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Bloody Good Time CHECK OUT HIGHWOOD’S BLOODY MARY FEST THIS WEEKEND. Who makes the best Bloody Mary in the Midwest? That verdict will be determined right here in Highwood this weekend—and you can be a part of it. Celebrate Highwood presents its 10th annual Bloody Mary Fest on Sunday, July 28 at Everts Park in downtown Highwood. This year’s contest will feature the “BEST OF THE BEST,” as contestants have been pre-judged by Chicago’s own Bloody Mary expert Jason Pirock from the Eat, Drink and Bloody Mary blog, and a team of Bloody Mary aficionados. The top 15 mixologists from competing bars and restaurants have been chosen, and will have the opportunity to share their one-of-a-kind recipes with the public while attempting to create the ultimate Bloody Mary. Participants include 28 Mile Vodka Company, 210Live, Elsie Mae’s Canning & Pies of Kenosha, Wisconsin, Greenwood, La Casa de Isaac, Lucky Fish/The Mean Wiener, Maevery Public House, Santi’s Gardens, Scotty’s on Sheridan, The Humble Pub, The Toad Stool Pub, Valor & Culinary Gangster Food Truck, Washington Gardens, and The Wooden Nickel. Contestants are evaluated on taste, presentation, spice, color, texture, and garnish. The competition includes a People’s Choice Award as well as formal judging on the Best Continued on PG 10
RUNNING WITH RACHELL FROM PARENTING TO BUSINESS, FLEXIBILITY IS A HALLMARK FOR ONE HIGHLAND PARK ENTREPRENEUR. BY MONICA KASS ROGERS THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Rachell Runion greets me at her office in business casual dress and black pumps with a chubby baby on her hip. Nine months old, with huge brown eyes, a sparkly lavender dress, and perfectly pink bow lips, Maggie is a smiley, wiggly little girl. She’s eager to crawl back to the playroom where her sister Emma and brother AJ are busy building Legos, drawing pictures, and reading stories with Runion’s wife. It’s already been a busy morning. As AJ finishes up summer camp, Emma accompanies Runion around town while Cyd Runion cares for the baby—all while managing the renovations of the 1920s Highland Park fixer-upper the family moved into this year. Is it always like this? “Yes, but there are always a lot of moving parts to our days,” says Rachell, laughing: “Our friends joke and say there should be a reality show called, ‘Running with Rachell’.” If she moves quickly, it’s because she has a lot of ground to cover. In addition to parenting three children, she’s also working in two cities—Atlanta and now Chicago’s North Shore—as founder, managing broker, and president of TruHaven Homes, a luxury residential property management firm. But efficient by nature, she takes it all in stride. The decision to relocate to the North Shore, where Runion lived during the latter part of her adolescence and early adulthood, was made to be closer to family and to give the children a better education. The move has also provided the opportunity for Rachell to expand her entrepreneurial approach in property management to the North Shore. The balancing act between running TruHaven and parenting with Cyd is one Rachell navigates with pragmatic flexibility. “Our approach to things is unconventional,” she laughs. “I mean, my daughter at 6 years old can show a house better than I can. Some Continued on PG 10
Rachell Runion PHOTOGRAPHY BY MONICA KASS ROGERS
kids play soccer on Saturdays. My kids are driving properties with me, because that’s what my family does.” Rachell says she always wanted to raise a family with Cyd. Because Rachell’s mother was adopted, and Rachell herself was taken in by her grandparents later in childhood, she hoped to adopt. But Rachell was also familiar with the plight of children who were
moved back and forth from one foster home to another, and wanted to do what she could to help those in foster care even before pursuing adoption. “So with all of that in mind, Cyd and I signed up with the Fulton County (Georgia) Division of Family and Children’s Services (DFACS) to become foster parents,” she says. Living in a gothic, Victorian farmhouse
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