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The Day Chicago Wept NORTH SHORE DOCUMENTARIAN’S NEW FINDINGS ABOUT SS EASTLAND DISASTER PREMIERES THIS MONTH ON CHANNEL 7. BY DAVID RUTTER THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

Within 20 minutes on the misty, damp morning of July 24, 1915, death sat down at the party. The day had been carefully designed as the social beacon of Chicago’s working-class summer that year. Within those 1,200 seconds, it would become the day Chicago wept. Only a plaque on the Chicago River’s south wall at the LaSalle Street bridge marks the tragedy. The Eastland capsized at that spot—killing 844 Chicagoans, mostly young Czech and Polish immigrants. For 18 years, Evanston native Harvey Moshman has been obsessed with the worst single tragedy in Chicago history. He could not escape curiosity and anger. And now, with his second WTTV-Channel 7 television documentary on the Eastland disaster debuting at 8 p.m. July 25, he can put down the sword and relax. Continued on PG 10

INSTA-GLAM LAKE FOREST MOM AND SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCER KATIE MAY LAUNCHES A NEW LINE OF CLOTHING AND BLANKETS. BY ELAINE DOREMUS THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

It wasn’t exactly on Katie May’s radar to get back into the fashion industry. The Lake Forest mom had her hands full with her family—husband Greg and two young daughters, Arabella and Windsor—not to mention an ongoing whole house renovation over the past year. But after posting images of the pajamas she was making for herself and her girls last year, she couldn’t ignore the encouragement from her nearly 20,000 Instagram followers. “I started by making myself and my girls’ clothing,” says May, explaining that she started with pajamas because she had a hard time finding pajamas that were cute, comfortable, and affordable and her girls liked sleeping in nightgowns. “When I found that I finally had time to be creative again, I would hop on my Singer sewing machine any chance I got and make them pretty things.” Her eponymous retail clothing and accessory line, Shop Katie May, was born, and May grew her business slowly, selling pajamas and robes for girls and women, soft blankets, and her organic skin care line, online. The limited selection of items was popular and sold out often (especially around the holidays) with customers Continued on PG 8

Katie May of Lake Forest with daughters Windsor and Arabella. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ASHBEY FROM LOLLIPOP-UPS

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NEWS INSTA-GLAM Cont. from PG 1 wanting more. Her pajamas and robes are comfortable and wearable. “They are made with the softest materials that move with your body while you sleep,” May adds. May is not new to the fashion biz. As a 21-year-old who had studied fashion design and marketing in Madison, Wisconsin, she opened and operated a retail store there for five years. Called Sukara Sterling (her middle and maiden names), her boutique carried casual clothing, cocktail dresses, and a few of her own pieces. That was all before her career in marketing (including starting her own internet marketing company) in Chicago, and marriage and children. So, when the pajama and blanket line started to take off, May wasn’t sure she wanted to get back into fashion. “I know it’s a crazy industry,” she says. “But I was encouraged to go for it by my followers who have been really supportive. I also wanted to show my girls that women can do anything. I always think of them when I’m working; I want them to know they can be anything they want to be.” Fast-forward to current day and May is about to expand some of her current offerings while launching a new clothing line. “I’m bringing back the pajamas, which is why I started doing all this to begin with,” she says. “They’ll have the same classic cut with a cotton fabric and different trims than you’ve seen before. Also, I still offer all the same organic all-natural coconut based Sukki Skin care products I started with.” In addition, May says, “Basically, everything else for my clothing line is new. My past collection was pajamas and private label. The fall 2019 collection is all designed by me and it’s a full collection, not just pajamas anymore.” May says she wanted to make a wearable collection that could cover anything from lunch

with girlfriends, an event at the club, an evening gala, or even just clothing for lounging and going to bed. “I have a beautiful evening gown, a darling two piece that is so versatile you could wear it

to lunch or to an event and pair the top with your favorite denim when you want to be more causal,” she says by way of example. “I’m also offering several dresses and skirts and my favorite pair of slacks that give you this sensational feeling like your wearing butter.” May’s children line—which now includes tops, skirts, pants, dresses, and pajamas—now runs from 2T to size 8. “It’s adorable and not so matchy-matchy in terms of the being the exact same pieces as the women’s line but more complimentary items using the same fabrics and aesthetic,” she explains. May gets her inspiration from many places, touching on trends a bit but staying classic enough so that customers can keep and wear items for a long time. “I’m currently crushing over floral prints so you will see a lot of florals,” she reveals. “I’m also loving dainty details like ruffles, puff sleeves, pops of dainty trim, that I then mix with materials like leather. I also love a raw hem so you will see that on some of the silk pieces. “I’m loving organza right now and have a gorgeous winter blue full organza dress with a slight ruffle hem that would be perfect for a cocktail party. I’ve also married two of my favorite trends: floral and jumper,” she laughs. May says she’s also excited to be adding a whole new category her site: Dry Mats are a picnic- or beach-style blanket that really keeps your bottom dry. “I like to say these were created by the mom in me. My kids were always sitting on the wet grass or on a blanket they thought would keep them dry, but still getting wet,” she explains. “So I created a dry blanket that actually works. I sell them in vintage and unique patterns.” To give them an extra pop, May added a signature orange threading detail and some “super funky” trims. “It wasn’t my intention to start selling them but I had so much interest through Instagram, I knew I had to add them,” she says. “I’ve also added other Sukki Skin products but I do them

in small batches so I have a hard time keeping them in stock. I’m currently working on a master plan for that.” Seems like all is going according to a master plan that May can’t help but pursue. “I’m inspired by creativity and people, and I’m thankful for my followers and that people find me interesting enough to want to see what’s going on in my life,” May sums up. “I enjoy being creative whether it be cooking, planning a birthday party for my kids, or designing my line. I encourage everyone to follow their passions and do what makes them happy.” Follow Katie May on Instagram @simply_may, read her blog at simplymay.com, and visit shopkatiemay.com to view her line of clothing and skin care items.

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NEWS CHICAGO WEPT Cont. from PG 1 “I think,” he says with a long pause to calculate his words, “that this is my last one.” As for producing partner Chuck Coppola, is he done? “Hundreds of family members’ stories left to be told.” He still grips the sword. What happened to the mostly young women and children who perished still angers both, 18 years after their first documentary. The more they learn makes them angrier. Anger is appropriate, because humans caused this tragedy, and were never held accountable. Eastland: Chicago’s Deadliest Day might make you angry, too. At the very least, the 85-minute documentary forged with a team of North Shore filmmakers and funded by the Chicago Marine Heritage Society will reveal how Chicago’s heart was broken that day. Music composer Steve Rashid and audio designer Sam Fishkin also are Evanston-based participants who joined the team for three years of heavy film design. A documentary that opens a wide lens will hint why the Eastland casts a barely discernible blip on Chicago’s cultural radar. There were no Astors, Guggenheims, or Strausses on Eastland as they had been on Titanic. Just immigrant kids. No one spoke for them. The excursion steamer Eastland had taken 2,200 partiers aboard, most young workers at Western Electric’s phone manufacturing plant in Hawthorne (now Cicero). The Lake Michigan trip promised a day of company-sponsored picnics, PHOTOS COURTESY OF EASTLAND DISASTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY (EASTLANDDISASTER.ORG) music, games, carnivals, and celebrations at the waterfront park in Michigan City, Indiana. added sinew to history. unsteady. Eastland was beautiful, but bore a bad But in those 20 minutes, as the Eastland’s empty This collaboration seems to answer several reputation. ballast tanks fought pointlessly to keep the ship puzzles, including employing CGI (computer Secondly, the 844 who died, 1,300 who escaped, upright, it began to list left—then faster as the generated imaging) that visually shows the minute- and the thousands of relatives left behind were crowd was pushed below decks, before suddenly by-minute death throes of Eastland as eyewit- never compensated for the horror. No one even there was no escape. The “Speed Queen of the nesses say it occurred. tried. The corporate owners swallowed up the Great Lakes” lurched once and rolled on its side But why does Chicago not commemorate the evidence in two trials. Moshman and Coppola in one horrific fall that killed 844 partiers within event as a larger human tableau than the Chicago clearly imply the fix was in. minutes. Fire (300 deaths) or even the Hindenberg (36 “We didn’t go looking for villains—but we found Said a rescue worker on the shore: “The sound deaths)? them,” Coppola says. Famed attorney Clarence of the children screaming was too much to bear.” Moshman and Coppola offer evidence: Darrow successfully defended the captain at trial, Those on the left side of the capsizing ship died. First, the Eastland should never have been but never again said a public word about his legal Those on the right side lived. Whole families per- cleared to sail that day, or any other day, with role in hiding the truth. ished in each other’s arms—including 22 families passengers. Two marine architects, a decade apart Another discovery was that the owners’ not-soof mother, father, and children. Three sets of ,independently had issued stern, unequivocal warn- subtle spin on the story that passengers had rushed engaged couples died clutched in embrace. ings that the ship was inherently unseaworthy. A to the left side of the 265-foot ship, and caused Amidst the tragedy and chaos, there was stories succession of five owners all ignored the warnings the catastrophe, didn’t happen. “The passengers of personal heroism—strangers, police, and fire- in favor of extending profits. Compliant maritime were squeezed together too tightly to move at all,” fighters jumping into the Chicago River to save regulators stood mute. Moshman says without equivocation. anyone they could reach. It was a shallow, top-heavy ship designed for A handful of factors—original awkward design, Moshman and Coppola dived into a rich cache cargo. It had almost capsized twice before with 100 tons of post-Titanic mandated lifeboats stored of data unknown 20 years ago. Each of four authors half as many aboard. Every one of the constant on top decks, concrete decks replacing rotten who have produced scholarly works in the interval refinements over 13 years turned it faster, and more wooden planks, totally inadequate ballast tanks—

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all made the Eastland a ship built to die. Chicago’s heartache was intense, but relatively brief as an officially noticed event. Gravediggers and morticians worked around the clock. Some immigrant parishes conducted simultaneous funerals 30 at a time. Chicago’s mayor ordered that newsreel motion pictures taken at the scene of the disaster be banned in local theaters. “They were seen around the world, but not in Chicago,” Moshman says. “Our documentary shows those films for the first time. If I have one hope for this documentary is that it leads to the Eastland story being taught in Chicago public schools. It’s not now as far as I know.” The most surprising discovery of all? The Eastland did not die that day. It was refloated, saved at auction for $45,000, redesigned again, and sold to the Navy Reserve as a Great Lakes training gunboat. It was renamed, oddly enough, the USS Wilmette after the North Shore community. Why Wilmette? No one knows ... yet. Be sure to tune in later this month.

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A T-shirt triggered Kevin Lamp’s interest in college volleyball nearly 10 years ago. The future Lake Forest High School graduate was a third-grader in Lake Bluff at the time, celebrating his birthday. He opened the present from his older brother, Henry Lamp (LFHS, ’12), and wore the gift—a red-and-white-and-black Stanford

group, and the coaches work you really hard (Lamp and his SPVC U-16 Elite teammates took runnerup honors at club nationals in 2017). I don’t mind the hard work and the dedication you need to show to reach a high level in volleyball. I’m certainly not going to miss the drives to and from Aurora; sometimes it takes two hours to get there. My mom and dad, Kirsti and Lennart who are natives of Estonia, did most of the driving. I’d have to eat dinner at 2:30 or 3 in the afternoon, before the drive, because I wouldn’t be able to eat again until 10 p.m.

My brother Henry is

TNSW: Your favorite moment as an LFHS Scout?

still my closest friend, a big supporter. My

KL: Junior year, we beat Warren at Warren for a regional championship. We had split our two previous matches with Warren that year. That meant a lot, winning a regional title, because it had been 10 years since our program last won one. Everything came together for us that night. Everybody played well. We were super locked in.

whole family, really, has been my best support system since I started playing

TNSW: What are the sports backgrounds of some of your family members?

volleyball seriously.

University men’s volleyball tee—for the first time shortly thereafter. “I still have it,” says Kevin Lamp, a 2019 LFHS graduate, a four-year varsity starter for the Scouts’ boys volleyball program, and a 2019 member of USA’s U-21 Men’s Pan-American Cup. “It’s deep in one of my drawers at home.” The 6-foot-5, 180-pound Lamp earned the right, thanks to an athletic scholarship, to don an official Stanford University Cardinal men’s volleyball uniform beginning next spring. One of the nation’s top outside hitters and a third-year Sports Performance Volleyball Club performer, Lamp—slated to start his next chapter as a student-athlete in mid-September—fielded a host of questions at a Starbucks in Lake Forest last month. The North Shore Weekend: What excites you about Stanford and men’s volleyball at the Pac-12 conference school? Kevin Lamp: The incredible academics, the culture of the program, the world-class facilities on campus. I’m thinking of majoring in either architecture or computer science. Stanford lost in the quarterfinals of the Pac-12 Tournament in the spring, but the preseason national volleyball rankings for next year are out already, and Stanford is

LIGHT FANTASTIC: Outside hitter and Stanford recruit Kevin Lamp (blue uniform) was a four-year varsity volleyball starter at Lake Forest High School and helped USA’s U-21 men’s team reach a quarterfinal at the Pan-American Cup in Peru in May. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER

KL: My dad was very good at volleyball and track when he was young. He was a decathlete in track, and he made national volleyball teams. My mom, she was a heptathlete. My grandfather Jurgen is in his 70s, and he’s a world champion in the long jump, the event I did when I was in middle school. When my grandfather was here for my graduation, he worked out and trained at my school. He looks great; he looks like he’s 55 years old, maybe 60.

No. 2. I’m looking forward to battling for a starting role.

TNSW: What drew you to volleyball at a young age?

TNSW: Care to share memories of your first day as a freshman volleyball player at LFHS? KL: It was a day in January, an open-gym session, months before the start of the season. I started on a court with freshman and sophomore players. Some of the players on the varsity court had seen me play in club tournaments. Libero Will Tadel was one of the older guys. He and others pulled me off the court with the younger players and let me compete with them. That season was such a blur; I don’t remember much. TNSW: You started your prep career as a setter and ended it as an outside hitter. Why the shift to the front row? KL: I attended a summer volleyball camp at Loyola University after my freshman year. The LU coach, Mark Hulse, told me to give outside hitting a try at the camp. I loved it right away. I still enjoy

the impact an outside hitter can have in volleyball matches. My first five or six matches in my sophomore season, I played outside hitter. But I returned to setting after our setter Justin McCartney got hurt. I set the rest of the season. TNSW: You endured a tough ending to your senior season after returning from the Pan-American Cup in Peru. What happened?

KL: Watching my brother (Henry, now an engineer) play the sport at the club level was basically my introduction to volleyball. The sport looked really fun. He was an outside hitter and middle in club and an outside hitter for the high school team. Henry is still my closest friend, a big supporter. My whole family, really, has been my best support system since I started playing volleyball seriously.

KL: I strained a meniscus (knee ligament) in a match against Stevenson. Bad landing. I thought I’d be able to recover and play in the playoffs. But, TNSW: Any hobbies? after warming up before our match against Barrington for a regional title, the decision was made KL: FIFA video game and playing in pick-up to sit that out, too. I wanted to play. I was told basketball games. playing would have been too risky; playing on it could have worsened the injury. TNSW: Dream job? TNSW: What do you like most about the Aurora-based Sports Performance Volleyball Club (SPVC)? KL: We practice a ton, we’re a super-disciplined

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How Mary Lou Bilder-Gold, former model and North Shore volunteer extraordinaire, has welcomed every challenge life sent her way. BY SHERRY THOMAS ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY BLITT

You want to talk about her modeling career, and how as a single mother in the 1960s, she defied all the odds by climbing the corporate ladder at Sears and forging an identity and life all her own. But these days, the accomplishment Mary Lou Bilder-Gold of Winnetka is most proud of is the work she did caring for her late husband Norbert Gold, who died in November 2017 after a 77-year battle with diabetes. “Life has been different for me these past few years. I’m not that interesting anymore,” she says, explaining that the fact that her “Norb” lived so long is its own sort of miracle. “I’ve done a lot in my life but I feel that this was the most important part. My loyalty was to Norb during these last eight years. He was diagnosed with diabetes at age 16. He was supposed to die at 30 years old and he lived to 93. He used to say, that’s because of you— because you take such good care of me.” In a life that’s worthy of its own screenplay, these are the scenes that round out a happy ending. Now 82 years old, Mary Lou was a working single mom in the 1970s when she met Norbert, an accomplished lawyer and a single parent at a Parents Without Partners meeting. They were married for 45 years and lived in Evanston before moving to Winnetka in 1993. However, to understand the rest of the story behind the woman who served the North Shore community for decades, we must start at the beginning. Flashbacks of those times can be found in Mary Lou’s scrapbooks, oversized “look books” from her days as a model. To say she looked like Audrey Hepburn is an understatement. The likeness and look is uncanny. And right there it is, blazoned across the top of her portfolio and headshots: “The TODAY girl for tomorrow’s assignments.” “Oh yes,” she says, smiling. “That’s me. With fewer years, fewer pounds, and fewer wrinkles.” Those who have met and served on boards with Mary Lou Bilder-Gold since she “retired” to Winnetka more than two decades ago may have already heard some of her tales. The kind that might have leaked out during her time working on the boards of Sarah Siddons Society and Rotary Club of Winnetka-Northfield; chairing multiple house walks and events at the Winnetka Woman’s Club (now the Winnetka Club); and single-handedly running the Winnetka Welcome Wagon through the Winnetka Chamber of Commerce. (Mary Lou was even voted “Woman of the Year” by the Winnetka Chamber of Commerce in 2003.) These memories seem to come in modest, matter-of-fact snippets, when you least expect them to, like a novel unfolding. But just when you think you “know” Mary Lou, she will say something—or show you something, like this portfolio and “look book” from her days as a fashion model— that will astound you. “I never thought when I was a little kid that I’d be living in this beautiful community,” she says,

recounting her modest childhood growing up in an apartment building on Chicago’s north side. “My mother was an opera singer, singing in the chorus at Civic Opera House. She had a beautiful voice, but my grandfather never wanted her to be on stage,” explains Mary Lou, who spoke more Greek as a child than English. “Nice women didn’t flaunt themselves on stage. I never sang but as I got older, I guess I was determined to do something on stage, whether it was modeling or being a commentator.” Mary Lou’s mother, Irene Konstans, was born in Greece in 1910, but fled to America with her family in 1912. “My mother never wanted to go back to Greece,” she says, “All of the stories they used to tell at the dinner table about how horrible it was. They used to say that my grandmother came to Ellis Island with my mother hanging on her skirt, a baby in one arm, and one in her stomach.” The immigrant culture and work ethic stuck with her. Mary Lou’s first job was at the age of 14. “I was a check writer at a place called William A. Lewis, where models buy their clothes.” From there she quickly got into beauty contests, modeling, and fashion shows, things that went hand in hand in the 1950s. “Stores would select girls from various schools and post their photo in the junior teen department. They looked to the teens to find out the latest trends in fashion.” Her modeling resume became a romp through Chicago’s fashion world. She worked fashion shows at Wieboldts and Marshall Fields. Took to the runway at Chas. A. Stevens, Bonwit Teller, and Carson Pirie Scott. But Mary Lou wasn’t your typical, devilmay-care model. She married at 21, and had her daughter, Marina, at the height of her modeling career. Fortunatel y, her mother was never far away. “It was hard,” Mary Lou says. “You would have to go out and do a show, or a photo shoot, but at least it wasn’t a 9-5 job.” The full-time career wouldn’t be too far off though, as Sears tapped the beautiful young

Audrey Hepburn lookalike to head up their charm schools. Her job as fashion coordinator would be to teach teens and women’s group “charm and personal development classes” at three Chicago area Sears stores. Soon she would be taking models on the road as part of the Sears “ Tr u n k Full of

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Fashion” show. “It was a traveling musical fashion show,” Mary Lou explains. “We would do clothing changes on stage, behind a screen.” By the 1970s, Mary Lou was on the corporate ladder, eventually taking over public relations for Sears’ fashion divisons, bringing in such celebrity names as Stefanie Powers, Cheryl Tiegs, and tennis star Evonne Goolagong. Mary Lou Bilder was “that girl”—independent, determined, and not afraid of anything life would throw her way. At 27, she bought her first building, a six-flat near Lake Michigan in Chicago’s East Rogers Park neighborhood, where she raised her daughter after getting a divorce from her first husband. She owns that property to this day. “I was still in working mode, just retired, ready to take on another challenge. I almost felt like I was back at Sears when I joined the Winnetka Woman’s Club,” Mary Lou says, recalling her marriage to Norb and their move to the community. One of her first triumphs at the woman’s club was putting on a fashion show with a Greek theme. “I went to every store in Winnetka and pulled merchandise. We selected models, fit them, and delivered the show.” Mary Lou has been “delivering” on her volunteer commitments ever since. Even today, she’s not ready to stop supporting the organizations that welcomed her and her family all those years ago. “You never know how life is going to change,” she says. “There’s disappointment and there’s joy.” The day she buried her beloved husband in November 2017, she experienced joy of a different kind. It was bittersweet but well deserved. In her final years of caring for Norb, the Winnetka paramedics were a fixture in their home. She estimates they made 80 visits over the last eight years. “They’re my best friends,” she says. And true to that statement, and in a testament to what the couple means to the community, the Winnetka Fire Department paramedics drove a fire engine down to the funeral mass at Saint Andrew Greek Orthodox Church on the north side of Chicago. “To me, it’s a tribute to where we live,” Mary Lou adds. “Those are my heroes.” THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

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