Restaurant preparations for St. Patrick’s Day are in full force.

When we feel that much stress at work, some of it is bound to spill over into our marriage. We can try to leave work at the office, but the people who know us best can feel when something is off; your spouse (and probably your mom) can tell when your blood pressure is up and your energy depleted. It seeps into most every corner of our lives, whether we admit it or not.

I’ve been on both sides of this scenario, and I know in my head (thought I don’t always practice it as well as I’d like) that the best tool in my arsenal is patience. We know that this moment in time, too, shall pass and that the spouses we love will return from their out-of-body experiences if we can just wait them out.

In a sense, it goes back to that Bible verse that is so

closely associated with weddings. Corinthians 13 reads, “Love is patient, love is kind…it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs…it always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”

It was a punchline in my 20s, when I’d heard it read so frequently at weddings that I could recite it from memory; I even received an engagement gift with the verse inscribed (the dish has a place of honor in my living room still, so I see it frequently and smile). But now in my late 30s, with kids and careers and social interests, the words seem less cliché and more instructional.

The challenge remains to be a more patient person as I move through each day.

Psychology Today reported in 2011 that patience — a state of enduring misfortune, annoyance or pain without complaint — is most necessary when we feel challenged because things aren’t going our way. We feel vulnerable and afraid, and the need to protect what is ours

arises. Being comfortable with that discomfort takes away the feelings of anger and aggression that are isolating and counterproductive.

Being patient is not a trait we are born with, but rather a skill that can be developed over time. I scoured the Internet for ways to become more patient. They include:

— Practice gratitude. This is supposed to increase self-control and reduce impulse reactions in all areas of life (expressions of anger and impulse shopping included).

— Be mindful of why you are feeling impatient. Make a list to help verbalize the

source of discomfort and refer to the list when you need to slow down. Embrace the situation as uncomfortable rather than intolerable.

— Make yourself wait for all kind of things. Research shows that we’re actually happier when we have to wait for what we want (even attention from our spouses). Immediate gratification is less satisfying.

— Take a deep breath.We tried that once already,

but a second one won’t hurt you. Whatever it takes, right?

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Molten chocolate cake arises in the hobbyist chef ’s imagination as a towering, insurmountable dessert. A rich, active Mount St. Helens looking beautiful from afar, or from the comfortable — if pleasantly stuffed — vantage point of your favorite steak-house restaurant’s chair.

But get close enough to attempt the arduous recipe yourself, and the lingering potential for catastrophe is real. For heaven’s sake, it calls for liquid hot (chocolate) magma!

Reality is less daunting, assures Marilee Racana Fell-inger. A mother of three kids, Racana Fellinger oversees the Cooking & Wine @ 909 cooking school. The Glen-view resident and former corporate marketing repre-sentative came up with the idea after years of consulting the Food Network for family dinner inspiration. Her main take-away being: such “complex” dishes aren’t that hard to make. And if she was inspired, surely others would be as well?

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The dessert comes from a classic steakhouse class. Before getting to everyone’s favorite lava treat, the class prepared creamy parmesan spinach and spice-crusted hanger steaks. All the while enjoying a dinner party vibe, complete with a wine next to every apprentice chef. Since the class, the host has told Racana Fellinger she has made the hot chocolate cakes for her family at least 10 times. But the fanciness remains.

“If I went to someone’s house and they served that, I’d be impressed,” says Racana Fellinger.

MARILEE RACANA FELLINGER

Marilee’s Hot Chocolate Cakes

TOTAL TIME: 30 MINUTES • SERVES 104 oz. semi-sweet baking chocolate1/2 cup butter1 cup powdered sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 2 whole eggs 2 egg yolks 6 Tbsp. flour 1 Tbsp. powdered sugar 1/2 pint fresh raspberries

1. Heat oven to 425 degrees. Prepare standard muffin pan with paper liners.

2. Melt chocolate and butter in large microwavable bowl on high one minute, or until the

chocolate is completely melted. Add sugar; mix until completely blended. Whisk in vanilla and eggs. Stir in flour. Spoon batter evenly into prepared pan.

3. Bake 10 minutes or until sides of cakes are firm but centers are still soft. (There should be a soft spot in the middle about the size of a quarter.) Let stand one minute, invert cakes onto plate. Carefully remove paper liner. Dust with additional powdered sugar and serve with berries. Serve immediately!

Creating Marilee’s Hot Chocolate Cakes can be learned during classes at Cook-ing & Wine @ 909.PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER


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