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Golf Mill Mall: Transformations in Niles, IL
Golf Mill Mall, or Golf Mill Shopping Center, opened on October 13, 1960, in Niles, Illinois. The mall’s design featured a distinct “mill” theme with ponds, bridges, and a functioning waterwheel. The architecture included an office tower, designed by Edo Belli, resembling the top of a golf ball, which became an iconic landmark.
Why the Heartland Animal Shelter needs your help and the best ways you can offer support
Just like that, one morning Heartland Animal Shelter, a premier shelter in Wheeling, IL, was literally underwater. Executive Director Jenny Schlueter explains why help is needed, either by fostering or adopting animals, and/or to give money. Insurance isn’t going to cover all this. All the animals survived, though Jenny tells the story that if it wasn’t for one sanitation worker, there may have been deaths. She explains how the shelter community and animal lovers have come to the rescue.
New in Evanston: A first look at Lefty’s Righteous Bagels
First Mensch’s, now Lefty’s Righteous Bagels. Lovers of Jewish heritage foods are having a real moment in Evanston this month!. When it comes to bagels, what’s not to like? And yet, Lefty’s provides us with the capacity to love. It’s early days for Brad Nadborne (aka “Lefty”) and his team of intrepid bakers, but if today’s soft opening is any indication, these bagels do not disappoint. This is a Montreal-style bagel, meaning it’s been hand-rolled, kettle-boiled, then baked… but in a notoriously fussy wood-burning oven. It can be hard to get the bake just right, but when you do— as Lefty’s surely does — then it’s just the right ratio of crust to chew.
Picturing Evanston: From ‘resist’ to ‘sister’
Evanston’s Wordle of the day; Someone reacted quickly to the presidential news and rearranged the “RESIST” yard sign on Asbury Avenue south of Greenleaf Street. (Photo by Joerg Metzner.) Joerg Metzner is the creator and photographer behind "Picturing Evanston" (picturing-evanston.com), a community oriented project that grew from...
Cotswold-style cottage calls the design shots
It wasn’t the biggest house on the block, or the most imposing, but there was a distinctive Englishness in the steeply pitched roofline, arched entryway and weeping mortar that spoke to her inner Anglophile. Anne Bodine, the RoundTable’s former community events editor, recalled admiring the residence at 2229 Central...
“Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus! The Musical!”
***** Theater for little ones is fun! Over the years, I have watched many a performance geared for the little one; the future theater audiences are learning at these productions. There are many theater companies that do only children’s theater and then there is The Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre in Lincolnshire. This theater-in-the-round offers marvelous performances, one hour in duration, that for the most part utilize the existing set of the mainstage show for adults. The current production is one that I previously watched at The Greenhouse Theatre in Chicago, where they could use a set and have the audience on one side looking into the action. At Marriott, this is not the case, people are watching from all four vantage points, so the director has to make sure that the action is viewed clearly by all of the audience. Not always easy, but in this case, Lorenzo Rush Junior works his magic in getting done to perfection.
Art student wins last ‘paint out’
Lucy Clary won Friday’s paint out at the Evanston Plein Art Festival. Nineteen artists painted scenes around the Noyes Cultural Center, 927 Noyes St. Clary, 19, raised in Chicago, is a summer intern for Evanston Made, the organization that sponsors the event. She is starting her second year at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. “I chose the scene with all the foliage and the quiet train tracks,” she said. The festival’s grand finale will run from noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday at the Rotary International, 1560 Sherman Ave. Sixty plein-air painters will display one work for judging and sell their art. (Photo by Lisa Degliantoni.)
At This Time: Plein-air champs
Artist David R. Becker celebrates after winning best of show at the Evanston Plein Air Festival for his painting looking west on Noyes Street at the CTA viaduct. Becker, of Ingleside, painted all five days this week. He said he wasn’t sure what to enter, but a woman watching him work on Noyes told him: “You’re going to win the award,” as he was finishing this painting. “It’s all about the light,” Becker said. “I started at 8 a.m. on Friday. I love morning light.” He took the first-place judges’ award by besting 52 other painters at the grand finale of the fest sponsored by Evanston Made. (Photo by Richard Cahan.)
Photos: Families watch ‘Luca’ under the sunset at Lee Street Beach
Hundreds of kids and adults alike enjoyed the city’s latest Starlight Series Movie in the Park event Friday night, when they set up blankets and folding chairs at Lee Street Beach for a showing of the Pixar film “Luca.” See more photos of the gathering by the RoundTable’s Joerg Metzner below.
Allison Springer: From Pony Club to Changing the Eventing World
This article originally appeared in the April 2024 issue of Sidelines Magazine. Bribery can get you far, but for young Allison Springer, it led to a lifetime of horse-crazy pursuits at the highest level of the eventing sport. Raised in the outskirts of Chicago in Barrington, Illinois, Allison and her city-grown parents were enjoying their new life in the country when she had the opportunity to ride a neighbor’s pony one day after school—and, as she describes it, “that’s how the disease begins for a little girl.”
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