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THURSDAY 

Do the Hustle! 

7-8 p.m. June 6, Northbrook 

Public library, 1201 

Cedar Lane. Take a step 

back in time to the 1970s 

when disco clubs were 

all the rage. In this class 

you will feel the Saturday 

Night Fever while you 

learn the Hustle with a 

professional dance instructor 

from Arthur Murray 

Dance Studio. For more 

information, please call 

(847) 272-6224. 

FRIDAY 

St. John’s Boys’ Choir 

7 p.m. Friday, June 7, 

Northfield Community 

Church, 400 Wagner Road. 

The St. John’s Boys’ Choir 

will perform at Northfield 

Community Church. They 

are ambassadors for Minnesota 

and the US having 

toured throughout Europe, 

the Americas and Japan, 

and performed at Notre 

Dame Cathedral in Paris 

and Sagrada Familia in 

Barcelona. 

SATURDAY 

St. Norbert Block Party 

3-11 p.m. Saturday, June 

8, St. Norbert School, 

1809 Walters Ave. Join at 

St. Norbert’s Block Party 

— the best way to kick 

off the summer in Northbrook! 

Fun for the entire 

family, this event is for 

people of all ages. The day 

starts with the 5K Fun Run 

and Kid’s Dash at 8 a.m. 

MONDAY 

The Men of Omaha Beach 

1-2:30 p.m. Monday, 

June 10, Northbrook Public 

Library, 1201 Cedar 

Lane. Commemorating 

the 75th Anniversary of D- 

Day, this lecture paints the 

picture of Omaha Beach 

on June 6, 1944 and provides 

insight into the how 

and where the Normandy 

Invasion took place. For 

more information, please 

call (847) 272-6224. 

TUESDAY 

Tuesdays in the Park 

6:30 p.m. Tuesday, 

June 11, Village Green 

Park, Shermer Road and 

Meadow Road. Join your 

friends and family for free 

outdoor concerts in the 

heart of Northbrook. Visit 

local eateries to check out 

a variety of Tuesday in the 

Park specials. Soda, classic 

and current rock cover 

band will perform. Call 

(847) 291-2995 for more 

information. 

Lunch and Movie: Mary 

Poppins Returns 

Noon-3 p.m. Tuesday, 

June 11, Northbrook Park 

District Senior Center, 

3323 Walters Ave. Emily 

Blunt captivates in this 

entertaining sequel-style 

reboot of the original film. 

Twenty-five years after 

her first visit, Mary Poppins 

is back to help the 

now grown up Banks children 

as they recover from 

a family tragedy. Register 

by June 6 at nbparks.org or 

call (847) 291-2995. 

UPCOMING 

Bocce and BBQ 

Noon-3 p.m. Friday, 

June 14, Indian Ridge Park, 

located behind the Leisure 

Center, 3323 Walters Ave. 

Enjoy an afternoon of BBQ 

and Bocce with the Northbrook 

Park District and 

Sunset Foods’ own Ron 

Bernardi. Register by June 

12 at nbparks.org or call 

(847) 291-2995. Member 

$10/Non-Member $15. 

Opening for Northbrook 

Farmers Market 

7 a.m. Wednesday, June 

19, downtown Northbrook, 

1975 Cherry Lane. 

Wednesdays 7 a.m. to 1 

p.m. June 19 through Oct. 

9 in downtown Northbrook. 

Locally grown 

fresh fruits & vegetables, 

artisan cheeses, fabulous 

bakery items, expert 

knife sharpening and 

much more. Double value 

program for SNAP/Link 

card holders. Handicap 

accessible. 

Kids Duathlon 

6-9 p.m. Friday, June 

21, Ed Rudolph Velodrome 

in Meadowhill Park 

1479 Maple Ave. Test your 

skills at the Northbrook 

Park District’s Kids’ Duathlon. 

The event includes 

biking and running. After 

the event, participants can 

enjoy pizza, drinks and 

admission to Meadowhill 

Aquatic Center. Register 

by June 20 at nbparks.org. 

ONGOING 

Register for Northbrook 

Action Baseball 

Register for Northbrook 

Action Baseball Summer 

League for all boys and 

girls. Season begins July 

8 through Aug. 1. Preschool 

through current 

second-graders. Current 

second-graders will get 

to pitch for the first time. 

Registrations due by June 

1 to guarantee spot. Team 

Or Individual registrations 

accepted. To register or for 

more information visit our 

website northbrookactionbaseball.org 

or call us at 

(847) 564-9849. 

Business Mentoring 

Want to start a business? 

Have a business and are 

struggling with a situation? 

SCORE is a non-profit, 

volunteer organization 

providing free, confidential, 

personalized business 

mentoring. Real world 

advise is provided by experienced, 

retired executives 

and business owners 

helping entrepreneurs and 

small businesses build, 

grow and thrive. Ongoing, 

one-hour sessions are held 

the 1st and 3rd Wednesday 

mornings every month in 

the Northbrook Chamber 

of Commerce offices. Appointments 

can be made 

through scorechicago.org 

or by contacting the chamber 

office or Gary Klow@ 

scorevolunteer.org. 

Take Off Pounds Sensibly 

Want to lose weight? 

Come join TOPS in Northbrook. 

This organization 

offers a healthy, caring, 

supportive approach to 

weight control at an affordable 

price. Chapter IL 847 

Northbrook meets every 

Wednesday for a weighin 

(6:15-6:45 p.m.) and 

meeting (6:45-7:30 p.m.) 

in the back lower level 

of the North Northfield 

United Methodist Church 

at 797 Sanders Road in 

Northbrook (northeast 

corner of Dundee and 

Sanders), Northbrook. 

For more information, call 

(847) 564-3147. 

Israeli Dancing 

7-9:45 p.m., Wednesday 

nights, Bernard Weinger 

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JCC, 300 Revere Drive. 

Join Israeli Dance teachers 

Jim Rust and Harriette 

Leibovitz for a fun dance 

class. Exercise; expand 

your mind; make friends. 

Let yourself be teleported 

briefly to Israel. No partner 

or experience needed, just a 

willingness to have a great 

time. $10/week/person. 

Contact Abby Ashkenazi at 

(847) 763-3627 for more. 

Current Events Club 

Every Tuesday at 1 p.m. 

in the Leisure Center, 

3323 Walters Ave. Join the 

conversation at the Park 

District’s current events 

group. Connect with others 

as you talk about the 

latest topics in the news. 

It’s free to join for Senior 

Center members. Call 

(847) 291-2995 for more. 

Laughter Group 

Are life’s challenges 

bringing you down? Can 

you use a good laugh? 

Join at the FREE Optimists 

Laughter Club 

every Wednesday at 7 

p.m. Laughter Yoga (no 

yoga poses, no comedy 

or jokes!) harnesses the 

power of laughter to uplift 

outlook while relieving 

stress. At Glenbrook 

Hospital’s John and Carol 

Walters Ambulatory Care 

Center, 2180 Pfingsten 

Road, Glenview. Park 

and enter at west end of 

hospital campus. Call 

(847) 571-7553 for more 

information.

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Glenbrook North celebrates Class of 2019 graduates 

Neil Milbert 

Freelance Reporter 

Speaking at the 66th 

annual Glenbrook North 

commencement exercises, 

Samantha Lasky chronicled 

the identity transformation 

from “I to “we” that 

she and the others in the 

Class of 2019 experienced 

during the four years they 

spent at the high school at 

2300 Shermer Road. 

“We did this. We persevered. 

We are the Class 

of 2019,” she said at the 

beginning of her Sunday, 

June 2 address in the Forrest 

S. Sheely Center for 

the Performing Arts that 

was filled to capacity with 

family, friends and faculty. 

“We came here as individuals. 

As time passed 

you saw how our individuality 

transformed into 

a new identity. Look at us 

— how we’ve grown and 

flourished. Notice how our 

14-year-old skin has shed. 

“As we reach the end of 

these four years we have 

to let go of the we that 

we have created. We grew 

up here and we changed 

here.” 

Lasky’s address was 

entitled “Out of 490” 

with 490 indicative of the 

number of graduates. 

The graduation exercises 

began when Glenbrook 

North Orchestra, conducted 

by Aaron Kaplan and 

Kristin Meyer, played the 

traditional processional as 

the 490 Spartans in caps 

and gowns walked down 

the aisles to their seats on 

the stage. 

Next came Lasky’s address 

after which the Glenbrook 

North Choir, under 

the direction of Chad Davidson, 

sang “Don’t Forget 

Where You Belong” 

and Abigail Berkowitz, 

GBN graduates (left to right) Jonathan Gordon, Julianna 

Gordon and Sophie Gould celebrate their graduation. 

For more graduation 

photos, 

please see Page 

8 in this week’s 

issue, or visit Northbrook- 

Tower.com. 

Jamie Rosenberg and Lily 

Rothschild, of the Senior 

Class Board, presented the 

class gift, art works to be 

displayed in the Student 

Activities Center. 

Then, GBN Principal 

Dr. John L. Finan stepped 

to the microphone to 

present the class. 

Finan began his remarks 

by noting that this was the 

final graduation ceremony 

for retiring Glenbrook 

High School District 225 

Superintendent Dr. Mike 

Riggle, who has had a distinguished 

20-year career 

in the district, first as GBN 

principal for 11 years and 

then as superintendent. 

Finan went on to enumerate 

the many accomplishments 

of members of the 

class in academic and 

athletic endeavors. 

Dr. Riggle followed with 

his “Acceptance of the 

Class of 2019” remarks. 

“These Spartans have 

forged a legacy that will 

long be remembered and 

admired,” he told the audience. 

“Each of them now 

stands ready to leave GBN 

and face the future.” 

Speaking to the graduates, 

Dr. Riggle said: “The 

path you now follow will 

be one of your own making 

rather than one that has 

been shaped by others.” 

He concluded by quoting 

Dr. Martin Luther 

King: “The time is always 

right to do what is right.” 

Diplomas then were 

presented by District 225 

Board of Education President 

Bruce Doughty and 

board members Karen 

Hanley, Dr. Marcelo Sztainberg 

and Joel Taub. 

When the board president 

presented a diploma 

to Connor William 

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Northbrook Village Board 

Northbrook Court redevelopment up for final vote June 11 

Chris Pullam 


The Northbrook Court 

redevelopment project is 

now one vote away from 

approval. 

During its Tuesday, May 

28 meeting, the Northbrook 

Village Board voted 

6-1 to have village staff 

draw up final approval 

documents, which will 

be considered during the 

board’s Tuesday, June 11 

meeting. Only Trustee Jason 

Han, who so far has 

voted against every action 

supporting the redevelopment, 

opposed the motion. 

The proposed mixeduse 

redevelopment plan 

for the west end of the 

Northbrook Court Shopping 

Center, located at 

1315-1825 Lake Cook 

Road, would include up 

to 315 luxury apartments 

in a five-story residential 

structure, which would sit 

atop two levels of indoor 

parking containing 432 

parking stalls for the residential 

building. It would 

also house a grocery store 

and several restaurant and 

retail spaces. 

The applicant, Northbrook 

Anchor Acquisition, 

also proposed approximately 

106,000 square feet 

of new retail development, 

as well as redevelopment 

of approximately 72,000 

square feet of the west end 

of the existing shopping 

center, where Macy’s currently 

connects to the mall. 

The project includes 

a reconfiguration of the 

road that loops around the 

Northbrook Court, with 

the inclusion of a dedicated 

bike lane in a portion of 

the roadway area adjacent 

to the residential portion of 

the redevelopment. 

Northbrook residents 

ROUND IT UP 

A brief recap of Village Board action on Tuesday, 

May 28: 

• The Village Board authorized an agreement for 

fire hydrant painting with Alpha Paintworks, of Chicago, 

in the three-year total amount of $109,200. 

• Trustees approved an agreement with Preform 

Traffic Control Systems for pavement marking 

services. 

• The Board supported a $3,940 contract with 

Raynor Door Company, of Northfield, for overhead 

door maintenance services. 

spent nearly two hours addressing 

the board about 

the proposal. 

“You can vote no… 

[but then] what happens?” 

asked resident Mike Scolaro, 

a former Village Board 

trustee. “Nothing. We have 

a big sign if you go past 

Northbrook Court right 

now that says ‘going out of 

business’ at Macy’s. That 

sign will be replaced by 

nothing. It will be replaced 

by a building that will be 

torn down or vacant. There 

won’t be cars in front of it. 

There will be less cars at 

Northbrook Court, less tax 

collections and further loss 

of a Class-A mall.” 

While many speakers 

agreed with him, several 

supported the general plan 

while opposing specific 

details, such as the location 

of the grocery store 

or the size of the setbacks, 

which would situate an 

80-foot-tall building only 

100 feet away from private 

backyards. 

One fix, favored by resident 

Leonard Ginzburg, is 

to utilize the applicant’s 

alternative plan that places 

the grocery store farther 

away from private 

properties. 

“I think the presentation 

the applicant has provided 

you is basically a smokeand-mirrors 

game,” he 

During its Tuesday, May 28 meeting, the Northbrook Village Board voted 6-1 to 

have village staff draw up final approval documents for a massive proposed 

redevelopment of Northbrook Court, which will likely be considered during the 

board’s Tuesday, June 11 meeting. Rendering Courtesy of the Village of Northbrook 

said. “They want the grocery 

store to be visible 

from Lake Cook Road … 

but not a single time has 

the applicant said who is 

actually interested in [that 

space] or if they have a letter 

of intent. Multiple grocery 

stores in the area have 

gone bankrupt, so who 

wants to build there? 

“… They have secondary 

plans to redesign 

the property if a grocer 

doesn’t come in, and if it 

doesn’t come in, there’s 

no need for it to be on the 

north side of the property 

in the first place.” 

Previously, during their 

April 23 meeting, trustees 

preemptively created 

a Tax Increment Financing 

District to support the 

proposed redevelopment. 

Only Han opposed that 

action. 

If the redevelopment is 

eventually approved, the 

overall property value of 

Northbrook Court would 

increase following the upgrades, 

causing its property 

taxes to increase. By 

creating a TIF District 

around the mall, trustees 

would be subsidizing construction 

costs by waving 

only the additional taxes 

over a 23-year period. 

Either the Village Board 

or Plan Commission could 

still scrap the actual project, 

according to Village 

Attorney Steve Elrod, if 

the trustees and commissioners 

are unable to come 

to an agreement with the 

developer. If that were to 

happen, the TIF would continue 

to exist as a potential 

draw to other developers. 

Currently, a redevelopment 

agreement is being 

drafted that sets forth the 

terms for the $21.5 million 

in TIF financing in 

a “pay-as-you-go” format. 

The TIF agreement 

will also include requirements 

that the developer 

make various school district 

payments, including 

a one-time supplemental 

impact fee of $95,000 to 

Glenbrook High Schools 

District 225 and $225,000 

to Northbrook School 

District 28. 

Another section of the 

redevelopment agreement 

will establish the terms 

and conditions of the $5.5 

million that would come 

from a sales tax rebate. 

The sales tax rebate would 

come from increased sales 

tax revenues generated 

from Northbrook Court 

following the redevelopment 

of the property. 

These funds would be 

used to improve the existing 

shopping center. Sales 

taxes collected above the 

pre-established base sales 

tax collection amount of 

$4,425,000 — the estimated 

2017 sales tax receipts 

from the existing mall, 

plus $425,000 to account 

for future Village fire, 

EMS and police services 

in the center — would be 

split on a 50/50 basis with 

the developer and the Village 

until the sales tax 

incentive amount is paid 

or 20 years, whichever 

occurs first. 

In defending the TIF, 

Trustee Kathryn Ciesla 

argued that Northbrook 

Court “is one of our strongest 

economic engines” 

and provides approximately 

30 percent of the 

village’s tax revenue. 

“I know this mall cannot 

continue as a 1970sera 

center,” she said. “It 

needs to evolve or it will 

simply decline. We’ve 

known Macy’s is going 

out of business for a long 

time. … It’s unrealistic to 

assume that another largescale 

retail tenant will fill 

that space, so it’s mostly 

likely the building would 

come down or stay fallow 

for a long time.” 

Following prior public 

comments requesting the 

incorporation of affordable 

housing, Northbrook 

Anchor Acquisition agreed 

to provide $750,000 in 

seed money to help enact 

a village-wide affordable 

housing plan if the Village 

Board approves such an 

ordinance down the road. 

But the compromise 

didn’t appease Han. 

“I don’t support the idea 

of an affordable housing 

fund,” he said. “I support 

affordable housing, but we 

don’t have a plan yet. We 

don’t have anything that 

will address the $750,000. 

What would we do with 

it? How would we implement 

the fund? I think this 

only encourages future developers 

to pay this fee in 

lieu of developing actual 

affordable housing … I 

support developing actual 

affordable housing.”



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George 

The Hochberg family, of Northbrook 

Hats off, Class of 2019 

Nearly 500 Spartans graduate Sunday, June 2 

George is a golden retriever who 

will be 2 at the end of July. He is 

the sweetest boy who likes to spend 

hours sitting in our front window 

pretending he is a cat. He idolizes 

his big brother Sparty and loves to play with him 

any chance he can (or Sparty will allow). We think 

George hears voices in our house other than ours, 

since he barks at the air all the time. His all time 

favorite thing to do is play with and chew up cardboard 

boxes, and sit inside big plastic boxes and 

laundry baskets (both of which he is too big for, 

but don’t tell him that)! 

Glenbrook North Band Director Daniel Briggs (right center) 

and members of GBN’s band pose for a photo Sunday, 

June 2, prior to the start of the school’s graduation 

ceremony. Photos by Scott Margolin/22nd Century 

Graduates (left to right) Abigail Berkowitz, Jamie 

Rosenberg and Lily Rothschild present the Class of 

2019’s class gift at graduation. 

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GBN Class of 2019 graduates show off their diplomas. 

GBN principal Dr. John L. Finan addresses the Class 

of 2019. 

graduates 

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moment. 

After all of the graduates 

received their diplomas the 

Glenbrook North Choir 

sang the school’s alma mater 

and the ceremony concluded 

with the playing of 

the recessional by the Glenbrook 

North Orchestra. 

A portion of the commencement 

program was 

devoted to citing graduates 

who were Illinois State 

Scholars, members of the 

National Honor Society, 

Glenbrook Scholars, National 

Merit Scholarship 

honorees, Advanced Honors 

Research participants 

and Outstanding Boy and 

Girl finalists. 

Daniel Brodson was 

selected the Outstanding 

Boy and Maddy Bayzae 

the Outstanding Girl.



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school has prepared them 

for their future. 

“I think Loyola has definitely 

prepared all of us 

very well for our future, 

whatever that is for each 

of us,” she said. “Just 

with the level of coursework 

and the relationships 

we’ve made with teachers, 

we’ve all kind of been 

able to just be better people 

and be more prepared 

for whatever it is that 

we’re heading, or whatever 

path we’re heading 

on. Especially for me, I’m 

planning on going into the 

medical field, so I think 

Loyola’s science department 

has really prepared 

me and students like that 

to get into that, to get into 

that field and to know and 

to be prepared for the level 

of work that will come 

with that.” 

The Loyola class 

of 2019 faced a number 

of hardships that 

other schools may not 

go through, including a 

change in leadership as 

Charlie Heintz took over 

as principal after the resignation 

of Dr. Kathryn 

Baal. 

Since then, Heintz has 

been named the school’s 

full-time principal and 

looks to lead the Academy 

into the future. 

This year’s class is the 

first that has seen multiple 

years of the LA Way 

program, a program that 

is designed in developing 

leadership skills, a 

program started last year. 

Heintz made sure to 

spotlight the college 

counseling department, 

especially Jamie Simon, 

who has been key with 

working in the Chicago 

Scholars Program. Loyola 

became involved with the 

program, one that is a cooperative 

group between 

colleges and universities 

and under represented minority 

students who live in 

the city of Chicago. Students 

who are identified 

as college scholars and 

meet those requirements 

can go and in a short interview 

format with a variety 

of schools, generally 

get determinations on admissions 

and levels of financial 

aid, if not that day 

within a very short period 

of time. This year around 

25 students were named 

Chicago Scholars. 

Heintz noted that of the 

493 graduating seniors, 

they are attending 131 different 

colleges. Nearly 90 

percent were accepted to 

either their first or second 

choice school. And 146 

were accepted to every 

school they applied to. 

The student leadership, 

led by senior student 

council president 

and Northbrook resident 

Samantha Mallahan, felt 

that they were heard in 

everything they wanted to 

accomplish this year and 

that goes back to the administration 

and faculty’s 

willingness to listen to 

them. 

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things is that I think all 

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75 years after D-Day, local WWII vets discuss military service 

Alan P. Henry 


Seventy five years ago 

this week, on June 6, 1944, 

more than 160,000 Allied 

troops took part in history’s 

largest amphibious 

invasion, landing along a 

50-mile stretch of heavily 

fortified coastline in Normandy, 

France to press 

the fight against Nazi 

Germany. 

More than 5,000 ships 

and 13,000 aircraft supported 

the D-Day invasion, 

and by day’s end 

the launch of “Operation 

Overlord” had secured a 

foothold in Europe. More 

than 4,000 Allied soldiers 

were killed or wounded 

on that day alone, but 

their sacrifice made possible 

the inexorable advance 

of Allied forces 

across Europe to crush the 

German army. 

The American fighting 

forces that defeated tyranny 

across the globe during 

WWII are now at least 

in their 90s. According to 

the U.S. Department of 

Veterans Affairs, roughly 

400 veterans will die each 

day this year, and of the 

16 million Americans who 

fought in World War II, an 

estimated 390,000 are still 

alive today. 

Three of those war and 

life-hardened veterans, all 

now living at Covenant 

Village in Northbrook, 

gathered recently with The 

Northbrook Tower to talk 

about their service to the 

nation. 

As an aviation ordnanceman 

(AO) in the 

Navy, Ken Johnson was 

skilled in the high-risk job 

of handling and servicing 

weapons and ammunition 

carried on Navy aircraft. 

Following training, he 

was sent to the Naval air 

station in Beaufort, South 

Carolina, home to two 

squadrons of Lockheed 

PV-2 bombers that were 

used to patrol the Atlantic 

for German submarines. 

There, he was part of a 

five-man team that trained 

new crew members. 

As with many who 

served in World War II, 

life had not been easy during 

the Depression but 

they’d made the best of it. 

“It was hard to get work, 

but all our neighbors were 

like that, too. It was not an 

affluent time to live. We 

were poor but we didn’t 

know it,” said Johnson, 95, 

who went on to become 

a tool engineer for a toy 

company. 

It was also a generation 

that had an abiding love of 

country and great sense of 

patriotism. 

“In school the teachers 

read the Bible, we would 

salute the flag, we sang 

patriotic songs,” Johnson 

said. “My father was in 

World War I, so he used 

to talk about it and he 

would be in parades so 

we thought a lot about our 

country. We were taught to 

appreciate the country that 

we lived in and be thankful 

for that.” 

As news of the D-Day 

invasion spread, there was 

a renewed wave of optimism 

among the troops, 

Johnson recalled. 

“We knew that maybe 

the war could be brought 

to an end and we could 

be going home and being 

with our families.” 

Victor Osborn served in 

1945 aboard a Navy cargo 

ship in the South Pacific 

that delivered supplies to 

the Philippines. 

“I really enjoyed it,” Osborn 

recalled. “I liked the 

neatness and the cleanliness 

and the orderliness. 

There were white walls every 

place on the ship, and 

guys walking around with 

a can of cleanser and when 

Northbrook World War II veterans (left to right) Victor Osborn, Ken Johnson and Aleck Johnsen pose for a photo 

after discussing their service time with The Tower, 75 years after D-Day. Alan P. Henry/22nd Century Media 

they saw fingerprints they 

took them off the walls. 

The one unpleasant thing 

about it was the bell went 

off so early in the morning. 

About half a hour before 

the sun was supposed to 

come up we had to go get 

on the guns.” 

In hindsight, Johnson 

also came to understand 

“why I was so anxious to 

get out. I realized that you 

didn’t have any freedom to 

go wherever you wanted to 

go.” 

Was the 92-year-old 

longtime Northbrook resident 

and Commonwealth 

Edison lineman ever 

scared? 

“No,” he laughed. “I 

was only 18 years old and 

18 year olds don’t have a 

brain in their head.” 

Like most World War 

II veterans, Osborn was 

caught up in the patriotism 

of it all, too. 

“Everybody wanted to 

go into the service and 

serve,” he said. I didn’t 

know one guy I went to 

school with who wasn’t 

looking forward to the day 

that it would be time for 

him to go. We were all really 

into it. We had some 

really terrible foes.” 

In turn, it was also 

a time when the civilian 

population returned 

that service with respect 

and admiration, Osborn 

said. 

“I remember when I was 

discharged and I was riding 

the train home on the 

electric North Shore line, 

people wanted to get up 

and give me their seat,” he 

said. “It was nothing like 

the poor guys who came 

home from Vietnam. It 

was terrible the way they 

were treated when they 

came come. It wasn’t their 

idea to be there but they 

did the job that had to be 

done. There wasn’t that 

kind of reception for the 

guys who fought in Korea 

either. My next younger 

brother, he went through 

hell in Korea.” 

Aleck Johnsen was expecting 

a grand adventure 

when he signed up for the 

Air Corps in 1943. 

“I never thought of any 

danger,” he said. “I was 

going to be a pilot and go 

over to Germany and drop 

bombs. And I was never 

going to get shot down.” 

Over many months 

of training, the 94-yearold 

Rockford native and 

retired grocery chain office 

manager shuttled around 

between Missouri, Texas, 

Illinois, Arizona and 

California. 

“It was always delay, 

delay, delay. We were 

all eager to advance, but 

we never got advanced 

training,” he said. “Then 

they dropped the bomb 

on Hiroshima and they 

discharged me.” 

For his brother-in-law, 

96-year-old Bill Heer, 

it was a different story. 

Heer fought door to door 

in the Battle of Bulge, 

and had gruesome tales to 

tell when it was all over, 

Johnsen said. 

“War is so sad,” Johnsen 

said. “They are young, and 

they are shooting at us, and 

we are young and we shoot 

them. It is so stupid.”



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get freedom to kind of 

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of us taking the bigger 

role really helped.” 

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we form. Friendship 

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small moments: actions, 

deeds, gestures ... they 

transform the ordinary 

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bought for $3.76 million, 

more than $250,000 over 

the asking price, from the 

city in January 2018 by 

developers Albion Jacobs 

Highland Park, LLC. 

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has given back to 

engagement. Northbrook. He certainly 

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probably he came rolling from and your he has 

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heart is in Northbrook. 

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to examine exhibits and 

gather public feedback. 

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Home sweet home After previous closure, 5B2F Akira Sushi 

returns to Wilmette community, Page 30 

Eataco Taco and Tequila Bar set to open this month in downtown Northbrook, Page 27 

Pictured is the interior design of Eataco Taco and Tequila Bar, a new Mexican restaurant set to open this month at 1350 Shermer Road in 

downtown Northbrook. Martin Carlino/22nd Century Media

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north shore puzzler CROSSWORD & Sudoku 

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1. Cul-de-__ 

4. Thin flat strip 

8. Glencoe restaurateur 

who was on 

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goes with 22 across 

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15. Viva ___ 

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22. See 8 across 

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Big ___ 

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reflection ...” 

36. Blubber 

37. Beatty or 

Flanders 

38. Danish city 

41. Cheers 

43. Actress, West 

44. Motor mechanics’ 

org. 

45. Continental 

currency 

46. Band that sang 

“When You Were 

Young” 

49. Single 

52. Limited allotment 

53. They may be 

smoked or pickled 

55. Popular wine 

bar in Glencoe 

58. White, in chess 

59. Sausage 

64. Word with “up” 

or “out” 

66. Sch. on the 

Charles 

67. “Maybe” 

68. School for a 

future ens. 

69. Smashing Pumpkins 

“___ Adore” 

70. Easily tamed birds 

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1. Arose 

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3. Breath sweetener 

4. A Law and Order 

version 

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to a poet 

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org. 

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perception 

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grower 

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27. Hesitant 

expression 

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marshal 

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qualification 

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show 

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of sports scenes 

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Streisand 

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smart card 

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9 a.m. and 5 p.m. 

2019 Memorial Day 

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10 a.m. and 6 p.m. 

North Shore Senior 

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Eataco is Northbrook’s newest restaurant 

Martin Carlino, Editor 

Kadir Cicek and Javier Alvarez 

first conceptualized the vision 

for Eataco Taco & Tequila 

Bar nearly five years ago. 

Now a half-decade later, the 

duo, along with the rest of the 

restaurant’s management team, 

is putting the final touches on 

Northbrook’s newest eatery. 

The ownership team is hoping 

to officially open its doors 

in downtown Northbrook at 

1350 Shermer Road this month, 

pending final approval from the 

Village. 

Glenbrook North alumna Serah 

Cicek, Kadir’s wife, and 

Manny Gill join Kadir Cicek 

and Alvarez to make up Eataco’s 

ownership group. Each of the 

four brings with them years of 

experience in the restaurant 

industry, something the team 

feels will make Eataco a fresh, 

signature dining option for the 

Northbrook community. 

“Our background is really 

strong and we have a really 

strong team,” Kadir Cicek said. 

“We’ve been in the industry so 

long. We’ve worked together 

for so many years. Each of us 

has unique experiences in the 

restaurant industry to bring with 

us.” 

With Eataco’s opening right 

around the corner, creating a 

strong sense of community is 

among the new Northbrook 

restaurant’s top priorities. 

“Our goal with Eataco is to 

form a place for the community 

— a place that people want to 

engage with regularly” Serah 

Cicek said. “People are always 

looking for warm, welcoming 

and social atmospheres with 

good, quality food. And we 

want to give them just that.” 

Each owner emphasized the 

importance of crafting an interior 

design that’s welcoming 

and one that gives diners a 

chance to enjoy more than just 

the restaurant’s food. The walls 

inside the space are painted with 

bright colors and feature artistic 

works. 

Kadir said the space’s current 

capacity is approximately 40 

diners inside, with the possibility 

for roughly 10-15 more on 

an outdoor patio. 

The owners described the restaurant’s 

concept as “sit-down 

casual” and the initial plan is for 

Eataco’s hours to be 11 a.m.-10 

p.m. but Kadir said those may 

change “depending on what’s in 

demand.” 

Much of the makings of 

Please see Eataco, 29 

Pictured is artistic work featured on the interior design of 

Eataco Taco and Tequila Bar, located at 1350 Shermer Road. The 

restaurant’s management team hopes to open this month. Martin 

Carlino/22nd Century Media 

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Faith Briefs 

Lubavitch Chabad of Northbrook 

(2095 Landwehr Road) 

Shavuot 

Join for Shavuot at 

Chabad Northbrook from 

Saturday, June 8, to Monday, 

June 10. Highlighted 

events include an all-night 

learning on June 8 at 11:45 

p.m. Plenty of coffee and 

refreshments. On June 9 at 

11 a.m.: Hear the 10 Commandments, 

followed by a 

garden party complete with 

dairy lunch and ice cream. 

On June 10 at 11 a.m., a 

Yizkor Memorial Service. 

See entire schedule at www. 

ChabadNorthbrook.com. 

Tuesday Women to Women 

Class 

Weekly women’s class 

hosted by Chaya Epstein at 

9 a.m. Women to Women 

is a Jewish women’s organization 

run by women for 

women. For more information, 

call (847) 564-8770. 

Congregation Beth Shalom 

(3433 Walters Ave) 

Shabbat with a Twist 

Join from 11 a.m. to 

11:45 a.m. on Friday, June 

7, and June 21. Families 

with children up to Pre-K 

join our clergy for stories, 

songs and projects and then 

twist your own challah with 

the dough we provide and 

take it home to bake. Open 

to the community — free of 

charge. For more information, 

call (847) 498-4100. 

Distinguished Speakers 

Program 

Congregation Beth Shalom 

Distinguished Speakers 

Program presents Daniel 

Silva, New York Times 

bestselling author, July 19, 

at 8 p.m. Silva will be interviewed 

by Jamie Gangel, 

CNN Special Correspondent. 

Autographed copies 

of his newest release, the 

NEW GIRL, expected to 

be released July 11, are 

available for pre-order now 

for $25 and will be available 

for pickup at the event. 

The event is open to the 

community free of charge. 

Contact Lisa at LOrlov@ 

BethShalomNB.org to preorder 

a book and for more 

information. 

Shavuot 

Join at Congregation 

Beth Shalom to welcome 

the festival of Shavuot on 

Saturday, June 8, at 9 p.m. 

Following the festival service, 

we will have our 

Tikkun L’eyl Shavuot, an 

evening of study with our 

clergy and members of the 

congregation. 

Northbrook Community Synagogue 

(2548 Jasper Court) 

Morning Minyan 

Join morning minyan 

followed by breakfast on 

weekdays at 7:15 a.m. and 

on Sundays and holidays at 

9 a.m. For information, call 

(847) 509-9204. 

Islamic Cultural Center of Greater Chicago 

(1810 Pfingsten Road) 

Juma’ah Prayer 

This prayer includes a 

khutba (sermon) by Imam, 

followed by the prayer 

from 1-2 p.m. on Fridays. 

For more information, call 

(847) 272-0319. 

Sunday Talk 

Every Sunday the Islamic 

Cultural Center will hold 

a discussion at 12:30-1 

p.m. For more information, 

call (847) 272-0319 or visit 

www.icc-greaterchicago. 

com. 

Young Israel of Northbrook 

(3545 Walters Ave.) 

Weekly Monday Night 

Torah Study 

Study Torah with Rabbi 

Herschel Berger, spiritual 

leader of Young Israel of 

Northbrook, at 7 p.m. on 

Mondays. Discussions will 

correlate the study topic 

to modern daily life. No 

charge. For more information, 

contact Rabbi Berger 

at (847) 205-1910 or 

hbglobemet@aol.com. 

Casual Morning Minyan 

On Saturdays at 9:30 

a.m., join for a Shabbat, 

lay-led, participatory service 

held in the mishkan. 

The one-hour service is informal 

and open to young 

and old alike. 

Gloria Dei Lutheran Church (1133 Pfingsten) 

Shavuot 

Celebrate Shavuot at 

DNG on Saturday, June 8, 

at 11:30 p.m. Tikkun Leil 

Shavuot Saturday (until 

4:30 a.m.); Sunday, June 

9, early shacharit 5:15 

a.m., shacharit 9 a.m., kiddush 

lunch, women’s Torah 

learning program; and 

Monday, June 10, shacharit 

9 a.m. and yizkor 10:45 

a.m. 

Temple Beth-El (3610 Dundee Rd) 

Summer Sing Fling 

Join TBE for a family 

Shabbat Sing-Along featuring 

Cantor Adam Kahan 

on June 15 from 3:30 to 5 

p.m. There will be singing, 

dancing, snacks and crafts. 

RSVP at hhamburg@ 

templebeth-el.org. 

Torah & Politics: A Friendly 

Debate 

The community is invited 

to a friendly debate and 

lively conversation. “Torah, 

Politics and Difficult 

Conversations” with Rabbi 

Peter Knobel and Rabbi 

Jonathan Greenberg, modverated 

by Kerry Leaf takes 

place June 23 from 10 a.m. 

to noon at Temple Beth-El. 

Visit www.har-shalom.com 

for more information. 

m.dwojak@22ndcentury 

media.com. Deadline is noon 

on Thursday. Questions? Call 

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In Memoriam 

Marcia R. Nussbaum 

Marcia Rose Nussbaum, 

85, of Northbrook, died 

May 24. 

She was the beloved 

wife of Marvin Nussbaum 

and the late William 

Landau; loving 

mother of Chava Landau 

and Mark (Beth) Landau; 

cherished grandmother of 

Emily and Adam Landau, 

Alaina, Samuel (Ahuva) 

and Maya Edelmuth; dear 

sister of Carol (Richard) 

Kraines; loving 

aunt of Michael (Katherine) 

Kraines and Jeffery 

(Kelly) Kraines. 

Nussbaum was a lifelong 

teacher, quilter and 

exercise enthusiast. Nothing 

was more important 

to her than spending time 

with her wonderful family 

and friends. 

In lieu of flowers, contributions 

may be made to 

Jewish United Fund. 

Fern Malinick 

Fern Malinick, nee 

Raskin, of Northbrook, 

died. 

She was the beloved 

wife of the late Sidney 

Malinick; loving mother of 

Richard (Janine) Malinick, 

Charles (Cathie) Malinick, 

Joanne (Bob) Chiappe and 

the late James Malinick; 

cherished grandmother 

of Todd, Stacy, Heather, 

Dana, Chase and Alexander; 

great-grandmother of 

Asher, Wyatt and Kai; dear 

sister of the late Mendel 

(Phyllis) Raskin. 

In lieu of flowers, memorials 

to Hadassah Chicago 

North Shore, 60 

Revere Drive, Suite 800, 

Northbrook, IL, 60062. 

Bernadette Doherty 

Bernadette “Bernie” 

Doherty, 93, formerly 

a longtime resident of 

Northbrook, died May 26. 

She was the wife of the 

late John “Jack” Doherty; 

mother of John “Jack” 

(Mary) Doherty, the late 

Richard J. (Tracy) Doherty 

(2015), James (Kelly) 

Doherty and Mary (Jack) 

Glynn; loving Grandmother 

and great-grandmother 

to many; daughter of the 

late Leo and Mary Alt; 

sister of Leo (Lorraine) 

Alt, Mary Alt, Robert (Angie) 

Alt, Dorothy (Glenn) 

Brumbaugh and Marguerite 

(Jim) Sbarboro. 

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may be made to Misericordia, 

6300 N. Ridge 

Ave., Chicago, IL, 60660. 

Have someone’s life you’d 

like to honor? Email 

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(1740 Milwaukee Ave. 

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and Saturday: Live 

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(1742 Glenview Road 

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■5 ■ p.m. Friday, June 

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Ten Ninety Brewing Co. 

(1025 N. Waukegan 

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■7-9 ■ p.m. every Thursday: 

Trivia Night 

Oil Lamp Theater 

(1723 Glenview Road) 

■Running ■ to July 7: Beau 

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(410 Kenilworth Ave.) 

■6 ■ p.m. Friday, June 14: 

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— The Liz Berg Band 

will perform 

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(336 Green Bay Road, 

(847) 433-6360) 

■8-12 ■ p.m. every 

Wednesday night: 

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Ravinia Brewing Company 

(582 Roger Williams 

Ave.) 

■7:30-10:30 ■ p.m. Saturday, 

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— Ciao Mang performs 

Jens Jensen Park 

(486 Roger Williams 

Ave.) 

■Starting ■ Thursday, June 

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From Page 27 

Eataco’s menu was crafted 

by Alvarez, who’s spent 

years working in fine-dining 

establishments in New 

York City and Chicago. 

“Javier is the main guy 

who created this menu 

... this is his spotlight,” 

Serah said. 

Serah described the 

menu as “fusion between 

authentic Mexican, modern 

American and Tex- 

Mex.” She mentioned 

homemade tortilla tacos, 

bowls, tostadas, and quesadillas 

as some of the 

items the menu will include. 

Alvarez, a native of Nicaragua, 

said he hopes to 

alter the menu seasonally 

to deliver the best-possible 

arrangement of flavors 

to guests. 

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an alcohol menu 

with Mexican-style local 

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drinks. Speciality nonalcoholic 

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5B2F Akira Sushi comes ‘home’ to Wilmette 

Alyssa Groh 

Contributing Editor 

After closing 153 Akira 

Sushi in Wilmette and taking 

some time off, it brings 

tears to Kelly Yang’s eyes 

to have a restaurant in 

Wilmette again. 

5B2F Akira Sushi 

opened under a new name 

and new location, but has 

the same original owner as 

153 Akira Sushi. 

153 Akira Sushi was 

owned by Yang, who 

eventually sold it to a new 

owner. Shortly after, due 

to lease negotiations, 153 

Akira had to close down. 

After taking approximately 

a year and a half 

off and spending time 

with her young daughters, 

Yang found a new location 

in Wilmette for another 

restaurant. 

5B2F Akira Sushi, 143 

Skokie Blvd., Wilmette, 

officially opened on April 

30. 

Yang said she was waiting 

to find a location in 

Wilmette because it is 

where she calls home. 

“We really missed Wilmette 

and we really missed 

our customers,” said Yang, 

who is a Wilmette resident. 

While this restaurant 

is a bit different than 153 

Akira Sushi, it still offers 

Japanese dishes. 

Seeing residents return 

to her restaurant with excitement 

to learn she was 

5B2F Akira Sushi 

143 Skokie Blvd., 

Wilmette 

(847) 920-5332 

11 a.m.-8 p.m. 

Monday-Saturday 

Closed Sunday 

back made it all worth it 

for Yang. 

“This is a community, it 

moves my heart to see old 

customers come back that 

are happy to see us,” she 

said. 

For Yang, her customers 

are more than customers 

— they are family and 

friends. 

Back at 153 Akira Sushi, 

Yang said she and her 

customers would tell each 

other about their lives and 

be supportive when times 

were rough, while also celebrating 

accomplishments. 

“Our customer relationships 

are very important 

to us,” Yang said. “I want 

to rebuild the relationship 

with new and old customers 

in a different location 

with a new concept. This 

location is a restart for us.” 

One of the biggest 

changes between the two 

restaurants, is the new location 

is much smaller than 

the old one. 5B2F Akira 

Sushi has small window 

and bar seating, and is not a 

full-service restaurant. 

And while there are 

items on the menu at 5B2F 

Akira Sushi that weren’t 

The Menage a Trois ($14) has tempura unagi, cucumber, 

avocado, tuna and sweet tuna topped with salmon and 

drizzled with sauces. 

on the menu at 153 Akira 

Sushi, guests can expect 

the same type of cuisine 

and quality. 

5B2F Akira Sushi may 

be in a much smaller location, 

but its menu is far 

from small. 

The menu contains hot 

and cold appetizers, salads, 

poke bowls, homemade 

ramen, 24 specialty 

rolls, 14 classic rolls, nine 

vegetable rolls and more. 

A team of 22nd Century 

Media editors stopped 

into 5B2F Akira Sushi to 

see what all the hype was 

about. 

We started with a hot 

and a cold appetizer. First 

up was the asparagus beef 

roll ($9.50), made with 

sliced beef, which was 

rolled around asparagus 

and broiled in a teriyaki 

sauce. 

We also tried two items 

from the cold appetizers, 

the hamachi ponzu ($12) 

and tuna tartare ($12). The 

hamachi ponzue is very 

thinly sliced yellowtail 

topped with jalapeno and 

Akira’s special sauce. 

One of our favorite 

items was the tuna tartare, 

which is also a trademark 

of 5B2F Akira Sushi. This 

appetizer consists of towers 

of tuna accompanied 

with crispy wontons. Yang 

mixed it all up for us and 

placed it on top of the 

wonton chips, which was 

similar to chips and dip. 

Known for its sushi, we 

couldn’t wait to dive into 

a specialty roll, the menage 

a trois ($14). This 

roll is considered a spicy 

roll. The menage a trois is 

made with tempura unagi, 

cucumber, avocado with 

tuna and sweet tuna topped 

with salmon and sauces. 

The Kelly Poke Bowl ($13) has avocado, cilantro, 

cucumber, edamame, scallions, onion crunch, tobiko 

and jalapeño on a bed of rice, topped with spicy mayo 

and ponzu sauce at 5B2F Akira Sushi in Wilmette. 

Photos by Anna Schultz/22nd Century Media 

Spicy tuna seaweed salad ($12) lays on a bed of crisp 

lettuce topped with spicy tuna and seaweed. 

We also had the opportunity 

to try one of the 

restaurant’s newest items, 

the Kelly poke bowl ($13), 

made with a combination 

of avocado, cilantro, cucumber, 

edamame, scallions, 

onion crunch, tobiko, 

jalapeno, spicy mayo 

and ponzu sauce. This 

poke bowl is filled with 

flavor and large enough to 

have as an entree. 

We ended our tasting 

with a spicy tuna seaweed 

salad ($12) and the Akira 

Ramen ($14), made with 

pork and chicken broth 

with pork chashu, bamboo, 

bean sprouts, bok choy, 

green onion, kama gobo 

and boiled egg. 

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Athlete of the Week 

The Varsity: North Shore Podcast 

Guys recap playoffs, announce girls soccer honors 

10 Questions 

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Staff Report 

In this week’s episode of 

The Varsity: North Shore, 

the only podcast focused 

on North Shore sports, 

hosts Michal Dwojak, Michael 

Wojtychiw and Nick 

Frazier recap the girls 

soccer, boys and girls lacrosse, 

boys volleyball 

and baseball postseasons, 

hear from New Trier girls 

soccer players Emma 

Weaver and Heidi Bianucci, 

announce the Team 22 

all-area girls soccer teams 

and announce 22nd Century 

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First Quarter 

The three recap all the 

postseason action from the 

past week. 

Second Quarter 

The guys hear from 

Weaver and Bianucci. 

Third Quarter 

With the girls soccer 

season over, the guys announce 

the 2019 Girls 

Soccer Team 22. 

Fourth Quarter 

The three announce the 

Coach and Player of the 

Year. 

with Reid Milkens 

Milkens scored the gamewinning 

goal against Lake 

Forest for the Glenbrook 

North boys lacrosse team. 

When and why did 

you start playing 

lacrosse? 

Before high school in 

about fourth grade, I played 

in two seasons of park district 

recreation league and 

then I stopped playing so 

I could focus on basketball 

but then I picked it up my 

freshman year. 

What do you like most 

about the sport? 

Throughout Glenbrook 

North, definitely the 

coaches. Justin Georgacakis 

one of the best coaches 

I’ve ever played for in any 

sport and he has a great 

culture in the program. 

Do you have any 

superstitions before a 

match? 

I always shower and 

shave right before a game. 

What is your favorite 

sports moment? 

It’s got to be against 

Lake Forest this postseason, 

taking the game into 

overtime and then having 

the game winner. 

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people don’t know 

about you? 

People don’t know that 

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you won the lottery? 

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I would do some special 

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getting a house or car. 

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Athlete of the Month 

Frankel earns Giant honor 

Nick Frazier 


A magical postseason 

run helped Jeremy Frankel 

stand out this month. 

Frankel, a senior pitcher 

on the Highland Park 

baseball team, was named 

22nd Century Media Athlete 

of the Month. He’s 

the second Giant to win 

the award in 2019. 

Thanks to the efforts 

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the start in a 4-2 win over 

second-seeded Stevenson 

in the regional semifinal. 

Frankel won this 

month’s voting with 120 

votes. 

Voting lasted from May 

10-25. The Athlete of the 

NORTH SHORE 

May Athlete of the Month Candidates 

Glenbrook North 

Alex Brafford, boys volleyball 

Jonah Ayzenberg, boys 

tennis 

Jamie Kempner, girls 

basketball 

Erin Markowitz, girls water 

polo 

Cam Hardegree, boys 

gymnastics 

Glenbrook South 

Makayla Stadler, girls 

soccer 

Brendan Matias, baseball 

Dante Kelekolio, boys 

gymnastics 

Highland Park 

Jared Bloom, boys lacrosse 

Berkely Clayborne, girls 

lacrosse 

Jakob French, boys track 

and field 

Month contest for athletes 

selected in the month of 

May gets underway on 

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Sydney Cohen, girls soccer 

Lake Forest 

Grace Gescheidle, badminton 

Kate Kaptrosky, girls 

lacrosse 

Justin McCartney, boys 

volleyball 

Tommy Henry, boys 

lacrosse 

Will Davis, baseball 

Loyola Academy 

Jack Loveland, boys track 

and field 

Maggie Gorman, girls 

lacrosse 

Kathryn Kinsella, softball 

New Trier 

Andrew Kost, baseball 

Sydney Kunkler, girls track 

and field 

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June 25. Vote at NorthbrookTower.com. 

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Girls soccer Coach of the Year 

Burnside’s consistency helps him earn honor 

Michael Wojtychiw 


It’d be fair to make the 

argument that New Trier’s 

Jim Burnside is one of the, 

if not the, greatest girls 

soccer coaches in IHSA 

girls soccer history. 

His 529 career victories 

are rivaled by only Quincy 

Notre Dame’s Mark Longo 

and his six career state 

titles are the most by any 

coach in state history. 

This year, Burnside led 

his squad to an unprecedented 

sixth consecutive 

Girls Soccer Player of the Year 

trip downstate and for that, 

he was named 22nd Century 

Media’s Coach of the 

Year. 

With the amount of soccer 

talent in the state, it’s 

difficult to have a team 

make it to the state’s final 

four once, much less 

six consecutive times and 

13 times overall. So how 

does New Trier continually 

make the annual trip 

to Naperville? 

“The kids constantly 

buy into the idea of working 

hard, doing the little 

things, and playing as a 

team,” Burnside said. “Our 

kids are willing to buy into 

what we’re asking them to 

do, and are also having fun 

at the same time. 

“This time is remarkable 

to me. We have zero 

seniors going on to play 

college soccer at any level. 

That doesn’t really matter, 

but a lot of people gauge 

how good somebody’s going 

to be, who do you have 

as a Division-I recruit, 

who’s signed, who’s this.” 

Full story at Northbrook- 

Tower.com 

Weaver’s progression helps Trevians grow 

Michael Wojtychiw 


Emma Weaver could 

have chosen to play for a 

developmental academy 

like many in the area do. 

Instead the junior chose 

to play for her high school, 

New Trier, and has flourished 

since the day she 

stepped on the field as a 

freshman on the varsity 

squad. 

“I knew when I got offered 

to go back to Academy, 

I knew the day I got 

offered, that I didn’t want 

to accept it because at 

NTGS (New Trier girls 

soccer), it’s family to 

me,” she said. “I felt like 

if it didn’t do, if I did accept 

the Academy thing, I 

would regret it. That was 

my biggest fear. 

“And I didn’t want to 

live in regret, going to the 

games and being ‘Oh I 

wish I was out there, I wish 

I was playing.’ I didn’t 

want to let my teammates 

and my coaches down 

and I think that says a lot 

about the program and the 

individual players because 

that’s what kind of struck 

through me towards high 

school because Academy, 

yeah competitive, and better 

games but it’s the fun 

part that what motivates 

me and I feel like it motivates 

me in the off season 

because I work harder because 

I have something to 

look forward to.” 

After scoring 31 goals, 

she was named 22nd Century 

Media’s 2019 Girls 

Soccer Player of the Year. 

The Trevians lost three 

players who combined to 

score over 40 goals, coaches 

looked upon Weaver to 

become more of a scoring 

threat. 

And not only did she, 

she embraced it in stride. 

“Nicole Kaspi was one 

of a kind, like Sydney 

(Parker), Whitney (Hoban), 

all those players 

were people that I looked 

up to, so I needed to fill 

that role even as a passer, 

which is also as a leader on 

the team,” she said. “Everyone 

is stepping up, the 

freshman, the sophomores, 

the juniors, everyone’s filling 

roles which has made 

it easy because of the loss 

of players we’ve had. 

“I think we had such 

high expectations and being 

part of varsity New 

Trier, that’s a pressure actually 

served as motivation 

for me at least. Because 

I want to prove people 

wrong when they say 

‘you’re not as good this 

year, you lost these players.’ 

It’s like, no, you recreate 

a team that’s amazing 

every year. That’s just 

what (coach Jim) Burnside 

does.” 

Weaver, who had primarily 

played the midfield 

position previously, was 

thrust into the forward 

role. 

Full story at Northbrook- 

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GirlS Soccer 

FirST Team 

Forward 

Makayla Stadler, GBS senior 

• 29 goals, 18 assists; The Titans 

senior earned another First Team 

honor. The Illinois High School Soccer 

Coaches Association awarded her 

with All-State honors. She will play at 

Villanova University. 

MidFielder 

Margy Porta, GBN freshman 

• 14 goals, 3 assists; The 

freshman made quite the splash 

into high school soccer. Porta 

earned an All-Sectional honor in 

her first year with the Spartans. 

deFender 

Heidi Bianucci, NT junior 

• 1 goal, 1 assist; The All- 

Sectional, Central Suburban 

League All-Conference honoree 

helped lead the way for a strong 

defense. She returned after 

missing most of her sophomore 

season with a knee injury. 

Welcome to 22nd Century Media’s All-Area team: Team 22. Thanks to help from area 

coaches and the eyes of 22nd Century Media staff, the best players were selected from 

eight high schools — Glenbrook North (GBN), Glenbrook South (GBS), Highland Park (HP), 

Lake Forest (LF), Loyola Academy (LA), North Shore Country Day (NSCD), New Trier (NT) and 

Regina Dominican (RD) — in our coverage area. 

Second Team 

Forward 

Emma Weaver, NT junior 

• 27 goals, 11 assists; An 

All-State selection, she used 

her speed to help her beat the 

competition and make the jump 

to the First Team. 

MidFielder 

Lily Denk, GBN freshman 

• 12 goals, 3 assists; Denk 

joined Porta as one of the key 

freshmen helping the Spartans’ 

youth movement. 

deFender 

Josie Crumley, NT senior 

• New Trier’s All-Conference 

honoree helped lead the 

Trevians to 16 shutouts. 

Forward 

Edith Edwards-Mizel, NSCD 

junior 


All-Sectional honoree was a 

key cog for the Raiders, helping 

her team return to the state 

championship game. 

MidFielder 

Lilly Rausch, RD junior 

• 15 goals; The Girls Catholic 

Athletic Conference White Player 

of the Year helped lead the way 

for Regina. She also earned an 

All-Sectional honor. 

deFender 

Leland Keller, LF senior 

• 3 goals, 3 assists; Keller 

earned an All-Sectional honor 

and helped lead the Scouts to 

12 team shutouts. 

MidFielder 

Emily Weil, NSCD senior 


senior earned an All-Sectional 

Honorable Mention honor after 

finishing her career with the 

Raiders. 

deFender 

Olivia Kosla, GBN junior 

• 1 goal; Kosla provided the 

upperclassmen leadership 

needed for a young Spartans 

squad. 

Goalkeeper 

Libbie Vanderveen, GBS senior 

• 10 shutouts, .68 GAA; The 

Titans senior helped lead a 

strong season where GBS made 

it to its sectional-title game. She 

earned All-Conference and All- 

Sectional honors. 

Forwards 

Katie Weiss, GBS junior 

• 17 goals, 10 assists; Weiss took on the 

scoring when Stadler didn’t for the Titans. 

Maggie Brett, LA senior 

• 6 goals, 4 assists; The GCAC Red Player 

of the Year and All-Conference honoree 

earned an All-State honor for the third time. 

Jolie Carl, HP senior 

• The All-Sectional honoree will play at 

Washington University, St. Louis in the fall. 

MidFielders 

Allie Charnas, NSCD junior 

• 12 goals, 13 assists; The Raider earned 

an All-Sectional Honorable Mention honor. 

Paige Forester, NSCD senior 

• 10 goals, 10 assists; Forester finished 

her Raider career having helped her team 

reach the state title back-to-back years. 

Lily Conley, NT senior 

• 6 goals, 12 assists; Conley earned 

All-Sectional and All-Conference honors, 

helping her team with her versatility. 

Julia DiSano, GBS senior 

• 5 goals, 3 assists; The senior helped 

provide leadership for the Titans. 

deFenders 

Katie Sullivan, GBS senior 

• 7 assists; Sullivan returned to the 

Second Team with a strong senior season. 

Maggie Mick, LF senior 

• The senior helped lead her team to 12 

shutouts in a rebound season for LF. 

Sydney Cohen, HP senior 

• The senior defender was an All-Sectional 

Honorable Mention honoree. 

Caroline Segal, NSCD junior 

• 1 goal, 1 assist; The Raider helped man 

the defense that limited chances. 

Goalkeeper 

Meghan Dwyer, NT senior 

• .57 GAA, 9 goals allowed; New Trier’s 

senior missed some time due to a 

concussion but rebounded in a big way. 

Honorable mentions: 

Challen Flaws, GBS junior MF; Sophia 

Divagno, LF junior GK; Katherine Jaros, 

LA senior GK; Meredith Phillips, LA 

junior F; Grace Ehlert, LA 

freshman MF; Mia Sedgwick, 

NT sophomore MF; Fallon 

Warshauer, NT senior F

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Kipnis hopes new facility 

will inspire young players 

Martin Carlino, Editor 

Jason Kipnis wants every 

young Northbrook baseball 

player to have the same opportunity 

he once had. 

The two-time Major 

League Baseball all-star 

believes Northbrook Baseball, 

along with his time at 

Glenbrook North, gave him 

everything he ever needed 

to be successful. 

Playing games at Village 

Green Park and lacing 

up his cleats for Fourth of 

July tournaments at Techny 

still remain among his most 

beloved memories with the 

game of baseball. 

The timeless traditions of 

Northbrook Baseball will 

forever be ingrained in his 

mind and he hopes to keep 

them alive for generations 

to come. 

To ensure the program’s 

rich heritage never fades, 

Northbrook’s youth baseball 

players now have a 

new place to play the game 

they love. 

Kipnis returned to his 

hometown Saturday, June 

1, to celebrate the opening 

of the Northbrook Baseball 

Kipnis Center — a state-ofthe-art 

indoor facility that 

gives Northbrook players a 

dedicated year-round place 

to practice. 

“Northbrook Baseball 

gave me everything that 

I needed and as you go 

through the ranks, you always 

want to give back,” 

Kipnis said. “Northbrook 

Baseball, along with Glenbrook 

North, meant everything 

to me in my baseball 

career.” 

Dozens of Northbrook 

residents packed the facility, 

located at 1851 Janke 

Drive, for a ribbon-cutting 

Northbrook native and Glenbrook North alumnus 

Jason Kipnis signs autographs for Northbrook 

Baseball players Saturday, June 1, at the opening 

of the Northbrook Baseball Kipnis Center. Scott 

Margolin/22nd Century Media 

For more 

photos from 

the opening of 

the Northbrook 

Baseball Kipnis Center, 

please visit Northbrook- 

Tower.com. 

ceremony and a tour of the 

space. The facility’s opening 

comes less than one 

month after Northbrook 

Baseball announced its creation 

via press release. 

The Northbrook Baseball 

Kipnis Center was made 

possible thanks to a donation 

from Kipnis, a recently 

launched capital campaign 

from Northbrook Baseball, 

as well as countless hours 

of hard work from the program’s 

board of directors. 

“This is a day I don’t 

think Northbrook Baseball 

ever expected, and it’s 

due to the extremely hardworking 

board,” Mark Gerstein, 

Northbrook Baseball 

director and league commissioner 

said. 

Gerstein thanked Lucas 

Buti and Ira Mirochnick for 

their dedicated work on the 

facility’s interior prior to its 

opening. He also thanked 

the entire Kipnis family 

for its unwavering support 

of Northbrook Baseball 

“since its infancy.” 

While speaking to those 

in attendance, Kipnis said 

he wants baseball to stick 

around for a long time in 

Northbrook. 

Kipnis also mentioned 

he believes the facility will 

serve as a great opportunity 

for youth players and members 

of the GBN baseball 

team to develop and refine 

their skills. 

The GBN alumnus hopes 

to make it out to the facility 

several times during the 

offseason to work with, 

help coach and offer hitting 

lessons to current Spartans. 

Kipnis’ nine-year majorleague 

career is filled with 

accolades, but the opportunity 

to give back to his 

community is his most 

valuable takeaway. 

“I just want baseball to 

keep going in Northbrook,” 

he said. “I want kids to 

have every opportunity 

to play this game that has 

given so much to me so 

hopefully they can experience 

the lives that I’ve got 

to live.”

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Scott Margolin/22nd 

century media 

1st-and-3 

Players of the 

week 

1. Jason Kipnis 

(Above) The Glenbrook 

North alumnus 

came back 

home to help 

open the Jason 

Kipnis Northbrook 

Baseball Indoor 

Facility on Saturday, 

June 1. 

2. Brennan Nein 

North’s boys 

lacrosse player 

scored the team’s 

fourth goal 

against Warren, 

helping lead a 

comeback that 

came up short in 

the team’s supersectional. 

3. Reid Milkens The 

Spartan boys 

lacrosse player 

scored a goal in 

the team’s loss to 

Warren, ending a 

good season. 

Boys Lacrosse 

Spartans end memorable season with loss in super-sectional 

Gary Larsen 


Glenbrook North made 

a memorable playoff run 

this year, winning a sectional 

title before a onegoal 

loss in the super-sectional 

ended the Spartans’ 

season. 

“It was a huge accomplishment 

for GBN lacrosse,” 

senior David Wilcox 

said. “There’s been 

a drought period when 

GBN hasn’t been considered 

one of the top teams 

in the state and I think 

this playoff push was a 

wakeup call for the rest of 

the state, to give us more 

respect.” 

Seeded third behind 

No. 1 Lake Forest and No. 

2 St. Viator at this year’s 

Lake Forest Sectional, the 

Spartans upset both teams 

before losing 5-4 to Warren 

in a super-sectional 

game on May 28. 

The Spartans won 8-6 

over St. Viator and 12- 

11 over Lake Forest to 

reach the state’s Elite 

Eight. 

“It was a really good 

group to coach and a really 

good team,” Spartans 

coach Justin Georgacakis 

said. “It was just a good, 

hard-nosed team and I had 

a lot of fun with them. 

“It was a good group of 

seniors and we’ll return 

a good amount of guys. 

The seniors talked about 

building a foundation and 

Glenbrook North boys lacrosse player Joey Harris fights off Warren players on May 

28 in Lake Zurich. Gary Larsen/22nd Century Media 

that’s what they did.” 

Playing without key attacking 

player Jake Sorkin, 

who suffered a season-ending 

injury in the 

win over Lake Forest, the 

Spartans (14-10) struggled 

to find an offensive 

push in the first half. 

After a scoreless first 

quarter, Warren (21-3) 

scored four goals in the 

second and led 4-1 at halftime. 

Sophomore Jack 

Hardesty scored North’s 

lone first-half goal. 

The Spartans’ offense 

has been shining down 

the season’s stretch but 

adjusting without Sorkin 

proved difficult. 

“We were trying to rally 

and play for (Sorkin) in 

this game, but he’s such a 

focal point in our offense 

that it was tough to get going 

without him,” Wilcox 

said. “It took us a while to 

figure out how to run our 

offense without him.” 

A goal by junior Reid 

Milkens cut Warren’s lead 

to 4-2 in the third quarter 

but Warren went up 5-2 

in the quarter on the only 

goal North gave up in the 

second half. 

With less than five 

minutes remaining in 

the game, senior Connor 

Doughty buried a longrange 

shot to make it 5-3, 

and senior Brennan Nein 

scored quickly thereafter 

to bring North within one 

goal of Warren with four 

minutes remaining. 

A final attacking push in 

the game’s final seconds 

saw a shot get behind Warren’s 

goalie and seemingly 

trickle over the goal line. 

Spartans at the net began 

celebrating but the official 

never made the goal 

call and the final buzzer 

sounded. 

“It’s hard to call that 

back when three kids on 

our team right at the goal 

all jump up in celebration,” 

Wilcox said. “They 

wouldn’t do that if they 

saw the ball get saved.” 

Georgacakis quickly 

dismissed the game’s final 

play. 

“That’s the way it goes. 

We had opportunities earlier 

and later,” he said. 

“The bottom line is, we 

made too many mistakes 

at the beginning of the 

game and we gave up that 

one bad goal in the third 

quarter. 

“We started off a little 

slow with some bad decisions. 

But we played hard 

and fought through to the 

end, and all you can ask 

for is a chance to tie it up 

and they created that. We 

finished the game a lot better 

than we started.” 

North will lose 12 seniors 

from this year’s team 

and the departing Wilcox 

hopes the Spartans’ 

2019 playoff run will pay 

dividends for the program 

moving forward. 

“We sort of anticipated 

being another .500 GBN 

team but we picked up fuel 

and gelled late as a family,” 

Wilcox said. “I think 

that was the biggest factor. 

“The win over St. Viator 

was a huge stepping stone 

for whole GBN program. 

Now it gives us hope that 

we can hang with these top 

dogs.” 

Listen Up 

“I just want baseball to keep going in 

Northbrook.” 

Jason Kipnis — The GBN alumnus on helping open 

the new Northbrook Baseball indoor facility. 

tunE in 

What to watch this week 

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get those golf clubs out and hit the greens. 

Visit any of your local park district golf courses 

Index 

36 - Athlete of the Month 

35 - Athlete of the Week 

Fastbreak is compiled by The Tower’s staff. Send comments to 

m.dwojak@22ndcenturymedia.com.

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End of a run Spartans finish season 

in super-sectional loss, Page 39 

Naming the best 

All-area girls soccer teams 

announced, Page 37 

Northbrook native Jason Kipnis returns 

home for opening of Northbrook Baseball’s 

new indoor facility, Page 38 

Glenbrook North alumnus Jason Kipnis cuts a ribbon marking the opening of the 

Northbrook Baseball Kipnis Center, a new state-of-the-art indoor facility, on Saturday, 

June 1, in Northbrook. 

INSET: The two-time Major League Baseball all-star Kipnis poses for a photo with 

Northbrook Baseball players. Photos by Scott Margolin/22nd Century Media 

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