Jodie Jacobs

Bridge builder: Highland Park ad exec, playwright and longtime bridge buff Wendell Abern claims he doesn't get angry at the bridge table. He doesn't have to. Abern just evened the...

Racing toward youth: Listen up all you men who think that turning 30 means trading athletic prowess for couch-side cable surfing. Ten years, a wife and three youngsters after he...

Monet madness: There's a good chance you can still get in to see the Monet exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago through Nov. 26. A little more than half...

A birth announcement: It had to happen. If people were going to cruise the information superhighway, then sooner or later hospitals were going to add an Internet site to service...

What's good for the goose: It was indeed a fashion show that was being staged recently by Mangels, a Long Grove gift shop. The ladies sipped tea and snacked on...

A little less scary: Halloween may bring out the ghosts and goblins, but it also fills walks and roads with youngsters. With that in mind, villages and organizations are offering...

What's good for the goose: It was indeed a fashion show that was being staged recently by Mangels, a Long Grove gift shop. The ladies sipped tea and snacked on...

For art's sake: Although the political "palate" for supporting the arts may be drying up in Washington, the message in Highland Park is that art is a valuable cultural expression...

Coffeehouse co-owners Dennis Leidall and Tom Seela need hardly advertise the freshness of their roasted beans. The pungent French roast fragrance that hovers over Bannockburn about three times a week...

A chef's dream: Although pastry chef Gale Gand's flight home from Cambridge, Mass., landed a few weeks ago, the Buffalo Grove resident has yet to touch the ground. Gand, half...