Highwood food pantry handing out holiday meals
For now, John Cullen, director of the St. James Food Pantry, is focused on providing holiday meals to 65 or 70 people, but his dream is for no one to...
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Well known Chicagoans name their holiday family classics
What makes a holiday film, play or TV show a classic? For many, it's because watching it brings back fond memories of holidays past. For some, it's because the film...
Maureen Holtz on ‘The Last Resort’
"The Last Resort" is a provocative drama about an African nation that hatches an economic development plan to legalize physician-assisted suicide and attract "death tourism." Set in 2021, the novel...
‘Quiet Christmas’ an alternative to festivities
People not quite up to fully experiencing the holiday season, but wanting to celebrate the Nativity can participate in a first-ever "Quiet Christmas" service on Wednesday at 2 p.m. at...
Fledgling Highland Park school hosts holiday concert
Chesterton Academy's Highland Park campus is capping a year of firsts with the free "Lessons & Carols for Christmas" on Friday at Immaculate Conception Parish Center, 770 Deerfield Road. This...
‘A night of faith and beauty’ in Deerfield
Cantor Jennifer Frost of B'nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim in Deerfield invokes the Yiddish word beshert, which means "meant to be," to describe the Dec. 6 concert featuring four of the...
PEN auction features authors’ notes on first editions
Collectors of first editions ordinarily would steer clear of books marked up and full of scribbled notes — but it depends who's doing the scribbling. For the 75 books on...
Women’s boutique Ami Ami returns to Highland Park
After years in Deerfield, women's boutique Ami Ami recently returned to Highland Park, reopening at 668 Central Ave. Merrie Spade established Ami Ami in Highland Park before departing 16 years...
Holy Cross School in Deerfield named Blue Ribbon School
The Department of Education recently honored Holy Cross School in Deerfield by designating it a Blue Ribbon School. Holy Cross – a private K-8 institution in the Archdiocese of Chicago...
‘What Jennifer Saw’ marks debut for Evanston man
For writers hoping to sell their first books, Emma Cline represents the dream. Evanston resident Hal Schweig is more the reality check. Cline, 25, with but a few essays and...