SATURDAY OCTOBER 24 | SUNDAY OCTOBER 25 2015 FIND US ONLINE: DailyNorthShore.com Glenbrook | Northbrook ECRWSS LOCAL POSTAL CUSTOMER PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 91 HIGHLAND PK, IL NO. 56 | A JWC MEDIA PUBLICATION FOLLOW US: ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY BLITT BY JOANNA SCHNEIDER DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM F or Northbrook native Alexan- der Rubinow, the road to be- coming 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 NEWS Continued on PG 12 Continued on PG 12 Northbrook Native Wins Emmy BY SCOTT HOLLERAN T he history of Glenview, Il- linois, centers upon farms, groves and railroads—as well as books, electronics and a naval air base—and it began in 1899 when the town incorpo- rated at the convergence of four townships in northern Illinois. “What’s unique about Glen- view is the open space—the parks—and the grove, Wagner Farm, and the history center in the middle of town,” says Glen- view History Center’s curator Wayne Carle (pronounced carly). “ere’s also the Lutheran cem- etery, there’s Swainwood, where [newspaper columnist] Jack Mabley lived, and the North Shore Country Club. Four town- ships meet here—Northfield, Maine, New Trier and Niles— and I think that’s the only town like that.” Carle, a retired Marine who lives in Antioch, ought to know. He lived in the village, which incorporated on June 17, 1899, for 20 years. He was a mailman and the Glenview Post Office’s main window clerk for 33 years. Carle’s father, who became Glen- view’s assistant postmaster, worked on the Milwaukee Rail- road’s mail service in Glenview for 40 years. Carle’s sister still works at Glenbrook South High School. Carle’s family history mirrors Glenview’s past. “My dad grew up working on a farm in Glenview,” he explained. “So I used to cut peonies and take them to the wholesaler in Morton Grove—until the land was ac- quired by developers.” Such is the country’s, region’s and especially Glenview’s history from agricul- ture to the Industrial Revolution. “The village [intervened] 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. e U.S. Civil War has Glen- view links, too, Carle said. “e 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 Ken- nicott, 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. French- man 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 devel- opers. e 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 A VIEW TO A GLEN SPORTS John Clark rushes for more than 215 yards in Glenbrook North’s win over Niles North. P25 Kennicotts Grove. PHOTO BY TEEMU008ONS ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY BLITT SUNDAY BREAKFAST Find out how a former McDonald’s CEO helped bring ‘Sue’ the Dinosaur to Chicago. P30 SOCIAL SCENE MAE Plastic Surgery & Transcend MedSpa celebrated renovation. P18
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For Northbrook native Alexan-der Rubinow, the road to be-coming 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
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Continued on PG 12Continued on PG 12
Northbrook Native Wins Emmy
BY SCOTT HOLLERAN
The history of Glenview, Il-linois, centers upon farms, groves and railroads—as
well as books, electronics and a naval air base—and it began in 1899 when the town incorpo-rated at the convergence of four townships in northern Illinois.
“What’s unique about Glen-view is the open space—the parks—and the grove, Wagner Farm, and the history center in the middle of town,” says Glen-view History Center’s curator Wayne Carle (pronounced carly). “There’s also the Lutheran cem-etery, there’s Swainwood, where [newspaper columnist] Jack Mabley lived, and the North Shore Country Club. Four town-ships meet here—Northfield, Maine, New Trier and Niles—and I think that’s the only town like that.”
Carle, a retired Marine who lives in Antioch, ought to know. He lived in the village, which incorporated on June 17, 1899, for 20 years. He was a mailman and the Glenview Post Office’s main window clerk for 33 years. Carle’s father, who became Glen-view’s assistant postmaster, worked on the Milwaukee Rail-road’s mail service in Glenview for 40 years. Carle’s sister still works at Glenbrook South High School.
Carle’s family history mirrors Glenview’s past.
“My dad grew up working on a farm in Glenview,” he explained. “So I used to cut peonies and take them to the wholesaler in Morton Grove—until the land was ac-quired by developers.” Such is the country’s, region’s and especially Glenview’s history from agricul-ture to the Industrial Revolution.
“The village [intervened]
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 Glen-view 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 Ken-nicott, 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. French-man 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 devel-opers.
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
A VIEW TO A GLEN
SPORTSJohn Clark rushes for more than 215 yards in Glenbrook North’s win over Niles North. P25
Kennicotts Grove. PHOTO BY TEEMU008ONS
ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY BLITT
SUNDAY BREAKFASTFind out how a former McDonald’s CEO helped bring ‘Sue’ the Dinosaur to Chicago. P30
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12 a view to a glen A look at the history of Glenview
12 an emmy win! How a Northbrook native found success in television.
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15 love and marriage Creatively channeling the pain of divorce.
16 north shore foodie All Spice Cafe Adds some zest to wings!
17 north shorts Read Mike Lubow’s brief, insightful musings about life.
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21 �houses of the week Intriguing houses for sale in our towns are profiled.
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to his son, Robert, who became an explorer who later helped develop Alaska.”
It was John Kennicott, the first doctor in the area, who discovered Glenview’s growth potential.
“He recognized the prairie for what it was and he saw how it could be commercially useful,” Carle said. “Most of the down-town area was marshy, which made it great for farming. There were a lot of flowers and small vegetable farms and a lot of folks grew peonies, so there was a lot of landscaping. Glenview was flat, level and fertile due to all the moisture, so it was good for farming.”
The Kennicotts were English, he said, as were most of Glenview’s early settlers. The second wave was German. A third wave—which included Hugh Burnham and Swain Nelson, who had one of the largest landscaping enterprises—migrated to Glenview from Penn-sylvania. Like Joseph Sears, the
founder of Kenilworth, they were of the Swedenborgian faith.
Whatever their origins and beliefs, Carle said that the men who came to live in Glenview were often far-sighted, innovative and industrious.
“John Hutchings’ father settled 160 acres in the middle of town—the Hutchings house is where the museum is located—and John started the first saw mill and the first grist mill powered by steam in the township,” he said.
Glenview today has fewer company headquarters than in the 20th century. After Glenview Naval Air Station was closed in 1995, the village’s top employer became Glenbrook Hospital. Il-linois Tool Works and ABT Elec-tronics are based in Glenview. But Zenith Corporation is gone—the property was taken over by Aon—and Glenview-based textbook company Scott Foresman was bought by UK-based Pearson. Kraft Foods’ Glenview headquar-ters moved to Northfield.
The residential population
changed, too. “Glenview is a mixed commu-
nity,” Carle explained. “Now,
there’s a mosque where the gas company used to be. One syna-gogue moved out and one came in on the north. There are a lot of Koreans and Indians in Glenview now. There’s a black population. There’s a Mormon temple. It’s all mixed now.”
Glenview’s past population included newspaper reporter and columnist Jack Mabley, Chicago Cubs third baseman Ron Santos and the late local TV weatherman Harry Volkman. Chicago Bulls’ center Artis Gilmore lived in Glenview. So did both real estate partners Koenig and Strey. Among Glenview’s most famous residents was candy company heiress Helen Brach, who disappeared in 1977. Though she was later declared dead, the mystery of her disap-pearance remains unsolved.
Carle said that the town’s most iconic place is probably the Ken-nicott house at the grove. But it previously may have been the house Hugh Burnham built, which was later demolished. Carle said that the Victorian house with
the wraparound front porch looked out at Glenview’s open expanse: “From his balcony, Hugh
Burnham could look north for quite a distance—it was farmland all around.”
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is the open space—the
parks—and the grove, Wagner Farm, and the history center in the middle
of town.”
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Arts Emmy for their outstanding editing work in the reality-pro-gramming category. The trio was honored as part of the technical awards for the season premiere episode of the Discovery Chan-nel’s “Deadliest Catch: A Broth-erhood Tested.” Rubinow has worked on the series – which brings in three-to-four million viewers per episode – for six seasons.
Fellow contenders included: “The Amazing Race,” “Project Runway” and “Project Runway All Stars,” “Shark Tank” and “Sur-vivor.” The Primetime Emmys aired Sept. 20.
Here, Daily North Shore talks with the homegrown talent about his recent win, why he loves what he does and the thing that forever makes Northbrook feel like home.
DNS: Winning an Emmy is not something most people get to do! What did it feel like?
AR: It was one of those moments like seeing your child born or getting married or grad-uating college – it is hard to verbalize but it was spectacular to say the least. And to have my parents and sister and wife there to witness it was truly wonder-ful. And it is forever.
DNS: What is best/most fun thing about working on “Deadli-est Catch”? Why is it such a cool show?
AR: It is incredibly gratifying to work on a show that is so well loved and acclaimed and admired.
I look forward to work and creat-ing something new every single day at Original Productions. I love telling the stories of the fishermen we document and fol-lowing them through the years, through their ups and downs.
DNS: Breaking into TV, whether you’re on-screen or off, isn’t easy. How did you make your way from Northbrook to L.A.?
AR: Coming out of fifth grade, the video production summer-school class at Northbrook Junior High just spoke to me. I enjoyed [production] to such a degree that it became like there was nothing else I wanted to do or be. This was it. I had found something I was truly passionate about.
After college, I sent my resume out to everyone in Chicago, any-thing that had call letters: post houses, production houses, TV shows at the time. After a few unpaid internships, I was still putting feelers out to places in L.A. A contact I had made years earlier at Paramount had a lead for me and I got a job logging tape for an MTV show called “Fraternity Life.”
I moved out with two suit-cases and was living at my great uncle’s house. The job ended after three months, but it lead to a job on Project Greenlight Season 2 on HBO and then another job on “Modern Marvels” for the History Channel. I worked for the company that made Modern Marvels, Actuality Productions, for nearly six years, starting as a Post Production Assistant and
working my way up. I had my first editor credit on television in 2008.
DNS: Any specific influences?AR: I was definitely influenced
by the knowledge that John Hughes had grown up in my hometown, made his movies in my hometown and attended the same high school as me. This lit a fire, and inspired me to delve into his world a bit.
I am influenced and have always been influenced by my parents. By their drive and passion for what they do and it drives me to be the best that I can. And my teachers. Vince Pinelli at Glen-
brook North High School, and Franklin Miller at the University of Iowa. They were able to guide me and teach me the fundamen-tals of what I do now for a living. When you are in school, you are essentially a one-man-band in your projects. But what I realized very quickly was I liked editing the best. I liked putting it all together at the end, and I got such a sense of satisfaction when it was all finished and I could show it to an audience.
DNS: Do you live out West full-time? How does the SoCal lifestyle compare to Northbrook’s Midwest roots?
AR: I live with my wife and my three-year-old son in Los Angeles. We love Chicago and go back as often as we can – three-day-weekends and holidays, or other special occasions. Northbrook still feels like home. In L.A., I almost never wear a jacket; we can do outdoor activities all year round. But we miss the seasons changing in the Midwest: the leaves changing colors; bundling up to go out into freshly fallen snow.
DNS: What part of editing tele-vision programs do you find most rewarding? Have you worked on other projects that make you
especially proud?AR: The most gratifying part
of working in TV is that I love doing it and I love hearing peo-ple’s feedback.
Outside of “Deadliest Catch,” some other highlights of my career have been the Sundance Award Winning feature docu-mentary, “Waiting for Superman,” the HBO series “Project Green-light,” which has just come back for a fourth season, and my first credit on MTV’s “The Real World.” Also, the History Channel series, “Modern Marvels,” for which I worked on 269 episodes and the Joe Man-tegna film, “Uncle Nino,” which shot around the Northshore of Chicago in the summer of 2002.
DNS: Any upcoming projects you’re particularly excited about?
AR: I am about to start my second episode on the fifth season of Discovery Channel’s “Bering Sea Gold,” which should be on the air in coming months. I also am excited about a brand new show I worked on called, “The Yard” for National Geographic. I edited two episodes of that – one of them being the series premiere – and it should be coming out spring 2016.
DNS: Outside of your profes-sional life, what are your three favorite things in the world?
AR: My family, my family and my family. (And the Cubs-Bears-Bulls-Blackhawks-&-Hawkeyes)!
Author’s note: responses were edited for space, clarity and consistency.
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Pumpkin Smash and BashHalloween is over: The things
that go bump in the night, the boogiemen, ghouls, minions, and goblins are supplanted by the winter holidays. Now comes the yearly question. What to do with all those extra pumpkins lying around?
From 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., on Saturday, November 7 at Flick Park, let the pumpkins have another day—until you smash them into smithereens. Bring your Halloween pumpkin to the Flick Park sled hill for a pumpkin roll competition, and have fun smash-ing your pumpkin and turning it into compost that will help to nourish plants come spring.
The event is free and open to the public. Flick Park is located at 3600 Glenview Rd.
Trunk or Treat for OLPHGuild 36 of the OLPH
Women’s Club invites the kids out for a night of spooktacular fun during their “Trunk or Treat” event on Friday, Oct. 30, from 5 to 7 p.m. The evening will feature a collection of festively decorated cars that will have treats for kids of ages. The $5 admission gives costumed kids the chance to visit all the fun cars as they collect their candy. All proceeds benefit OLPH church. Trunk or Treat will take place in the OLPH parking lot, 1775 Grove Street, Glenview.
YMCA Spooktacular Halloween Party
On October 25, Halloween spirits run wild at the YMCA. The whole family can enjoy haunted houses, costume contests, bounce houses, and the one-of-a-kind Spooky Pool boat ride. The Halloween Party is free for Y members and $20 per family for non-members.
The event is open to the public from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m., with early
access at 1:30 exclusively for families of children with special needs. For more information, visit nsymca.org or call 847-272-7250.
Bring on the Cup!St. Norbert Parish will host the
Stanley Cup at the school gym, 1817 Walters Ave. from 6 to 10 p.m. on October 29 as part of an event that will benefit the North-field Food Pantry and other local causes.
Photos with the cup for indi-viduals or families will be $20. A special for corporate sponsors means that for $500, groups of up to 100 people will be able to spend time with the Cup.
Got Leaves?Northbrook residents are re-
minded that there are three dis-posal options for yard waste: composting, mulching, and col-lection.
Yard waste must be in bio-degradable bags with yard waste stickers attached or in a 32 gallon can marked “Yard Waste” with the sticker attached on the handle.
Stickers are $1.98 each and are available from Advanced Dis-posal (847-272-4145) or the Village Hall.
Bags/Stickers are available at Northbrook Ace Hardware stores (1941 Cherry Ln.), Jewel (2775 Pfingsten Rd., Glenview), Red’s Garden Center (3460 Dundee Rd.), Sunset Foods (1127 Church St.) and Walgreens (2871 Pfing-sten Rd., Glenview).
Pick-up runs through the end of November. For more details and information about the Sea-sonal Collection Program and Senior Discounts, visit north-brook.il.us/yardwaste.
When the Reaper ComesMeet some of today’s most
talented writers at the Northbrook Public Library’s new series, an Evening with the Author. At each event, authors will read a selection of their work, answer questions, and sign copies of their books. Books will be available to pur-chase courtesy of the Book Bin.
On Tuesday, October 27 at 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium, join
authors Lori Rader-Day (“The Black Hour”), Susanna Calkins (“A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate”), Jamie Frevelett i (“Running from the Devil”) and Lynne Raimondo (“Dante’s Wood”) for a thrilling discussion of mystery novels.
Streetscape at The Glen Approved
The final site plan for a $3 million streetscape of The Glen has recently been approved by village trustees. Construction on new sidewalks, landscaping, and new signage is set to begin in March of next year and last through September.
New, bigger signs are also planned for The Glen’s entrances at Patriot Boulevard, Lake Avenue and Willow Road.
Those 20-foot LED entrance signs at the intersections of Patriot Boulevard and Willow Road, and Patriot and Lake Avenue, will keep a subtle his-toric nod to the site’s former life as the Glenview Naval Air Station.
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LOVE & MARRIAGE
Contrary to the stereotype of the strong silent type, Evan-ston resident John Frank
has LOTS to say about divorce.
His two-act play, which will be staged two weekends in Novem-ber, is the tip of the iceberg.
“Men don’t talk about how they
feel; they just kind of soldier on and people around them think, ‘oh, he’ll be fine.’ But there is, in fact, a lot of pain that men don’t talk about,” said Frank, who di-vorced after 16 years of marriage to his first wife. “For example, only seeing your kids every other weekend is a terrible way to live. I have no trouble talking about that.”
And so it was that he wrote Boys in the Basement, described as “a unique look at divorce from the perspective of men who have lost their families and everything they once held dear.” It is inspired by the network Frank developed over the years after his divorce.
“In the suburbs, a divorced man is kind of a non-person. I created a network of divorced men friends, as we were all sort of stuck in limbo,” he said.
Frank explained to me that the script tells the story of the tenants in an apartment building - effi-ciency apartments, that is, located close to several of the tenant’s children and therefore the tenants’ ex-wives – who meet nightly in the basement of their building to
share stories over beers.Among the tenants Frank de-
scribed there is a player, who is twice divorced; a younger guy who is working up the courage to talk to women; an attorney (played by Frank) who is having an affair with his second ex-wife, though she has gone back to her first husband; a new tenant, who thinks he still has a chance to reconcile with his ex-wife; and the landlord, a still-married guy who flaunts to his tenants that he knows what it takes to be success-ful in marriage.
(There are a few women in the building, too, who cross paths with the gentlemen throughout the play.)
“It’s about the fine line between love and hate,” Frank said of his play, “how quickly love turns to hate, and how men deal with loss. In many ways divorce is like death, as it changes your dreams and your life so quickly.”
Frank purposefully recruited a female director, Mary Reynard, to counter the male perspective from which he wrote the script. But he is firm: the play will wake audi-
ence members up to the man’s mindset during and after a divorce.
“I want people to think about how the other person feels when they’re fighting and finding ways to separate themselves. I want people to think about how trau-matic divorce can be and yet how people can go on, and whether there can still be true love.”
Frank believes in it – heck, he
remarried in 2007 – but he admits that it’s hard.
“We’re still people and we still have feelings. Some will change and some will never change, but that’s just how life is.”
Boys in the Basement will be performed at the Piven Theatre Nov. 6-8 and Nov. 13-15. Find more information and purchase tickets at http://evanston2ndactplayers.com
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NORTH SHORE FOODIE
ALL SPICE CAFÉ ADDS KICK TO WINGSBY SIMON MURRAY
It’s here! That sleeping giant that awakens every fall to wreak havoc on your cholesterol and
midsection—the National Foot-ball League—is here. Cue the fanfare, and the grease. Cue the fanfaronade, and the beer.
But seemingly nothing goes better together with pigskin on TV than the flightless wings of chickens tossed into a fryer: deep-fried until golden brown, coated with a vinegar-based cayenne pepper hot sauce and a little butter, and, finally, dunked into ranch or bleu cheese dressing (a polarizing, hot-button issue at tables around the country).
How much do we love chicken wings? According to the Na-tional Chicken Council—the trade association representing the U.S. poultry industry—it’s esti-mated that Americans consumed 1.25 billion chicken wings in 2014. That wasn’t the yearly esti-
mate. That was one day—February 2nd, to be exact—or Super Bowl XLVIII.
As the score of a football game with two lousy defenses is bound to be inflated, the same can be said for the price of wings: in the fourth quarter (traditionally anyway) it goes up, as restaurants stock up for the Super Bowl each year. Such economics (or wing-onomics) would have you believe that Americans have always craved spicy, deep-fried protein.
Not really. While chicken wings have long been a staple of Southern cooking, 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the cre-ation of the buffalo wing in—where else?—Buffalo, New York.
At the time, J.D. Cowles was going to school at the State Uni-versity of New York at Oswego. A short drive from Buffalo, the idea of “Buffalo Wings” was already starting to spread when Cowles tried them for the first time. He was blown away.
That led to all kinds of experi-ments on his own, with Cowles eventually perfecting a cayenne habanero sauce to go with his wings—and anything else. “It’s good on so much more than just chicken wings,” says Cowles, “it adds great flavor and a little bit of heat.”
Cowles (who lives in Califor-nia) was selling his hot sauces—his likeness, made out of peppers, is on each bottle—to local restau-rants, including the Firehouse Restaurant on Venice Beach. The brand was called All Spice Cafe, on account of a desire to own his own restaurant one day, when a real estate developer from Chicago stopped in at a restaurant and tried it.
He called his friend Buddy Feldman—an executive vice president in the food industry for over 25 years—to tell him about it. The rest, as they say, is history.
All four hot sauces are now being manufactured on the North
Shore. They are available in Mariano’s, Jewel Osco, Sunset Foods, and slew of independents from Texas to Missouri, Califor-nia, Ohio, and Michigan.
“I was thinking it would be nice to retire from my crazy day job and [open] a little café some-where,” says Cowles. Now with the help of Feldman and a third
partner, they’re bringing the heat to the whole country—chicken wings very much included.
To find out more about All Spice Cafe, visit allspicecafe.com.
J.D. Cowles. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMIE CARY.
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“Interesting friends”
People around here are just too interesting. You wonder: where do you fit
in? One day you’re reading a junky spy thriller over a char dog at a fun-food place in Highland Park...
And the next night you’re out with your wife and another couple at a North Shore bistro, squinting at a menu written in French. The other couple is rec-ommending a good book.
It’s a little hard to hear details over the din, but it seems the book is a two-volume biography of Freud’s housekeeper’s mother-
in-law. Something like that. You’re thinking: “Huh?” And at another recent North
Shore dinner with a different couple, the guy across the table tells you he took a 30-mile bike ride from Lake Forest to Evan-ston that afternoon. Later, his wife announces that they’re going to be leaving soon for a Shakespeare fest out west where they’ll see two plays a day for a week.
You’re thinking: “Huh?” The fact is that you’ve come to
a point in life, geography and demographics where you find yourself in the company of people who have way more going
on than you have. They’re into pretty deep sub-
jects and they’re doing interest-ing things. But the things they care about are not always the kind you have an honest interest in.
C’mon, you’re probably not going to read arcane biographies. And you’re not going to bike a marathon in spandex before dinner. You wouldn’t cross the street for a Shakespearian endur-ance contest, let alone fly across the country for one.
What are you doing with such interesting friends? Better ques-tion: what are they doing with you?
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Glenbrook North running back John Clark was down, but he wasn’t about to pack
it in.After fumbling the football at
the Niles North 16-yard line, he senior sat on the sideline. The wind had been knocked out of him, and the wind seemingly had been knocked out of the Spartans’ sails. They trailed the host Viking 30-21 with just 11:30 left in regulation in this Central Subur-ban League North showdown on Oct. 16.
“I kept thinking to myself, ‘Get up, get up. Keep on playing. Don’t let this stop you,’ ” Clark said. “It was all mental right there. I was beat up. I was bleeding. I almost puked. But my brain told me to keep on going, and I did.”
The next time he touched the ball, Clark gained 11 yards on a sweep. Three plays after that, he broke free on a wheel pattern and caught a 37-yard touchdown pass from Kevin Burnside.
Clark later scored the game-winner, a 21-yard gain on a draw play with 1:28 left in the game.
GBN wound winning the game 34-31 to clinch the divi-sional title. The Spartans (7-1 overall, 4-0 CSL North) go into the season finale with Maine West on Oct. 23 looking to improve their seeding with the IHSA playoffs looming.
“I’m just proud that we came back,” said GBN head coach Bob Pieper, who watched his team rally from a 30-14 third-quarter deficit. “We told them in the meeting room before we came here that they would face adver-sity. (Niles North) is good. They’re talented and score a lot of points.”
Clark and his senior classmates have faced adversity before. Much of it came last season, when the Spartans struggled and missed the state playoffs.
“Last year, it was brutal,” Clark said. “But during the offseason, we used it as motivation to get better.”
Clark’s improvement in speed
is noticeable. Last season, he struggled to stay on the field. This year, he’s one of the centerpieces of the GBN offense.
Clark averaged close to 10 yards per carry against Niles North, gaining 215 yards on 23 attempts. The senior also caught three passes for 81 yards.
Clark now has 1,285 rushing yards on the season.
“He worked really hard in the weight room, he worked really hard with our speed coaches,”
Pieper said. “And he’s lost a little weight. He carries himself a lot better than last year.
“He’s faster, he’s stronger. Just in better shape,” the coach added.
Niles North jumped out to quick 14-0 lead, thanks to a suc-cessful onside kick that kept the GBN offense off the field. The Vikings very nearly succeeded on a second onside kick, but the Niles North kicker failed to kick the ball 10 yards.
Vikings running back Bar-
rington Wade actually outgained Clark with 243 rushing yards on 35 carries. A 31-yard Wade run put the Vikings up 14-0.
“We are a full family, even if the family is down, we’re going to pick each other up,” Clark said. “Even though we had a bad half, we are a family and we never give up.”
Notable: Junior quarterback Kevin Burnside (8-20-0, 162 yards) continues to be clutch. He
threw TD passes to Clark and Nick Karis. He also ran the ball 10 times for 57 yards with a TD.Karis had himself a day. He rushed the ball 14 times for 71 yards and one touchdown, while he caught two passes for 42 yards.
Mitch Schermerhorn was pro-ductive on both sides of the ball. On offense, the GBN senior had two catches for 33 yards and three rushes for 23 yards. On defense, he amassed seven solo tackles and 11 assists with two tackles for loss.
Patrick Strickland also stood out on defense: 12 tackles, includ-ing two for losses.
The team’s other tackle leaders were Gerry Luc (11), Milad Hos-seini (10), Brandon Tucker (8), Johnny Gilchrist (8), Dimitrije Milutinovic (8), Matt Pawlowski (8), Keegan Samuelson (7) and Alex Bubaris (6). Bubaris and Gilchrist had interceptions, while Samuelson had a forced fumble. Schermerhorn and Michael Karb recovered fumbles.
A KNOCKOUT PERFORMANCE Clark, Spartans play for keeps in comeback win at Niles North
John Clark (No. 22) tries to slip a tackle in GBN’s game at Niles North. The running back finished with 215 rushing yards. PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER
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Glenbrook South senior wide receiver Jack Healy has an opportunity to play
at the next level, and he has plenty of highlights from this season to send to interested college coaches.
It’s safe to say his Oct. 2 touchdown grab against Maine South will be at or near the be-ginning of any highlight reel.
With the ball at the five-yard-line, Healy ran a fade pattern to the back of the end zone. Despite double coverage, the 6-foot-4 receiver reached up and secured quarterback Daniel Jenkins’ throw with one hand, pinning the ball against his helmet as he fell.
“It will go down in Glenbrook South football history as one of the greatest catches ever,” Titans longtime head coach Mike Noll said of the play that tied the score 7-7.
For much of that evening, the game also seemed like one for the ages, as the Titans went toe-to-toe with the powerhouse Hawks before losing 34-31 in overtime.
A victory over a Maine South squad that has not lost a league game since the year 2000, might have propelled Glenbrook South to great heights. Instead, the Titans (3-5, 1-3) will miss the postseason, a fate sealed by a 35-14 home loss to New Trier on Oct. 16.
But Healy’s contribution has been a major bright spot. After making little impact as a junior, Healy has become one of the area’s most dangerous receivers, entering Saturday’s season-fina-le at Waukegan with 55 catches for 774 yards and four touch-downs.
“Last year, (Healy) wasn’t fast enough, wasn’t big enough, wasn’t anything enough,” Noll said. “He had a really good off-season, worked hard, grew a lot and got stronger. He’s had a great season and can certainly go on and play in college. He has become a heckuva player.”
Healy is the latest in Glen-brook South’s line of talented big receivers, a list that goes back nearly a decade and includes the likes of 6-6 Dan Monckton, 6-4 Trent Monckton and 6-4 Cody Carroll.
When the 2014 season con-cluded, it seemed unlikely Healy ever would find himself men-tioned in the same breath as those other tall Titan receivers.
“(At the end of last year) the
coaches told me to work hard (in the offseason) and that they had confidence in me,” said Healy, who played at 6-2, 170 pounds as a junior. “But I don’t think they knew I would prog-ress this much.”
Healy grew two inches, added 20 pounds of muscle and im-proved his hands and speed, working regularly with a local sports performance company called TCBOOST.
“They came to (GBS) once a week during the summer and worked with us on our 40 times and on stride improvement,” Healy said. “I also changed my body and became a more com-plete athlete in the weight room.”
Healy said he was motivated by the desire to come through for his fellow Titans.
“I wanted to be there for my teammates and wanted them to
be able to rely on me,” he said. “I was in there (working out) every day before school. The days I didn’t want to go, I just thought about the year before and how I was not capable of making plays, and that I wanted to go out there and make plays. I never lost the drive to keep working.”
Healy has been consistently making plays all season, most notably in that Maine South game, where he finished with
seven catches for 70 yards. He also had a nine-catch, 148-yard, one-touchdown-performance in a 56-34 win over Niles West on Sept. 25.
Even Healy’s stats against New Trier (4 catches, 87 yards) were a bit misleading. Twice, New Trier defensive backs were called for pass interference against Healy, including one where Trevians talented defen-sive back Francis Fay tackled Healy to prevent what very likely would have been a 50-yard touchdown catch.
There was one stretch late in the second quarter when Healy seemed impossible to defend, catching consecutive passes of 15, 30 and 14 yards on a drive that resulted in a Titans’ touch-down, which brought them to within 14-7 at halftime.
“(Healy) is a very good re-ceiver and runs very good routes,” said Fay, who said he was a little surprised the Titans only threw in Healy’s direction four times in the second half. “Our biggest emphasis was to get hands on (Healy) and be physi-cal, especially against someone who has a height advantage on you.”
The Trevians had been well aware of Healy going into the game, using 6-4 senior receiver Calvin Montgomery to mimic the Titans’ big pass catcher in practice.
In recent months, several Di-vision III football programs also have had Healy on their radar screens, with programs like Il-linois Wesleyan and DePauw showing interest.
Healy said Glenbrook South assistant Dave Schoenwetter, a former quarterback at Division III Knox College, is helping with the recruiting process.
It’s a process, Healy admits, still in its early stages due to his relatively recent emergence as a major receiving threat.
“Last year, I really didn’t even think I would be in this posi-tion,” Healy said.
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Scoreboard WatchingROAMING THE SIDELINES | FOOTBALL
Loyola vs. St. Rita: Loyola quarterback Emmett Clifford had himself a day.
And so did Thomas Smart, David Terrell, Eric Eshoo, Jonah Issac, Dara Laja and Frank Doherty.
The St. Rita end zone was a popular place for the Ramblers (8-0) on National Boss Day (Oct. 16). In a 56-14 win over the Mustangs (3-5), Clifford completed 21 of 25 passes for 299 yards with no interceptions. He ended up tossing six touchdowns in this Chicago Catholic League Blue contest.
Smart (7 catches, 82 yards) hauled in a 13-yard TD pass to open the game’s scoring. He added a second TD catch (9 yards) a few minutes later.
Terrell, son of ex-Bears wide-out David Terrell, caught a 24-yard TD pass in the first quarter. He ended up with three catches for 56 yards.
Eshoo came up with a 33-yard TD reception midway through the second quarter. He made four catches for 74 yards.
Issac’s day featured seven catches for a team-best 87 yards. He caught two TD catches (37 and 6 yards) in the third quarter.
LA also had a pretty impressive ground game. Laja ran the ball 18 times for 177 yards. His long run went for 60 yards. His TD run went for six yards just before halftime.
Laja, who has accumulated 852 yards this fall, needs less than 100 yards (91, to be exact) to become the school’s all-time rushing leader.
Meanwhile, LA outside linebacker Frank Doherty also reached the end zone for the second time in two weeks. He returned a fumble 19 yards. A week earlier against DePaul Prep, he returned a blocked kick 40 yards.
THE RUNDOWN | BOYS CROSS COUNTRY
CSL South Meet: Senior Josh Derrick took first place and led New Trier to a first-place showing at the CSL South Meet at Glenbrook South on Oct. 17. The Trevians tallied 22 points to comfortably beat Maine South (49) and Glenbrook South (65).
Derrick cruised the three-mile layout in 15:00.31. He was followed in by teammates Warren Blood (3rd, 15:15.24), Jack Litowitz (5th, 15:23.52), Ted Oh (6th, 15:29.63), Alex Burck (7th, 15:29.67), Patrick Norrick (8th, 15:34.34) and Will Taylor (12th, 15:41.50). All seven made all-conference.
Sophomore Jordan Theriault paced GBS by taking 10th in 15:38.15, one spot ahead of teammate Alec Sanchez (11th, 15:38.16). Matt Jortberg (13th, 15:46.63) and Charith Wickrema (14th, 15:47.58) earned all-CSL South recognition. Jack Whetstone (17th, 15:53.37) rounded out GBS’s top five.
CSL North Meet: Highlighted by Brett Davidson’s second-place finish, Highland Park cruised to the team title at the CSL North Meet at Glenbrook South on Oct. 17 with 37 points. Niles North came in second with 62 points.
Davidson ran the three miles in 14:47.03 and beat everyone except his archrival: Niles North’s Martin Barr (14:46.53). Glenbrook North’s Nate Whitfield placed fourth (15:24.73) behind Maine East’s Torrain Haughton (15:18.01).
Davidson, a senior, was backed up nicely by five other all-conference performers: freshman Jose Reyes (6th, 15:31.53), junior Charlie Skurie (8th, 15:36.79), sophomore Alec Glazier (9th, 15:43.44), junior Jon Rosenfeld (12th, 15:51.71) and sophomore Nate Amster (13th, 15:56.06). Sophomore Fitz Laurie (15th, 16:04.42) just missed earning all-CSL North recognition.
Chicago Catholic League Meet: Loyola’s Paolo Tiong-son continued his fine season by earning runner-up honors in the CCL Meet in Romeoville on Oct. 17. The junior ran a 14:54.3 to finish 4.1 seconds off the pace of St. Ignatius’ Daniel Santino (14:50.2).
The Ramblers finished second as a team (54 points). Marmion Academy took the crown with 42 points.
LA’s other top finishers were Patrick Reilly-Hayward (8th, 15:22.5), Andrew Niewiarowski (13th, 15:30.0), Connor Hoag (15th, 15:34.3) and Matthew Kadus (16th, 15:35.2).
THE RUNDOWN | GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY
CSL South Meet: New Trier junior Grace Fagan ran the race of her life as she claimed top honors in the CSL South Meet at Glenbrook South on Oct. 17. She finished the three miles in 17:37.39, which was a 32-second PR.
The Trevians, who claimed the title with 20 points, also had inspiring efforts from junior Caroline Fix (2nd, 17:48.20), freshman Caroline Trukenbrod (4th, 17:55.62), sophomore Savannah Noethlich (6th, 18:01.73), junior Molly Schmidt (7th, 18:08.79), senior Kelli Schmidt (9th, 18:15.08) and sophomore Rachel Weix (11th, 18:21.43). The top 14 in each division earn all-conference recog-nition.
Glenbrook South scored 97 points to finish fourth behind Maine South (50) and Evanston (92). Sopho-more Lizzy Shaw came in 12th in 18:22.92. Sophomore Emily Noone was 18th. Junior Amelia Papajohn was 19th.
CSL North Meet: Senior Charlotte Nawor shook off injuries and raced to a first-place finish in the CSL North Meet at Glenbrook South on Oct. 17. She was clocked in 18:00.93, which was 42 seconds better than the runner-up: Deerfield’s Kelley Osborn.
Nawor’s performance paved the way for a decisive team victory for the Giants (22 points). Glenbrook North wound up second with 70 points.
HP’s No. 2 runner was senior Marni Pine, who came in third in 18:59.64. The other all-conference runners were junior Veronica Kriss (5th, 19:18.20), senior Rachel Powers (6th, 19:30.72), junior Amanda Hsu (7th, 19:31.60) and sophomore Kaitlyn Twadell (8th, 19:40.62).
GBN received strong all-CSL North showings from sophomore Emma Cintado (4th, 19:17.02) and senior Lanie Gruemmer (10th, 19:53.60). Julia Moore (17th), Josey Hill (18th) and Heather Schlitz (21st) rounded out the scoring. Jessica Lee helped out with a 22nd-place finish.
GCAC Meet: Loyola placed five runners in the top 16 to capture first place in the GCAC Meet at Lewis Uni-versity on Oct. 17. Led by Kathryn House (6th, 18:11.6), Lainey McKinley (7the, 18:13.1) and Margot Dooley (8th, 18:13.6), the Ramblers tallied 49 points to win the meet going away over Montini Catholic (87 points).
LA also received solid work from Payton Hoag (12th, 18:25.9) and Annie Foley (16th, 18:49.2).
DROP SHOTS | GIRLS TENNIS
Glenbrook South Sectional: One of the headliners at the GBS Sectional on Oct. 16-17 was the Glenbrook North sister tandem of junior Colette O’Regan and
sophomore Catherine O’Regan. The duo claimed a sectional title by downing Maine South’s Kamila Czos-nyka and Marti Wind in the final.
GBN finished second (23 points) in the team stand-ings behind Maine South (30). Glenbrook South was third with 21 points.
GBN’s other state qualifiers include the doubles team of juniors Hailey Koretz and Caroline Chatas, who placed fourth, and freshman singles Grace Chatas, who took third.
GBS advances sophomore Kendall Oldham in singles (4th) and doubles team of juniors Nikol Blinov and Sophie Hensley (3rd).
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Class AA State Meet: Loyola came home with the second-place trophy for the third year in a row, when the Ramblers scored a 635 at the Class AA State Meet at Hickory Point Golf Club in Decatur on Oct. 16-17. Hinsdale Central shot a 617 to repeat as state champs.
Sophomore Nina Rutkowski had the top score (156, tied for 13th) for Loyola. She was followed in by junior Margaret Hickey (158, tied for 16th), senior Blake Yaccino (160, 25th), junior Kellie McCabe (165, 40th), senior Madison Banas (167, tied for 46th) and senior Nicole Wetoska (168, tied for 51st).
Glenbrook North senior Amy Hong carded a 158 to share 16th place, while junior teammate Emma Vickery came in with a 161 (tied for 26th).
Glenbrook North’s Emma Cintado races to a fourth-place finish in the CSL North race. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
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Charlie Nikitas was a junior at the Class 3A state golf meet this time, wiser, more
comfortable, familiar with the surroundings and the hazards and the vibe. It certainly showed last weekend at The Den at Fox Creek Golf Course in Bloomington. The evidence was right there on his scorecard, smaller numbers pro-ducing a significant result at a significant tournament.
The Glenbrook South Titan finished in a tie for 67th (85-78) at state last fall.
Nikitas placed sixth (76-77), an all-state place, in windy, chilly conditions this fall. Champion Justin Hemings, a senior at Ed-wardsville High School, shot a 74-71 at the par-72 venue on Oct. 16-17.
“I sort of learned how things go there, what to expect,” Nikitas, the lone Glenbrook South state qualifier, said of what he took from his experience at the 2014 state meet. “I used that knowledge. I handled the pressure better this time.”
Only two other Titans in program history had finished higher at a state meet than Nikitas did. Mark Holton topped the 1992 field at the Class AA meet, and Quinn Prchal took fourth at the 3A meet in 2011.
Nikitas was tied for ninth place after the first round on Oct. 16. He birdied the par-five ninth hole, giving him a one-over 37 at the turn. He birdied the par-three 17th, halting a string of four bogeys. In the second round he went par-par-par-par-par on his
final five holes. Steely, steady.“Charlie was consistent,” Titans
golf coach Steve Gale said. “He was unflappable.”
Nikitas’ ball striking was strik-ing, having hit, he figured, at least 15 greens in regulation on each day. Nearly every Nikitas drive rested on a fairway. His putter, though, bit him here, stung him there. His putt total was 37 on Friday, 38 on Saturday.
“Overall,” he summed, “a pretty solid weekend.”
His parents, Danny and Mar-
garet, walked all 36 holes last weekend, following their favorite golfer around the Arnold Palmer Signature layout. Both, like all spectators, were not allowed to offer advice. Nikitas instead re-ceived nods and fist bumps from his father.
Nikitas’ plan early this week was to take a few days off from golf and make up the school work he missed because of his postsea-son success. He’ll get the itch, no doubt, to whack tee shots again later this month. Birds like to fly;
Nikitas likes to shoot for birdies.“I’ll be out there on a course,
as long as it’s not snowing,” he said.
If it is, there’s always the Nikitas garage. The car abode doubles as a hitting area, home to a net, a big mat and a simula-tor. Nikitas often works on his putting in the basement at home.
“I’ll work on all aspects of my game this winter,” Nikitas said, adding he’ll likely play in an Arizona tournament in December.
GLENBROOK SOUTH’S NIKITAS CLAIMS ALL-STATE HONORSBY BILL MCLEAN, [email protected]
SUNDAY BREAKFAST
30 | SATURDAY OCTOBER 17 | SUNDAY OCTOBER 18 2015 THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
BY SIMON MURRAY
I t was a brisk fall morning when Jack Greenberg and his wife, Donna, agreed to meet me for
breakfast at Country Kitchen in Highland Park. Once inside, we were seated at a wooden booth.
Green clovers ran zigzag along the wallpaper. Every once in a while the clink of silverware on glass announced a toast that never came. The server that took our order wore overalls.
She returned with an armada of plates: large ones, small ones, ones carrying toast, ones with jam, English muffins, eggs—they kept coming. She even by acci-dent gave us another table’s order, so possessed was she in her desire to completely cover our table in plates. If the Green-berg’s were concerned, they certainly didn’t show it. Jack, who was eating one of their cranium-sized omelets, alter-nately sipped on a coffee; Donna had scrambled eggs.
A galaxy of plates lay before us, with constellations branching into infinity.
They had both received a warm welcome from the staff at Country Kitchen. The reason: the couple has lived in town for 38 years and come often. I dug deeper. Jack relented that, during his tenure as CEO of McDon-ald’s, he took a superstar basket-ball player out for a late business breakfast to Country Kitchen. (Hint: his initials are MJ.)
However the biggest celeb-rity he ever met was a 65 million year old carnivore, who just so happened to be the catalyst behind his philanthropic in-volvement with Chicago’s Field Museum.
There is no way the dinosaur nicknamed “Sue” could’ve been more popular in her lifetime. She certainly couldn’t have had more suitors. After her remains were
uncovered in the Badlands of South Dakota, seized by FBI agents and the National Guard, and eventually deposited at So-theby’s in New York—every natural history museum had come calling. To date she is the largest, most complete, best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered; and back then ev-e r y o n e wanted her.
The Field Museum had to act fast. They couldn’t come up with the funds alone, so they sent envoys in person to companies and private citizens. Luckily, one of these fortuitous delegates ended up across from Jack Greenberg’s desk. At the time, Jack was in a lofty position that could theoretically offer assis-tance—as president of McDon-ald’s USA.
On October 4, 1997 the auction began. Less than 10 minutes later, The Field Museum purchased Sue for $8.4 million with the help of McDonald’s, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, and other corporations and in-stitutions. She’s now, of course, on permanent display inside the museum—all 42 feet long from snout to tail of her.
“Nobody had any budget for [it],” said Jack—now retired—recalling the conversation he had all those years ago. “Nobody budgets to buy a dinosaur.”
Since helping to secure a do-nation for Sue, the Greenbergs have been philanthropically as-sociated with the Field Museum. Donna was recruited by one of her friends, and now sits on the Women’s Board. Jack has served on the Board of Trustees, with brief stints as member of the Field Museum’s Audit Commit-tee and Executive Committee.
On Friday, October 23—or when this paper is published—the Women’s Board will host its 49th annual gala, “The Wonders of China,” which will celebrate the Cyrus Tang Hall of China, the Field Museum’s newest per-
manent exhibit. (The black tie event is being chaired this year by Donna.) Attendees will mingle under Sue’s banana-long serrated teeth, and eat dinner next to the fighting African elephants in Stanley Field Hall.
Underneath their feet, several floors down, attendees will un-knowingly (or knowingly) be standing above over 24 million meticulously arranged and labeled specimens that The Field Museum has collected, stored, and preserved over the years. The proceeds from the gala will support The Field Museum’s public learning and research programs, which, in turn, will ensure such important research can continue.
As of last Monday, Donna and the Women’s Board—with
the help of the Board of Trust-ees—had raised over $1.8 million. Not enough, maybe, to buy a dinosaur; but certainly en route to help bolster the pro-grams that the museum depends on.
“It’s good—you feel good when you accomplish some-
thing and help them in that way,” said Donna.
Together, the philanthropic couple also oversees The Donna and Jack Greenberg Charitable
Trust, which is a major sup-porter of educational
projects in and around Chicago, including Jack’s alma mater—DePaul University. The Greenberg’s endow the
school’s College of Edu-cation, specifically a
program called “Facing History and Ourselves” that helps teachers deal with issues
of tolerance and social justice in schools.When the couple first met,
Jack came from the south side, Donna from the north. “And we met in the middle,” said Jack. They met in a jewelry store on Jeweler’s Row. “She thought I owned a part of the store and I thought she could afford the merchandise.”
Now the Greenberg’s are one of the most active philanthrop-ic couples in the city. Donna sits on too many boards to count, and Jack serves on both DePaul’s Board of Trustees and is chair-man of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority Board of Directors, after being recom-mended for the role by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn four years ago.
On the second floor of the Field Museum, encased in glass, a disembodied T. rex head is barring her teeth. Or perhaps, just maybe, she’s smiling a toothy grin.
HOW A FORMER MCDONALD’S CEO HELPED BRING “SUE” THE DINOSAUR
TO THE FIELD MUSEUM
Jack and Donna Greenberg | Illustration by Barry Blitt
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