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12 | December 27, 2018 | The lake forest leader school
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Lake Forest Hospital names new chief of medical staff
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Northwestern Medicine
Lake Forest Hospital
When she was elected
Chief of the Medical Staff
at Northwestern Medicine
Lake Forest Hospital earlier
this fall, Jill Holden,
MD, became the first
woman to hold the position.
“I never thought of myself
as being a symbol,”
said Holden, who is a
partner in a private Obstetrics
and Gynecology
practice in Lake Forest
for 26 years and a Lake
Forest resident. “I just
thought it was my turn to
do the work. But I think I
Holden
am a symbol, because nobody
has been down this
road before.”
Michael Bauer, MD,
medical director at Lake
Forest Hospital, has
worked with Holden since
she arrived in the north
suburbs.
“This was a long time
coming,” Bauer said, but
adds that gender was not
a factor in Holden’s selection.
“Jill was picked for her
leadership abilities, her
phenomenal reputation
both in the community and
amongst her colleagues,
and in the way she blends
her role as a private practice
physician with advancing
Northwestern
Medicine and championing
what’s best for our patients,”
Bauer said. “The
fact that she is the first female
chief of the medical
staff is groundbreaking,
but it is not why she’s in
this position.”
Holden is a graduate of
University of Illinois and
Kansas University School
of Medicine at University
of Kansas Medical Center
in Kansas City. She
completed her residency
at University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center.
One of her top priorities
as the leader of the medical
staff is to help evolve
the culture at the hospital.
“I have watched medicine
evolve, and I’ve
watched our community
hospital become a stateof-the-art
facility anchoring
the northern suburbs
of a Chicago’s premier
academic health system,”
she said. “We’ve asked
a lot of our physicians
recently as changes can
be frequent and at times
overwhelming. I hope to
help facilitate this transition
as smoothly as possible.”
The word community is
one she most frequently
stresses.
Her proudest achievement,
she says, is raising
her two adult children
— a son who is a teacher
with plans for law school
next year and a daughter
who, after earning an
engineering degree, is
now in her third year of
medical school. Could
her daughter follow in her
footsteps? Holden says
her daughter hasn’t ruled
obstetrics out yet, but she
does see a similar drive in
her to be a leader.
“You evolve the culture
to what it needs to be
within a bigger system,
but it still has a community
to it,” Holden said.
“We have all the resources
that we never would have
imagined before, but we
still need to bring it back
to the community.”
“She never had an attitude
of, ‘You can’t do
things,’” Holden said.
“I’m always amazed
watching her. I guess I
did, too, but you don’t
always see it until you’re
watching someone else.”
THE WINNETKA CURRENT
Winnetka Police respond
to backlash from viral
‘Glitter Bomb’ video
After a YouTube video
that was intended to be
light-hearted went viral
this week, the Winnetka
Police Department has
been under scrutiny after
some viewers have inaccurately
criticized the department
for not responding
to stolen-package
reports.
The video, called
“Package Thief vs. Glitter
Bomb Trap,” was created
by Mark Rober, an American
engineer, inventor and
YouTube personality. The
11-minute video has more
than 36 million views
and is No. 19 in the site’s
trending list as of Dec. 21.
In a tweet on Dec. 17,
Rober released the video
saying, “Someone stole
a package from me. Police
wouldn’t do anything
about it so I spent the last
six months engineering
up some vigilante justice.
Revenge is a dish best
served fabulously.”
As the video plays out,
Rober introduces his bait
bomb inspired by the
movie “Home Alone,”
which was partially filmed
in Winnetka. The bomb
launches a “butt-ton” of
glitter and emits a “fart
spray” after a thief steals
a package left on a front
porch and opens it.
Rober, in the video, uses
Google Maps to show the
route of a stolen package;
however, he uses a map
of Winnetka, showing the
package being stolen from
the “Home Alone” house
on Lincoln Avenue.
The map in the video
features a mock route the
stolen package follows to
a parking garage where it
is left after the glitter explosion.
In response, Winnetka
Police Chief Marc Hornstein
told The Winnetka
Current the jurisdiction in
which the alleged package
theft occurred is not Winnetka.
Reporting by Megan Bernard,
Contributing Editor.
Full story at WinnetkaCurrent.com.
THE HIGHLAND PARK LANDMARK
District 113 plans $9M
summer capital projects
A renovated cafeteria
at Highland Park High
School. A new track at
Deerfield High School.
And revamped athletic
offices at Highland Park
High School.
These are a few of the
capital projects slated
for the summer of 2019
that are estimated to cost
around $9 million, according
to an update given
at Township High School
District 113 board of education
meeting Dec. 17.
The projects come from
the master facility plan the
board accepted in December
of 2012, according
to Benjamin Martindale,
who shares superintendent
duties with Linda Yonke.
“The main item here is
the cafeteria and it’s long
overdue,” Martindale
said at the Dec. 17 meeting.
‘It’s undersized and
it’s old and it just doesn’t
work very well.”
The list of summer capital
projects includes $7.4
million to renovate the
cafeteria at Highland Park
High School and another
$500,000 to renovate the
athletic offices; $56,000
for new P.E. corridor
flooring; and $1 million
for a new storm line, track
and tennis court at Deerfield
High School, along
with the replacement of
baseball backstops at both
high schools.
As Martindale noted,
the projects will be funded
by the $5-million capital
budget for fiscal year
2020, $2.5 million from
leftover funds after successfully
completing all
the referendum projects
(with $1.5 million already
committed towards the
window project), and a
one-time non-recurring
expenditure of $3 million
from the district reserves,
as fiscal year 2018 finished
better than budget.
Reporting by Stephanie Kim,
Freelance Reporter. Full
story at HPLandmark.com.
THE NORTHBROOK TOWER
New owners take over
Northbrook’s Trattoria
Oliverii
When rumor had it that
restaurateur Guido Oliverii
was thinking seriously
about retirement, the opportunity
to take on a new
role at the longtime Northbrook
restaurant Trattoria
Oliverii filled Katie Keefe
with excitement.
The local dining establishment
was recently sold
to Keefe and her partner,
Ali Clark. The restaurant
officially opened under
their new management on
Nov. 6.
Keefe, who has worked
as server, hostess, bartender
and nearly every
job in the restaurant industry
since the opening
of Trattoria Oliverii in
1991, joined forces with
Clark to take ownership
of the restaurant. The two
women have used their
combined experience
and talents to make for a
smooth transition.
“We kind of jumped on
a moving train,” said the
Northbrook native Keefe,
referring to the restaurant
that has been providing
Northern Italian cuisine
for generations. “We’re
not trying to make a lot of
changes. We’re keeping
the same great menu of
Central Italian specialties
and the whole staff stayed
the same. We’re a family
here and we treat our customers
like family. We’re
really lucky — we have a
great team.”
Reporting by Elizabeth Manaster,
Freelance Reporter.
Full story at NorthbrookTowor.com.