Hinsdale Magazine April 2015 Issue

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CLARENDON HILLS

Part I: Reliving the 1961 TWA Airliner Crash

OUTDOOR LUXURIES Bringing the Indoors Out

LOCAL ANNIVERSARIES Wellness House and Children’s Home + Aid Hinsdale Auxiliary Celebrate Milestones

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SCOTT JONLICH

Anniversaries, Milestones & Welcomes

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n this April issue, we recognize the Hinsdale auxiliary of Children’s Home + Aid and Wellness House, which reached special milestones this year, celebrating their 60th and 25th anniversaries, respectively. We hope you can be at Derby Day for the Hinsdale auxiliary’s annual fundraising benefit on Saturday, May 2, followed by the annual Walk for Wellness House the next morning, May 3.

As an organization, Children’s Home + Aid provides more than 70 programs, including foster care, adoption services, early childhood education, family counseling and youth services to about 60 counties in Illinois. Local volunteers help keep that moving forward, and for that, we salute them. Likewise, we salute Wellness House’s service to the area + CLARENDON HILLS communities since being founded OUTDOOR LUXURIES a quarter century ago. The annual LOCAL ANNIVERSARIES Walk for Wellness House is the year’s biggest fundraising effort, involving families and organizations from surrounding communities. We hope to see you at the walk.

On the cover, print managing editor Mike Ellis visits with the Hinsdale Historical Society and local homeowners.

Despite the rise of teardowns, some younger generation families in the area are showing appreciation for older homes. In this issue, we feature the homes of Ken and Jenna Julian and Craig and Tracy Zoberis. Both of these families recently purchased homes in Hinsdale built in the 1930s, and then embarked on major renovation projects.

You’ll learn what drew both families to appreciate older architecture, as well as how they’re making their new homes fit with younger children.

This April issue features the first installment of a threepart series on Clarendon Hills. In September 1961, unincorporated Clarendon Hills was the site of the Part I: Reliving the 1961 TWA Airliner Crash

Bringing the Indoors Out

Wellness House and Children’s Home + Aid Hinsdale Auxiliary Celebrate Milestones

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greatest tragedy in the history of the greater Hinsdale area. Seventy-eight people perished when TWA Flight 529 crashed in an open field between 61st and 59th Streets near Bentley Ave. In this issue, you’ll find out what likely caused the accident, as well as how the disaster could have been even worse.

On our community scene pages, we review Tablescapes, the annual benefit hosted by the Hinsdale auxiliary of the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago (IWS). Held on March 15, Tablescapes was attended by more than 500 ladies, most of whom were local. We also congratulate the Clarendon Hills auxiliary of IWS on its benefit, “An Enchanted Evening,” as well as the men’s auxiliary of Children’s Home + Aid on its second annual “Men’s Night Out” event at Salt Creek Bath and Tennis Club and St. Isaac Jogues Catholic School, which hosted its 25th annual auction, “Denim and Diamonds.”

I want to thank the villages of Burr Ridge and Oak Brook, which were very gracious with their time during our three-part series on their respective towns. Hinsdale Magazine will continue to deliver the kinds of stories you like to read about in your neighboring communities. I hope you continue to read the Clarendon Hills segments this spring. We will begin our Hinsdale three-part series in June, and we will have some fascinating stories to tell. To see more stories and photos from area events, please visit www.hinsdale60521.com.

Finally, I would like to issue a warm welcome to our newest additions to our growing staff: Jim Prisching and Marco Nunez, who join Karen Hood and Kyle Hampson as staff photographers, along with our newest writer, Kristin Pedicini. As always, Hinsdale Magazine welcomes your input, and we look forward to continue serving our readers first and foremost.

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COVER STORY Historic Houses

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SPOTLIGHT

Clarendon Hills Series Part I: 1961 Airliner Crash

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COMMUNITY SCENE

Hinsdale Infant Welfare Tablescapes An Enchanted Evening Men’s Night Out St. Isaac Jogues Auction

FOUNDER & PUBLISHER

Scott Jonlich

PRINT MANAGING EDITOR

Mike Ellis

CREATIVE DEPARTMENT

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Cheryl Chrzanowski Julia Sinogeikina COLUMNISTS

Jim Fannin Errol Janusz Dan Meyer

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Kerrie Kennedy Kristin Pedicini

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHERS

Kyle Hampson Karen Hood Marco Nunez Jim Prisching

ADVERTISING SALES

Sarah Chase Rick Dahl Renee Lawrence

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Children’s Home + Aid 60th anniversary

30 GIVING BACK

Wellness House Celebrates 25th anniversary

38 FOOD & DRINK

Rising stars, old favorites and new finds

42 OUTDOOR LIVING Bringing the indoors out

46 EVENTS CALENDAR April community events

49 REALTOR PROFILES Annual special advertising feature

62 TECH KNOW

“Paving the way” by Errol Janusz

64 PEAK PERFORMANCE

“It’s mental spring cleaning” by Jim Fannin

66 SPIRITUAL INSIGHT “Forgiven” by Dan Meyer

ON THE COVER Tracy Zoberis and Jenna Julian of Hinsdale

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Photography by Jim Prisching

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Tudor home built in the early 1930s

HISTORIC HOUSES

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r i v i n g down the streets of Hinsdale in 2015, one will notice a mixture of modern and historic YOUNGER GENERATION SHOWS architecture.

Some houses constructed APPRECIATION FOR PERIODbefore 1900 reside not INSPIRED HOME DESIGN far from brand-new construction. On the

by Mike Ellis | Photography by Jim Prisching north-side of town, some longtime residents have observed that smaller, older homes have gradually been supplanted by more massive, newer homes built on the same properties.

In adjacent Clarendon Hills, village

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data indicates that more than 1,200 lots were redeveloped between 1990 and 2010, and the village is projecting that roughly 25 additional lots will be redeveloped over each of the next 20 years.

The “teardown” phenomenon has its share of proponents and critics, but some younger residents are challenging the stereotype that families moving to the Hinsdale area are more likely to be enticed by new construction.

Ken and Jenna Julian and Craig and Tracy Zoberis all have roots in the greater Hinsdale community, and have since moved back to the area. Ken, Jenna and Tracy attended Hinsdale Central, while Craig’s parents moved to Burr Ridge when he was in high school.

The Julians and the Zoberises have also recently undertaken major renovation efforts in order to redesign and repurpose elements of historic Hinsdale homes they purchased in 2012 and 2013, respectively.

While their respective projects differ widely in specifics, both families have an appreciation for historic architecture and a desire to preserve it in common.

“I think there is just a different feel when you walk into a house that’s rich in tradition, and the charm that you can sort of sense,” Jenna Julian said. “You know people have been there before; I just like to think about who’s been here, and what did they do in the different rooms, knowing that we’re continuing it on.”

Ken and Jenna moved to Hinsdale in 2004, settling on Garfield Street in southeast Hinsdale. At the end of 2012, they purchased a Tudor home on nearby Elm, allowing them to expand their living space while keeping their two children enrolled at Oak Elementary School.

Built in the early 1930s, the home projects a traditional Tudor appearance from the exterior, featuring the customary timber-plaster mix most readily associate with Tudor architecture.

The Julians began construction in September 2013, and after about a year, they moved into their new home in October 2014.

Jenna said when they visited both new and old houses after deciding to move out of their home on Garfield, the “nuances that you don’t see in new

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houses” were the differentiating factors in their selection of an older home.

Some of the furniture in the home is original, while other pieces—like the dining room table—have been fashioned to resemble the ambient design. The Julians were also considerate to repurpose antique furniture in other parts of the home when appropriate. For instance, they moved the original kitchen cabinet, marked with hand-carved notches, to the basement, and also reused the windows and door from another portion of the house in their new garage.

“I was a little bit of a stickler on not throwing anything out, and trying to use as much as we had [from the original house],” Jenna said.

Additions and renovations to the home included finishing the basement, removing one of the two staircases connecting the first and second stories, and the aforementioned new garage.

But even when the Julians made modifications to the home, Ken said they were cognizant of keeping the new features contemporaneous with the original design elements.

“Everybody was invested in making sure that anything we did added to the richness of the house,” Jenna said, “and at times, that was a challenge; we had to make a few sacrifices on things, because we wanted to keep the original structure in place. We were still able to get everything we needed or wanted.”

The basement features an exercise room (Jenna is a physical therapist) and a new bar area, distinguished by its white oak trim and composite granite finish designed to resemble the era of the original construction. In the attic, the Julians added a Chicago-inspired copper skylight that meshes appropriately with the surrounding room. And for the new garage, the Julians said they worked hard with builder Dave Knecht Homes to locate the right brick to match the home’s exterior.

“We wanted it to be seamless, so that you couldn’t tell,” Ken said.

“We’ve had a lot of people who come to work on the house admire the old craftsmanship,” Jenna said.

Also in southeast Hinsdale, Craig and Tracy Zoberis are wrapping up construction on their home on Third Street, which they began in March 2014.

R. Harold Zook home constructed in the late 1930s

When they move in later this summer, this will mark the Zoberis family’s fourth home in Hinsdale.

“All of our houses that we’ve lived in have been totally different,” Tracy said. “We went from total farmhouse, to something very French-country, to something very coastal right now.”

Tracy said her mother Sally La Crosse, a realtor at Brush Hill Realtors in town, is “always keeping an eye out

for us.” “[Craig and I] both really appreciate architecture and design; it’s something that we’re inspired by,” she said. “That’s why we move so many times. It’s easy to drive down the streets of Hinsdale and see something that you’re just inspired by. You think of how you want to live in that and experience that.”

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in the late 1930s. Its solid limestone exterior is among its most distinctive features.

“The house is built like a complete fortress,” Tracy said. “The exterior walls are like two to three feet wide. ...

This house is going nowhere, so that’s a really great feeling that this is an extraordinarily well-built home that we could never recreate.”

The Zoberises currently reside in a more modern coastal-style home in another part of southeast Hinsdale.

Tracy has long held an appreciation for historic architecture, as she minored in art history in college; but she said she was “shocked” when her husband looked at her and said, “I think this is our home.”

“It met both of our dreams,” she said, “where I could restore and live in something that has some sort of historical significance, some sort of character and appreciation for it, and he got to build. So, it was like the best of both worlds.”

Tracy said the home features “a lot of inherent Art Deco influences, which both my husband and I really appreciate.”

She explained that one of the challenges she and Craig faced is that while the original home was designed for a couple without children, they have four young kids. So, they undertook a multi-story addition that will slightly more than double the size of the original home.

Aside from adding requisite bedrooms to accommodate each of their children, the Zoberises also sought to make the home safer by installing several staircases on the east end of the new addition to offset the original spiral staircase in the entryway.

The addition also includes a new kitchen and family room on the first story, as well as an outdoor pool designed to resemble a reflecting pond.

Like the Julians, Tracy said she and Craig were very considerate to preserve design elements when making modifications.

“We appreciate the history, and just tried to respect the original vision and design of the home in every place that we could,” she said, adding that they attempted to follow Zook’s lead

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whenever possible. “Zook was a brilliant architect and far smarter and more creative than we could ever be, so we really just took his influences and carried them into the house.”

Tracy said Richard Olsen, their architect, had a “keen sense” of the architectural time period, while also being able to cater to their needs as a family of six.

The Zoberises can also rest confidently knowing that Zook approved of his original design, as the home features a metal “spider web”—a Zook signature in homes he liked.

They’ve even paid homage to Zook by embedding a web design of their own within the addition.

“I think at the end, having something that’s really signature and unique is what we all want our homes to be,” Tracy said, adding that she and her family plan to move in this summer. “We are not moving again. This will be our last home in Hinsdale until our kids move out.”

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While the Julians and Zoberises have longstanding ties to the community, none of them grew up in older homes.

Yet all of them have their own reasons for appreciating historic architecture.

Ken Julian said he strongly encourages other younger families to consider older homes when shopping the local housing market.

“It’s hard to convince people that old is better, because we’re finding that with trying to sell our other house,” Ken said.

“We’d like to see more younger families coming in—and most of them are used to newer condos they had in the city. It’s hard to get them to realize it’s a good way to get into this town, to be honest.

“It’s harder to find new construction that’s either available or even reasonably affordable. But with older houses, you can. They’re not going anywhere; they’re not going to sink into the ground.

“You can put new windows in, and you can update it; but you can still keep that old look.” n

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This prestigious tour, which attracts attendees from throughout Chicagoland, will take place on Friday, May 8 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Featuring innovative and professionally-designed kitchens that showcase the latest in décor, products and design ideas, the kitchen walk benefits an important mission: local historic preservation.

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PART I: RELIVING THE 1961 TWA AIRLINER CRASH

by Mike Ellis Photography provided by Dave Kent

UNINCORPORATED CLARENDON HILLS WAS THE SITE OF A TRAGIC PLANE CRASH THAT KILLED 78 IN SEPTEMBER 1961

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he area encompassed by Clarendon Hills Road, Bentley Ave. and 59th and 61st Streets in what was once unincorporated Clarendon Hills (now Willowbrook) is rather nondescript at first sight. Homes on large tracts of land mix with fields and foliage, as the property has never been fully developed.

Venturing into the woods just north of 61st Street, one would never guess that this area was once the site of the most horrific tragedy in the history of Clarendon Hills—or the entire greater Hinsdale area for that matter.

Overnight Aug. 31-Sept. 1, 1961, Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 529 landed at Midway Airport on Chicago’s southwest side. It had originated in Boston, before making stops in New York City and Pittsburgh. The plane was a TWA Lockheed L-049 Constellation, a type of airliner that had been in use since the 1940s.

Bound for Las Vegas, Flight 529 departed from Midway Airport at about 2 a.m. on Sept. 1 carrying 78 people—73 passengers and five crew members. Five minutes later, about 11 miles west of Midway, rubble and debris filled an open field between 61st and 59th Streets near Continued on page 20

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thousand feet in the sky.”

Kent said his father witnessed the plane flying at an unusually low altitude about a mile to the west.

“He knew that something was wrong even from a mile away,” Kent said. “An airplane like that never flies that low.”

Frank Trout, then a 17-year-old volunteer firefighter with the Clarendon Heights Fire District and lived nearby at 59th and Western Ave., was one of the first responders on the scene, along with his father.

“It woke up the whole neighborhood when the plane was going over,” said Trout, who later became fire chief in Westmont. “When the plane hit, there was a ball of fire 300 feet in the air that covered the whole length of Photo courtesy of Elmer H. Maves (11yr. old boy, 1961) that property there.”

Port Vertical Tail Wreckage of the Triple Nickel,

WNBQ-TV (later Clarendon Heights, IL 9-1-61 WMAQ-TV) and the Chicago Daily Tribune reported extensively on the plane soared smoothly for the first four the crash later that evening and the next minutes in the air—and then everything day. According to both reports, some went haywire. residents—whose imaginations were perhaps enlivened by the escalating Cold Proceeding roughly along Plainfield War—“thought an atomic bomb had Road in Darien, the plane took a sharp dropped.” northward turn at about Roger Road, essentially following Clarendon Hills Road One witness, who lived three blocks in a north-northwest direction for more from the crash, told an NBC reporter, than a mile until its tail fell off around 61st “I was awake at the time, and I heard Street. Shortly thereafter, it plunged to its an airplane in distress. The engines were demise, about 400 feet north of its shirked coughing; it sounded like it was having tail, according to Kent. trouble. I heard the engines rev up—like [the pilot] was trying to put it back up Elmer Maves, who was 12 years old into the air. We saw the explosion first, at the time and lived on 63rd Street, and then we heard the concussion from the recounted what he saw at a presentation explosion.” hosted by the Clarendon Hills Historical Society last September.

Awakened by his frightened seven-year “It made the sound like one of those old daughter, an NBC reporter who resided in Hinsdale hurried to the scene to capture airboats in Florida,” Maves said. “The film that the station used in its full report engines were running very, very fast. I later that evening, and has been preserved watched out my window, and I saw it go to this day. The famous Floyd Kalber also between my neighbor’s house and our traveled to the accident site to speak with house. homeowners.

“It was going east...and then it turned, and its right tail blew off. There were three Trout, who spent his whole subsequent loud explosions and bright lights...almost career in law enforcement and would like you’d see on firecrackers. ... later serve as a paratrooper in Vietnam, “After it crashed, there was dead silence said the carnage and chaos he observed that morning was unlike anything he ever for two or three seconds; and then all of a sudden, it exploded, and flames were like a encountered.

Bentley Ave., and all 78 people were dead.

From the short duration of the flight, one might surmise that it was doomed for disaster from the outset, but David Kent, an aviation historian who has been researching Flight 529 for decades, said

“I’ve never seen anything that massive—to that extent,” Trout told Hinsdale Magazine.

Trout, who responded to the scene within minutes, said all 78 people on-board the airliner had perished by the time he had arrived, meaning they were all likely killed upon impact.

Jerry Broz, who owned the field on which the plane crashed, told the Tribune, “My farmland is a cemetery without crosses.”

Some of the details Trout shared concerning the accident scene are too graphic to be presented in a freemailed publication. Many bodies were dismembered and burnt.

“On the scene, it was just unbelievable,” Trout said at the historical society presentation last September. “We could never, ever be trained for handling something like this.”

Meanwhile, people from throughout the Western Suburbs began descending upon the indescribable site. A Tribune report from the next morning estimated that 15,000 people clamored to the scene to see what had transpired.

Unfortunately, not all of the visitors had pure or innocent intentions. Trout said within about a half-hour or hour of the crash, before throngs of people began arriving, some miscreants looted bodies, senselessly stealing jewelry and clothing.

“I remember chasing away someone trying to get some rings off of people’s hands,” he said. “It was pretty gruesome.”

WNBQ-TV reported that all 78 onboard were killed, including a family of seven and two families of six, adding that at the time, “it was the third worst disaster in American aviation history—the worst ever here in Chicago.” According to the same report, most of the passengers aboard TWA Flight 529 “were on their way to or from vacation.”

The next morning, the Tribune listed all of the deceased crew members and passengers, providing additional details on the four Chicago area residents, as well as a stewardess who had previously lived in Westchester. One victim, 34-year-old Ray McLaughlin, was a Walgreen’s store manager from north suburban Evanston; another victim, 29-year-old Agnes Drazenovich, was a nurse who worked and resided in west suburban Berwyn.

John Kilroy Jr., 20, was a Navy crewman whose parents resided in Chicago Ridge, a southwest suburb.

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According to the Tribune, perhaps the luckiest person that fateful day was a Pittsburgh man who got off the plane before takeoff, instead electing to travel to Rockford to visit his daughter.

WHAT WENT WRONG

Among the most remarkable aspects of the crash is that although the flight crashed just 11 miles from Midway, there was no reason to suspect Flight 529 would fail to reach its intended destination more than 1,500 miles away when it took off that fateful September morning.

Kent said experts believe a bolt fell out of the airliner’s starboard vertical tail four to five minutes into the flight, which ultimately led to the tail being severed from the rest of the aircraft.

“It took at least a year to come to the conclusions that were arrived at,” he said.

About ten months prior to the accident, Kent said the aircraft underwent a mandatory inspection conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which revealed nothing defective.

“We believe that a cotter pin was left out of a bolt,” Kent said, adding that this tragic oversight led to the bolt slowly wiggling out due to vibration caused by the engines over the ensuing months.

“It was a mistake,” he said. “It was not done intentionally.”

Precisely where the bolt fell out has not been precisely ascertained. It is possible the aircraft shed this integral component near Roger Road in Darien, but Kent said there is also reason to believe it may have been lost around the old International Harvester property, a mile or two to the east.

“The bolt is missing, so it’s very possibly still lying in an open field to the east of the crash site,” he said.

Through his researches, Kent learned that debris falling from the tail landed in the backyards of several families that resided near Plainfield, Roger and Clarendon Hills Roads. This is the area where the plane is believed to have turned its course northwardly.

Although the loss of the starboard vertical tail at 61st Street ultimately led to the destruction of the TWA Constellation and the 78 victims aboard the aircraft, Kent said another factor that was working against the crew from the moment they

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Wreckage fo the fatal TWA plane that crashed in Clarendon Hills is assembled piece by piece in the TWA hangar at Midway Airport. On the far end (back) is the tail section which officials review for a clue to the accident.

began experiencing difficulties was lack of altitude.

Several blocks to the north on 69th Street, Kent said a man named Larry Wangerow and his father observed the aircraft fly overhead at an altitude of only 400 to 500 feet.—By the time the plane crossed 63rd Street, Kent’s father and other nearby observers reported it was only hovering about 50 feet off the ground.

Kent said he and other experts believe the aircraft underwent a series of “stalls,” or in other words, lost its lift.

Consequently, it experienced a lack of altitude. Kent said he thinks the crew’s effort to salvage the flight was “almost perfect,” but the combined factors of lack of altitude and the tail loss thwarted their attempts.

“It was a perfect storm,” he said, “and every time [the pilots] tried to do something, something else failed on them.”

Because the plane deviated suddenly from its initially-westward course, there is reason to believe the pilots may have been attempting to turn it around and aiming for an emergency landing at Midway. Kent said while he thinks they were attempting to turn the aircraft around, it is also possible that the machine was rendered “uncontrollable” during the fifth and final minute of the flight.

“The flight crew were trying to keep that aircraft in the air, and I believe they were trying to turn that airplane around,” he said.

LIVES SPARED

While the 1961 crash was the most horrific in the history of the greater Hinsdale area, it could actually have been worse and involved additional local casualties had the plane remained in the air a bit longer.

The area encompassed by Clarendon Hills Road, Bentley Ave. and 59th and

61st Streets was largely open fields, but Trout said the south side of the Village of Clarendon Hills, north of 55th Street, was as densely populated as it is today.

“If they [had continued] north, it would have been right into the middle of Clarendon Hills—right into the middle of a heavily populated area,” he said.

There has been some speculation that the pilots adroitly steered the aircraft away from the homes scattered about the area, but Kent said it is more probable that this occurred by chance, as the airliner would not have been controllable after shedding its tail at 61st Street.

“It is quite possible that they steered [away], but more than likely, no,” he said. “When that aircraft went in, it was uncontrollable.”

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More than five decades later, hardly a vestige of the crash remains at the site.

There is no memorial or symbol at the scene to demarcate where it happened.

Trout said the debris, which took days to remove, was loaded onto flatbeds and transported to Midway Airport.

Today, Flight 529 remains as an inextricable memory to those who experienced it firsthand, and an unimaginable historical event for residents who have since moved to the area.

As Diane Hiller, president of the Clarendon Hills Historical Society put it during the presentation last September, “It’s hard to believe that such a terrible tragedy happened right here in our community.” n Sources: WNBQ-TV Ch. 5 evening newscast, Sept. 1, 1961; “Full story of air crash!” “List 78 dead in crash of T.W.A. airliner,” “4 Chicago area residents killed,” Chicago Daily Tribune, Sept. 2, 1961

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At one time, the dollar tree (left) was a staple of the Hinsdale auxiliary’s signature event, Derby Day.

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raditions are a crucial component of the greater Hinsdale community. In this area, it is not uncommon for children to grow up, head off to college, enjoy city life, and return to Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills or surrounding west suburban towns with families of

their own.

Aside from the allure of high-ranking school districts and safe neighborhoods, a tight-knit social and community fabric is also attractive to families looking at these suburbs.

The Hinsdale auxiliary of Children’s Home + Aid is celebrating its 60th anniversary, and a number of the ladies currently involved with this non-profit group are carrying on family legacies that began with their mothers.

Children’s Home + Aid is a Chicago-based non-profit organization that is committed to enhancing the lives of children and their families. Founded in 1883 by a Presbyterian minister in downstate Illinois, the organization provides service to upwards of 40,000 families in more than 60 counties throughout the state.

Since the 1950s, local ladies have generously lent their

efforts to support Children’s Home + Aid through the Hinsdale auxiliary.

The signature fundraising benefit that has anchored the auxiliary’s fiscal contribution is Derby Day, held annually on the first Saturday in May in conjunction with the Kentucky Derby.

In former years, auxiliary members and their guests gathered in members’ homes for Derby Day, preparing homemade dishes to enjoy as they watched the race and raised money for Children’s Home + Aid. “Derby Day was the day we talked about and worked on all year long,” said Patty Gauen, who joined the auxiliary in 2005.

“Everyone wanted to make it better and more profitable than the previous year. Of course, I loved seeing everyone’s hats [that] we had been hearing about for months, but the most memorable part would probably be the auction.

“I remember one year when a fur coat was in the live auction, and there was a bidding war, and [Hinsdale] Furriers decided to donate two coats instead of one. It was a wonderfully successful night.”

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Ethelmae Waters, who became an auxiliary member about the late 1970s, fondly recalled Derby Days at the home of Shirley Tolbert, who resided on an expansive property with horses in Breckinridge Farms. Waters’ daughter Meg Berger, now an active member of the auxiliary, said she was responsible for parking cars at Derby Day as a teenager.

“I knew about it, and I think it was a good thing to be exposed to at a young age,” Berger said.

Jan Hammersley, Tolbert’s daughter, was an active member for about 25 years before recently becoming an associate member.

Hammersley described an intimate setting at the Derby Days held at her mother’s home, and said the friendships members made were “amazing.”

Hammersley said other auxiliary activities included taking a bus tour to the city to visit facilities the organization supports, such as a home for unwed mothers, a boys’ center and childcare and parenting classes.

“The most memorable times were in early December going to stuff stockings for the children,” she said. “It was a great hands-on experience for all of us. As the membership grew, there were more moms, grandmothers and friends who joined, and the group and ideas evolved each year to make more money for the charity.”

Meghan Gauen, who has served as manager of auxiliaries and events for Children’s Home + Aid corporate for the past four years, said her mother Patty’s involvement also spurred her to get involved as an adult.

“Growing up and seeing my mother’s passion for philanthropy—especially for Children’s Home + Aid—sparked mine,” Gauen said. “She instilled in my siblings and I strong values about giving back. To this day, my mom is very involved with the Children’s Home + Aid [auxiliary], and as it is with many Hinsdale auxiliary members, it has become a family tradition.”

Gauen said her favorite memories are sorting clothing at the

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Mitzi Friedheim Englewood Child + Family Center on the South Side.

“Every year, we help to sort through thousands of pounds of clothing, and help the children and families find what they need, with other members of the Hinsdale auxiliary,” she said.

“It is just another fun experience the two of us get to share, while giving back to a cause we love.”

For Patty Gauen and Ethelmae Waters, it’s rewarding to see their daughters continuing in their footsteps and making their own impressions with an organization close to their hearts.

“I certainly never thought when I was volunteering with the auxiliary that my family would be involved with Children’s Home + Aid all these years later,” Gauen said. “It makes me so proud.”

Through the years, the auxiliary has evolved in a variety of ways. Derby Day is now hosted at local venues, and will be held at Butterfield Country Club in Oak Brook this May. Once an afternoon event, the benefit now commences in the evening, with a viewing party beforehand for those who want to watch and bet on the race, with proceeds going towards Children’s Home + Aid. The Sherry Party, a winter auxiliary tradition, has also shifted locations from members’ homes to local stores. Elyce Rembos of Hinsdale has hosted this early-December event at her store, the Green Goddess Boutique, for the past several years. Berger said the Sherry Party, once a “thank-you” for Derby Day attendees, has morphed into an event that raises several thousand dollars for Children’s Home + Aid, due in large part to the generosity of Rembos, who matches her proceeds from that evening.

Meanwhile, Children’s Home + Aid itself has grown, opening up centers in Evanston, Schaumburg and Carpentersville in addition to the aforementioned Englewood center. Berger said in recent years, the auxiliary has put its main focus on supporting the Marletta Darnall Schaumburg Child + Family Center, which provides early childhood care and education for children born in “high-risk” environments to improve their odds of starting out their academic careers on the right foot.

But other aspects of the auxiliary have remained the same as well. The group is still relatively small, ranging between about 30 and 40 members from year to year, so that monthly meetings can be held in members’ homes. Derby Day remains the first Saturday in May. And the auxiliary is still committed to benefiting the same cause it has supported for the past six decades.

“Being part of Children’s Home + Aid was a true gift and wonderful cause,” Hammersley said, “and I can thank my mom for the experience and memories of a lifetime. I can only hope that [the Hinsdale auxiliary] gets better and better each year.” n

Derby Day will be held at Butterfield Country Club on Saturday, May 2, starting at 6:30 p.m. The race viewing party will begin at 5 p.m. For more information about Children’s Home + Aid and the Hinsdale auxiliary, visit www. childrenshomeandaid.org.

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estled in a bright, welcoming Hinsdale neighborhood sits the Wellness House, a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting people from all walks of life who have been touched by cancer.

With one in every two men and

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one in every three women being affected by cancer, the disease is something every individual has a connection to, according to Wellness House executive director Jeannie Cella.

“Everyone can identify with ‘what if that happens to me’ or ‘that happened to my sister, or my

mom,’ ” Cella said. “Everyone has a connection to Wellness House, because cancer can happen to them; it’s an equal-opportunity disease.”

Located at 131 N. County Line Road, Wellness House not only offers services to those who have been diagnosed with cancer, but also to spouses, caregivers, children and family members.

One board member, Brad Warble, said the house is the “best-kept secret” in town.

“You walk out of the door after your treatment, and there’s nothing besides your husband or wife holding your hand, and your kids and family coming around you—that’s it,” Warble said. “But this is more...and if the word gets out, why wouldn’t you [want to try it]?”

But spilling the beans isn’t the organization’s only goal this year; 2015 marks the non-profit’s 25th year anniversary.

And looking at this year’s significance, Warble is hoping that one specific fundraiser really widens the organization’s community net: the Walk for Wellness House.

This annual event, which will be held May 3, includes a 3K walk, 5K fun run and 5K timed run. Registration begins at 7 a.m., and the walks and runs start at 8:30 a.m.

For a $25 entry fee, $10 additional for the timed run, anyone can enter, according to Cella. She said this type of event is one for “the masses.”

“It’s a fundraiser and an awareness-builder, and it’s equal parts both,” Cella said.

The walk will start and finish at the house, and is open to families of all ages, sizes and even their fourlegged friends.

As a co-chair of the event with board member David Jones, Warble said he firmly believes the “net” is being spread further, and predicts the walk will raise $1 million.

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“Hinsdale has owned up and is such a giving community,” Warble said. “So much of this walk comes from [local residents], but I won’t quit until I see a better representation of [surrounding] communities.”

Wellness House supporter and former board member Bob Baum said the event is a wonderful lesson for the

younger participants.

“They get a sense of what charity is all about and doing something to help,” Baum said. “The walk has a lot of aspects about it that are really advantageous to people for many different reasons.”

Baum, who first became aware of the house back in 1993, said to him,

it was important to find a charity he could be a part of, rather than simply writing a check.

Now, more than two decades later, Baum still plays a major role at Wellness House.

As the executive vice president of the Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc., his corporation will be the presenting sponsor of this year’s walk.

Being a part of the non-profit’s walk is an easy choice, according to Baum, who added that people always want to come out and do something to help manage their lives and fight the disease.

Baum said all the support given from the house and family members using the house is “critical” to the emotional side of fighting cancer.

“The house just does a great job, and the programs are wonderful, but eventually you leave here and you go home,” he said. “And what better situation could you want than people in your family who understand what these programs are trying to do?”

Warble further echoed Baum, sharing the experience his late first wife had at the house.

“She absolutely loved [the house], and I don’t know if she was in the group nine months to a year before she passed away, but she just got so much out of it,” Warble said. “She used to say, ‘When I’m there, I feel like I’m a normal person, not looking at the future or past,—I’m just with people who have a common goal.’ ” n The Walk for Wellness House is still accepting runners, walkers and volunteers. To sign up, start a team or for more information about Wellness House, please visit www.wellnesshouse.org.

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bout 500 ladies from Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills and surrounding Chicagoland suburbs supported the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago (IWS) at the Hinsdale chapter’s annual Tablescapes event at the Hilton/Oak Brook Hills Resort on March 15.

In accordance with this year’s theme, “Sweet St.,” auxiliary member tables were decorated with delectable desserts, pastries and other treats. Each table had a different “sweet” theme, ranging from fondue to donuts, and the tables were raffled off at the end of the afternoon.

Attendees browsed an assortment of selections from local vendors. Patty Nalepa of Hinsdale, who recently launched a new business, showcased her “VIP” wrapping service, ISnapWrap, through which she wraps gifts using paper containing a collage of personal photos custom-tailored for each client.

Guests also viewed demonstrations by the pastry chef and mixologist at Paul Virant’s local restaurants, Vistro and Vie. “I hope you’ve enjoyed your time on ‘Sweet St.,’ ” chapter president Amy Bailey said at the podium. “We are absolutely thrilled that you’re all here; we are so grateful for your support.”

Bailey thanked auxiliary members for their dedication and contributions to making “Sweet St.” a successful event.

“Our chapter of 42 women have worked hard this year to bring a fun, fresh experience to you,” she said.

“From the street performers to living statues to the much-anticipated member table designs, to the delicious food

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demonstrations to the 17 wonderful vendors, no detail was too small.”

Bailey also recognized members from surrounding auxiliary chapters who were in attendance, including Clarendon Hills, Oak Brook and Downers Grove.

Proceeds from Tablescapes will benefit IWS, which provides medical and dental services to uninsured and underinsured women, children and families. Founded in 1911, IWS is now headquartered at the Angel Harvey Infant Welfare Society Health Center in the Logan Square neighborhood on Chicago’s northwest side.

“Today, Infant Welfare is a robust organization where we’re serving about 30,000 women and children each year, providing healthcare for them,” IWS CEO Robin McGinnis said.

McGinnis said in addition to addressing basic medical and dental needs, IWS also provides optometry, mental health and child development services at the clinic.

“Your support—your dollars—really help us make ends meet,” she said.

“Without your support, we could not continue to provide the quality services that we do at Infant Welfare.”

For more information about the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago, visit www. infantwelfaresociety.org.

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HINSDALE MAGAZINE PRESENTS

RISING STARS

OLD FAVORITES

NEW FINDS

by Kerrie Kennedy | Photography by Jim Prisching

SEAFOOD

Season What better way to herald the arrival of spring than with fresh seafood at a restaurant that celebrates both the American fisherman and the American farmer? At Parkers Restaurant in Downers Grove, executive chef Pat

Cedar plank roasted salmon with charred lemon at Parkers Restaurant in Downers Grove.

McLaughlin has been preparing for months, staying in daily contact with responsible fisheries in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, where he imports fresh, high-quality wild salmon, halibut and crab. He then wood grills, roasts, and steams it into perfection on your plate. At the same time, McLaughlin has been staying in close touch with the family-owned Chef’s Garden Farm, his source for sustainable, seasonal

produce, the perfect complement to his delicate, fresh fish dishes. “Everything starts opening up in the spring,” McLaughlin says. “The fishermen are out again, and the produce—asparagus, artichokes, peas—well, it’s nothing short of fantastic!” Our thoughts exactly.

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Health There once was a time when eating healthy meant forgoing chic restaurants and their diet-sabotaging, arteryblocking menus. Luckily, eating well and eating out are no longer mutually exclusive. At Seasons 52 in Oakbrook Center, for example, nothing on the menu contains more than 475 calories— take that, Lean Cuisine!—and dieters can delight in a wide range of delicious flatbreads, entrée salads, grilled fish, tacos and even pasta. Seasons 52 also offers more than 50 different wines by the glass, making it the perfect girls’ night out restaurant.

3 Oakbrook Center, Oak Brook, 630-571-4752, seasons52.com

La Grange newcomer Prasino, which means “green” in Greek, has taken healthy eating to a whole new level, offering hormone and antibioticfree meats, sustainable seafood, organic produce and eggs, as well as artisanal wine, beer and spirits. With a commitment to sustainability—reflected in everything from its local, seasonal ingredients to its “green” décor and cleaning products—this eco-friendly restaurant is also committed to serving good food. The southern Californiainspired menu features everything from fish tacos to sushi, grilled meats to burgers, soups to salads, and not surprisingly, a number of gluten-free and vegan options. The cocktail list is extensive and imaginative, with names like “First Date,” “Sage Advice” or our favorite, “Raisins in the Tahona.”

93 S. La Grange Road, La Grange, 708469-7058, prasino.com

LET’S DO

Brunch The sizzle of a made-to-order omelet as it hits the frying pan—the whoosh of champagne as it fills the glass—the buzz of conversation and the clink of china.

This is the sound of Sunday brunch— and some might say the sound of spring itself. Here’s where to enjoy it:

The Clubhouse. From the oysters to the shrimp cocktail, the prime rib to the chocolate fountain, The Clubhouse delivers a classic Sunday brunch that’s both delicious and affordable.

298 Oakbrook Center, Oakbrook Terrace, 630-472-0600, theclubhouse.com

Drury Lane. Featuring more than ten different stations of food, including a yogurt station, an omelet station, a seafood bar, a carving station, an Italian station, dessert station and even a Bloody Mary station, Drury Lane offers an over-thetop experience, featuring complimentary champagne, mimosas and Bellinis—and if you wish, a show afterwards. “Billy Elliot the Musical” debuts on April 10.

100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, 630-530-8300, drurylaneoakbrook.com

Reel Club. Seafood and sushi are the star attractions of this brunch, from fresh shucked oysters to Alaskan crab, and assorted Maki rolls to smoked salmon. Reel Club also offers a waffle station, a carving station, a full hot buffet, made-to-order donuts, a make-your-own sundae bar and a Bloody Mary bar.

272 Oakbrook Center, Oakbrook Terrace, 630-368-9400, reel-club.com

Seared cod, quinoa, dried fruit, cinnamon, black mission fig and pineapple salsa at Prasino in La Grange

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HINSDALE MAGAZINE PRESENTS OUTDOOR LIVING 2015

BRINGING THE INDOORS OUT

by Kerrie Kennedy

A LOCAL COUPLE TURNS THEIR BACKYARD INTO A YEAR-ROUND OASIS

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t started the way many renovation projects begin—with a wish for more space, specifically a room in which to entertain family and friends. However, the room they envisioned would not be in the house. Instead, they wanted it in the backyard.

After months of admiring lushlylandscaped and fully-stocked outdoor rooms in Hinsdale, homeowners Joe and Dana Pondelicek decided it was time to build one of their own. So, they enlisted Wingren Landscape architect Jay Zumbahlen to help them turn their dreams into a reality. On their wish list were a fire pit, eating and lounging areas, and perhaps a water feature.

Right off the bat, they faced a number of challenges.

“This is a unique site, because the yard slopes off right at about the middle,” Zumbahlen said. “I decided to take advantage of the elevation change by incorporating a retaining wall and some steps down. It gives the appearance of an overhang deck.”

With that problem solved, Zumbahlen realized he needed to address the issue of scale. The couple’s large house seemed to overwhelm the lot. Something was needed to balance it out.

“We brought in some big, mature trees, and suddenly, the house was a little more in scale with the property,” Zumbahlen said.

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dictated by the home’s sweeping terrain and the pastoral peacefulness of its surroundings. As such, there was no need to select a specific color palette. Instead, Zumbahlen infused the landscape with a lively plethora of blues, pinks, purples, yellows and reds. In order to provide the yearround color the couple desired, Zumbahlen used a variety of material— much of it indigenous— including feather reed grasses, flowering crab trees, maple and blue spruce trees, hydrangeas, roses, purple cone flowers, Russian Sage and a mix of ground cover that featured Pachysandra and Vinca.

The bulk of the three month-long project was spent on hardscaping. Among the bells and whistles were a pergola, an outdoor bar and a fire pit.

“Like most of my clients, the Pondeliceks really wanted an outdoor cooking and entertaining area,” Zumbahlen said. “There’s been a big surge in demand for this over the last five years.”

Zumbahlen said the other hot item is an outdoor fireplace or a fire pit.

“It’s a great way to extend the outdoor season well into fall,” he said. “Along those lines, we always like to recommend putting in a shade or a roof structure, to extend the use during inclement weather.”

Perhaps the most unique feature of the project is its waterfall, which harvests fresh rainwater.

“I collected rainwater from the roof, put the system in the ground, and used it to circulate the waterfall,” Zumbahlen said.

It was a time-consuming project, but homeowner Dana Pondelicek said it was well worth it.

“We get a ton of positive comments on the waterfall,” she said. “During the day, it attracts a lot of birds, especially yellow finches. At night, we have a light that shines on it, and you can see some of the aquatic plants that live at the bottom.”

In fact, Pondelicek loves the water feature so much, she created a fairy garden next to it, with ground cover, wild flowers and a little house fit for a fairy. While she maintains it herself, she leaves the heavylifting to the professionals.

Of course, the one downside of an outdoor renovation project is the monthly maintenance that Mother Nature requires.

Luckily, for this couple, it’s short-lived.

“The first couple of years are critical, so we do maintain the site with fertilization, watering and trimming,” Zumbahlen said.

“Once we’re done, it’s really no work at all. Then, they can just sit back, relax and enjoy the beautiful landscape we installed.”

They’ve already started.

“All our friends want to come over, so we entertain almost every weekend, and even some weeknights,” Pondelicek says.

“At night, we always have one fireplace going for ambiance and another one for making s’mores.” n

Perhaps the most unique feature of the project is its waterfall, which harvests fresh rainwater.

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The McCleary Group Presents

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Nestled in the Woodlands, this sprawling estate is situated on nearly 3/4 of an acre. Surrounded by greenery, homeowners enjoy the privacy of a beautiful backdrop that’s perfect for entertaining guests and hosting family. There’s never a dull moment in this back yard with a sport court, putting green, dual patios, expansive views and room for a pool.

The 8,500 square feet home has been recently renovated, and now combines the perfect mixture of baroque character, regal charm and modern amenities. The vaulted ceilings and large windows create a space that is bright and inviting.

Highlights include a stunning, new white chef’s kitchen, soft gray accents, rich dark hardwood floors, detailed woodwork throughout the house and brilliant new light fixtures. Enjoy a spectacular first floor master suite and second floor master suite each overlooking the expansive grounds. List Price $2,150,000

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Bring your basket to search for eggs filled with surprises in Robbins Park. Just prior to the egg hunt and immediately after, the Village of Hinsdale Parks and Recreation Department is sponsoring a petting zoo. For more information, visit thecommunityhouse.org.

We pay our consignors 61% of Ebay sales (MORE than all the competition) We have a Global Audience No Seasonal Discrimination FREE Pick Up for eBay consignment

2ND ANNUAL HINSDALE HOME SHOW Saturday, April 11 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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This day-long expo will feature educational seminars about various home design and remodeling topics, and local vendors in the industry. For more details, visit hinsdalechamber.com.

OPENING DAY 2015

Tuesday, April 14 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Graue Mill and Museum 3800 York Road, Oak Brook Graue Mill and Museum is booking group tours and

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field trips for its 2015 season. Contact Cathy Kolessar, director of operations at 630-920-9720, x27. For more information, please visit grauemill.org.

JOIN THE HUMAN RACE TEAM 5K RUN/2M WALK Your First Communion Event

Saturday, April 25 9 a.m.

Esplanade at Locust Point 1901 Butterfield Road, Downers Grove The DuPage Human Race is a 5K fundraiser with over 1,800 people supporting more than 50 local charities.

Come out and enjoy this feel-good, family and petfriendly race event. For general information about the event, visit dupagehumanrace.org.

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8TH ANNUAL WALK THE WALK FOR AUTISM

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Walk three miles and show your support for the children and families at Charlie’s Gift Autism Center who are dealing with the effects of autism and related disorders.

Visit thecommunityhouse.org to register or make a donation for the walk.

KarenHoodPhotography@hotmail.com

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BETH BURTT is a broker and owner of Brush Hill Realtors and founding director of Burr Ridge Bank and Trust. Beth has been a top producer in Hinsdale and the surrounding areas for over 30 years. Her superlative level of service and unsurpassed knowledge of the area allow her to cater to her clients needs. Passion, commitment and expertise have been the driving force for Beth’s success.

As a lifelong resident of the Hinsdale area, she has extensive knowledge of the community, personalized service, unending dedication, keen sense of the real estate market, aggressive marketing strategies, and enthusiastic personality are a guarantee for unsurpassed service.

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ore than 200 people gathered to support the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago (IWS) at “An Enchanted Evening,” the Clarendon Hills chapter’s annual benefit, at Butterfield Country Club on Feb. 21.

Couples coruscated in their finest evening attire, as they enjoyed a performance by Salt Creek Ballet and danced to the lively beats of the Al Sofia Band later in the evening.

Guests bid on a variety of live and silent auction items, including an autographed Ernie Banks bat, a Jack Nicklaus-signed Open Championship program, and oneweek stays at condominiums in Naples, Fla., and Sedona, Ariz.

Proceeds from “An Enchanted Evening” will benefit the Angel Harvey Infant Welfare Society Health Center, a clinic in the Logan Square neighborhood that provides medical care for thousands of uninsured and underinsured women and children each year.

“The Infant Welfare Society of Chicago provides critical services to a community that otherwise may not have access to those resources,” chapter president Stephanie Ley told the audience.

“Tonight’s hope is to raise a lot of money to help continue those services,” ex-officio Suzanne Austin said.

Austin said the goal is to raise $75,000 for IWS through the benefit, and that all of the women in the chapter played a role in making “An Enchanted Evening” a success.

“This organization right now is 44 women from Clarendon Hills that puts on this dynamic, very energetic fundraiser to raise money for the clinic,” she said. “It’s a lot of love and effort that goes into putting this together. ...

“And the effort that the women put in this year—every single person was so involved, and the turnout was beautiful.”

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Approximately 50 men from Hinsdale and the surrounding suburbs gathered to play poker and paddle tennis, as well as enjoy food, drinks, raffles and watch college basketball. The men’s event, which is a precursor to CH+A’s annual Derby Day event in May, was chaired by Kevin Lannert and Matt Guido, and raised $5000 for CH+A. Children’s Home + Aid is a leading child and family service agency in Illinois. Each year, it protects, educates and counsels more than 40,000 children, youth and families to overcome the overwhelming obstacles of poverty, abuse and neglect. The dedicated team of staff and volunteers deliver more that 70 programs, including foster care, adoptions services, early childhood education, family counseling and youth services in 40 Illinois counties.

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This year’s theme, “Denim and Diamonds,” was apropos for the 25th auction, and also allowed parents to dress more casually.

Upon arriving, guests enjoyed an assortment of appetizers and hors d’oeuvres, before playing casino games later in the evening.

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Local radio DJ Eric Ferguson, also an SIJ parent and Hinsdale resident, served as emcee for the evening. Fr. William DeSalvo offered a prayer before dinner commenced.

Proceeds from the evening will support the school’s parent school association (PSA), which is responsible for raising $300,000 to contribute its share of the operating budget this school-

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Spring cleaning is here, and it is not limited to your physical closets and junk drawers. It’s time to clean the clutter from your mind. More than 30 percent of your thoughts are waste. Many of these thoughts can actually sabotage your goals and dreams. These unnecessary, extra thoughts can weigh you down, while shackling your imagination and restricting your freedom. These thoughts occur at sporadic, uninvited times, and they attract negative emotions that wreak havoc on your life. Some of these useless thoughts can linger for weeks, months and even years. It’s time to clear them from your performance pathway like debris from the sidewalk.

First, recognize why these extra thoughts have arrived on the screen of space in your mind. Ask yourself the following ten questions: 1. Do I have too many goals that lack the discipline of planning?

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9. Do I put me last and think more about other people than myself?

10. Do I have too little confidence?

Any “yes” answer to these questions can be the cause of feelings of impatience, frustration, low confidence, worry, anxiety, anger, jealousy, sadness, apathy, misery, despair, low self-esteem or depression. Yikes!

It’s time to get mentally organized by thinking less, so you can produce more.

FORGET-ABLES: These are people, places and things that you do not need to dwell on. Forget about...

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Next—this is your new battle cry. Forget about it.

Negative people. Make these people positive, eliminate them entirely from your life, avoid them at all costs, or immunize yourself from their negativity. Forget about it.

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agenda, and some have agendas they don’t even know about. Trying to figure all of this out is a waste of time, unless you’re embarking on a career in psychology. Forget about it.

Assumption thinking. “She’ll probably want me to host this; she always does.” Why go here? Why try to predict the unpredictable?

Why ponder the imponderable, unquantifiable, inestimable, incalculable, immeasurable and the virtual unknown? This should make anyone tired. Forget about it.

Being perfect. Are you approaching life like you’re planning your wedding? I know the devil is in the details; however, life is more fun when there is some spontaneity. Wing it sometimes. My favorite vacations had no itinerary. Mistakes? Being perfect? Forget about it.

SEE-ABLES: Spring cleaning from a physical sense will help you mentally. Organize and clean the areas of your life that you visually see each and every day. Coming home to a made bed is so much better than a room that is disheveled. You know this. Delegate these tasks, or roll up your sleeves and get to work. Do it; you’ll feel so much better.

• Organize and clean your bathroom area, closet, bedroom, garage, car (inside and out) and office desk.

• Organized “see-ables” will mentally set you free, and give you the feeling of discipline and power over the “stuff” in your life.

DO-ABLES: Do these things for more control over your life.

• For the rest of this month, declare a moratorium on too much thought. Proclaim this time as your “national silence month.”

• Choose one well-defined goal that you will reach by the month’s end. Once completed, select another goal to be completed by the end of the next month. Make these goals measurable; hold yourself accountable.

• Tomorrow (after reading this), reduce your speaking by 50 percent.

Make this “observation day.” Observe your surroundings; notice the season changing. Watch for positive people; identify the negative people. Do not judge—just be aware.

• Abandon the need to talk on your cell phone. Only make calls that are 100 percent necessary.

• Walk alone every day. Smile to yourself regarding your power of silence.

The best in the world think less and produce more. Spring is here; it’s time to throw out what you don’t need. Get busy with your “forgetables,” “see-ables,” “do-ables” and “be-ables.”

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FORGIVEN. I’m not sure there is any word more important to the quality of our lives or the health of our households or the state of our souls than that one little word. Our peace of mind hangs on it. Our connection with one another depends upon it. Our eternal future turns on how fully we take into ourselves and pour out to others the powerful grace contained in that statement: “You are forgiven.”

wrong. They offended against what is good or right. Some important principle or sacred boundary was violated. A covenant—spoken or unspoken—was broken. To not be upset about this would actually be a further wrong. Some kind of strong response seems demanded. Cold revenge or hot retribution naturally comes to mind, and even the thought of forgiveness is hard. It feels like weakness.

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3. Forgiveness is hard, because a person did something that seriously wounded us. Most of us experience slights or irritations at the hands of others every day. Someone forgets to say “please” or “thank you.” They’re late for the appointment, butt ahead of us in the line, or don’t clean up after themselves. We don’t have to “forgive” these sorts of things. We might need to discuss these matters, but we probably can or should just shake them off. But there are some actions we cannot just “rise above.”

Somebody ravages our trust or tears away a piece of our life or stabs at our heart. They savage our people, our pride or our possessions in some way that leaves us reeling or bleeding, and we can’t just shrug it off.

And yet, we sure hope that forgiveness isn’t too hard, don’t we? When it is we who have utterly blown it, it would be good if forgiveness were possible. If we find ourselves standing before our Creator one day, we pray we’ll find great mercy there. Almost every person awake to the moral or spiritual dimension of life wants to be forgiven of his or her sins.

Wouldn’t you think, then, that in spite of how hard it is, one of the most vivid and pervasive attributes of all of us who feel this way would be our remarkable forgiveness towards others, our passion for extending grace, our incredible zeal for bridging divides and reconciling differences? Jesus once told a very sobering story about a deeply forgiven person who still didn’t get this (Matthew 18:21-35).

Yet, sometimes, people do get it.

Some of you know how Pope John Paul II went to prison to visit Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who fired hot bullets into the Pope’s body, trying to kill him. Miraculously, the two eventually became famous friends. I read recently of an Armenian girl who nursed back to health the Turkish soldier who had killed her parents and raped her and her sisters.

“Why didn’t you kill me?” the soldier asked when he woke up and realized who it was that now stood over him. The girl replied, “Because I am a follower of him who said, ‘Love your enemies.’ ” In a recent interview, the mother of two of the Coptic Christians beheaded in Libya was asked what she would do if some of those ISIS members showed up at her door. She said, “I would welcome them into my home in the hope that their hearts could be opened to the love of God.” The general bishop of the Coptic Church said, “I think as Christians, it is our mandate to forgive. It is what we do.”

For most of us, these are unthinkable scenarios, aren’t they? We cannot imagine how we could ever get to a place where forgiveness for such outrageous sins would even be conceivable. We pray that God would never allow us to sit in the position where we might need to contemplate such things.

But what if you and I could at least get un-stuck in regard to the lesser crimes of others against us? Why would we actually do that? What would be involved in doing that? And what might be the outcome of walking that narrow road? This is what I want to explore with you in the next couple of articles. Let’s figure out how you and I might live in the power of that amazing word writ large over the life and cross of Jesus: “forgiven.”

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Dr. Dan Meyer is the senior pastor at Christ Church of Oak Brook.

WHY IS FORGIVENESS SO HARD?

I often hear people speak as if forgiveness should be a routine matter or a casual process, but it isn’t, is it? Sometimes, in spite of all we know or all that we in our best moments would like to do, we just can’t seem to bring ourselves—or maybe don’t even want to bring ourselves—to the point of forgiveness. Why is that? Ethics professor Lew Smedes once suggested that it is for this simple reason: It’s because a person did something to us that seriously wounded us and wronged us. Think about the import of each of those phrases with me.

1. Forgiveness is hard, because it involves a person. We don’t stay mad at the chair on which we stub our toe. We might be disappointed if the Apple Watch isn’t what it was all cracked up to be, but we’re not distraught about it. Unless we’re nuts, we don’t put our hope and trust in inanimate objects and products. But because God has designed life to work on the basis of relationships, we do invest our heart in people.

When individuals—especially those close to us—fail us, it can be devastating.

2. Forgiveness is hard, secondly, because a person did something to us.

Something was done; we didn’t make it up; something actually happened.

Buddhism is the other religion that puts a lot of focus on forgiveness, but the reason is different. Buddhism teaches that evil is an illusion—that it doesn’t really exist. There really is nothing to forgive. But the Bible teaches that “matter matters”—that “stuff” really happens. There may be some debate about what actually transpired. That’s often what makes forgiveness even more difficult; people disagree about the facts. But something happened to you that changed things in a way that now needs some kind of resolution.

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