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TOYS FOR TOTS Evanston realtor encourages North Shore clients to give generously EDITED BY SHERRY THOMAS THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
One of the many fantastic causes we can all support this holiday season is the Marine Corp Reserve’s long-standing Toys for Tots program, and an Evanston-based real estate company is doing its part to make the season brighter for deserving young people. From now through December 13, the Evanston office of Berkshire Hathaway Home Services/ Koenig Rubloff Realty Group will serve as a dropoff location for the program — collecting new, unwrapped toys at its 2110 Central Street office in north Evanston. Toys for Tots staff then distributes the toys to less fortunate children. The organization requests that the donations not be stuffed animals, battery-operated or realistic war-type toys. “The Evanston community has always been wonderfully supportive of our Toys for Tots toy drive for the holidays,” says Pat Vaughan, managing broker of the Evanston office. “We thank everyone who donates for their generosity and desire to help brighten the holidays for kids.” Toys will also be collected at Berkshire Hathaway Home Services/Koenig Rubloff Realty Group offices in Winnetka and Lake Forest. For the full list of participating drop off sites, please visit koenigrubloff.com/pages/toys-for-tots. For more information about Toys for Tots, please visit toysfortots.org.
THE GOOD NEWS BEAR Dislocated knee injury in 2017 failed to mar Miller’s good-guy disposition BY BILL MCLEAN THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Chicago Bears tight end Zach Miller and his wife, Kristen, share a chair in their living room in Lincolnshire. They are cuddling for a camera during a photo shoot, a straightfaced Zach looking down at a smiling Kristen. The camera clicks, clicks, clicks. The striking couple’s youngest child, 1-year-old Breckin, sits in a high chair about 10 feet away, pushing around — and occasionally eating — pieces of a snack strewn across the chair’s tray. The tot grabs a journalist’s pen and twirls it, plays with it. The journalist places a legal pad of paper on the tray. Breckin then puts pen to paper and scribbles … something. A letter? A blob? Maybe, just maybe, the Millers’ little guy has what it takes to become a sportswriter someday and maybe, just maybe, interview the Bears’ first-round draft pick in 2041. Zach and Kristen look away from the camera and right at Breckin, budding scribe. Both sport smiles now. Nearly a year ago, on October 29, 2017, Kristen — at home and watching the Chicago Bears-New Orleans Saints game on TV with Breckin, Bella (now 8) and Kash (7) — wore a look of worry. Worry morphed rather quickly into anguish as her husband, after having landed in an end zone with an apparent touchdown reception, stayed down. For too long. Players and medical personnel surrounded the 6-foot-5, 240-pounder. Zach’s left knee, in essence, had exploded, resulting in a dislocation and a torn popliteal artery. Had Miller been transported to the hospital with which the Saints had a contract, instead of one closer to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, he would have had to undergo an entirely different initial operation. “They would have had to amputate my left leg,” says Miller, who has had nine surgeries on the knee. “It’s been a long process, but I’m feeling better. I’m at Halas Hall (Bears headquarters, in Lake Forest) all the time,
Zach and Kristen Miller. PHOTOGRAPHY BY FRANK ISHMAN
going to meetings, working out, practicing with the team. The Bears organization has been incredibly supportive, unbelievable, since this injury. [Bears Chairman] George McCaskey and his wife, Barb, stayed in New Orleans to be with me for two days, flew to Chicago and then returned to New Orleans to spend more time with me.” Miller had to spend three of the hardest weeks of his life in “The Big Easy”. Kristen Miller had received periodic
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INDEX
NEWS 10 city escapes to a suburb
Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe houses mini city landmarks for holiday display.
LIFESTYLE & ARTS 14 social scene
Kick-off event for Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show provides a rush for fans of exquisite wares.
REAL ESTATE 16 open houses
Find out — complete with map — which houses you can walk through for possible purchase on the North Shore this weekend.
18 houses of the week
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SPORTS 24 golly, molly Lake Forest High School sophomore guard Molly Fisher impresses as first-year varsity basketball starter.
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MINI LANDMARKS, MAJOR ATTRACTIONS CBG (sky)lines replica city structures in its Wonderland Express display BY JEN SHEA THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
No need to visit the city this holiday season if you happen to live in or near Glencoe. The Chicago Botanic Garden (CBG) transported Chicago’s landmarks to the North Shore — via handcrafted miniature replicas of more than 80 city structures, from Willis Tower to Navy Pier to the Field Museum of Natural History — and deployed them in its Wonderland Express holiday display. The storybook model-train landscape stretches across CBG’s Nichols Hall through January 6; it opened on November 23. This year’s exhibition includes a new café, the Whistle Stop Café, open from December 21January 6. The replica landmarks were crafted using allnatural materials and set amid poinsettias, amaryllis, boxwoods and small fir trees. The outdoor garden celebrates national landmarks this year. The indoor version, meanwhile, features Chicago-landmark depictions by artisans from Applied Imagination, a Kentucky-based public garden design company. “Our outdoor model-railroad garden [in its 19th holiday season] was so popular we decided to bring it indoors,” says Jodi Zombolo, CBG’s associate vice president for visitor events and programs. Lead botanical artist Cindy Johnson says the replicas — a long-term project — were created with natural materials they had gathered. “Some of the simple small buildings might take only a couple of weeks from start to finish,” she adds. “But the more complex ones, the Chicago Tribune building with its flying buttresses or the Baha’i Temple with all of its intricacies, can take
the Lenhardt Library, the Waud collection of miniature storybook characters, hand-stitched in felt. Tickets are $13 for adults and $10 for children under 12 and seniors aged 62 and up. Children 2 years old and younger are admitted free of charge. Members get $2 off the ticket price, and tickets are half-price on Tuesdays. Special holiday events at Wonderland Express include Christmas and Hanukkah concerts on December 8 and 9 in Alsdorf Auditorium and holiday carols from 10 a.m.-noon on December 22. Kids can have breakfast with Santa at 8, 9, 10 or 11 a.m. on December 15 and 16. There will be holiday movies in Alsdorf Auditorium on December 23, 29 and 30. And an ice sculptor will appear in Runnells Courtyard from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on December 16 and January 5 and 6. Zombolo says Wonderland A scene from last year’s Wonderland Express holiday display at Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe. Express appeals to all ages. But it’s particularly fun, she says, “to several hundred hours.” or the best twisty branch to represent a building’s watch the young children delight in the trains and Johnson admits it was challenging to find the details,” she says. “It’s fun driving to Chicago and interact with the railroad engineers.” right plant pieces in the right quantities for some recognizing the actual building that we had made For more information please visit chicagobotanic. of the replicas. But it was well worth it, considering in miniature. “Sometimes I like our version better.” org/wonderland. The exhibition closes at 3 p.m. on the striking quality of the finished products. Wonderland Express also will feature a ginger- December 8 and December 24; it will be closed all day “There is great satisfaction in finding the perfect material, the perfect leaf, or perfectly shaped pod, bread village surrounded by train tracks, and, in on December 25.
THE GOOD NEWS BEAR Cont. from PG 1 was a freshman at the school: “Will you go to the homecoming dance with me?” Kristen, who grew up on a farm and rode a Quarter horse named Jersey, said yes to a boy whose height (5-foot-7) was about the same as hers. They got super serious a couple of years later, when a 6-foot-3 Zach—the reigning state champion quarterback in Nebraska—asked her to be his steady on Christmas Eve and gave her an entire outfit for Christmas the next day. Kristen, a cross country and distance runner in track, gave the future star football player at the University of Nebraska-Omaha a pair of polo shirts. Zach and Kristen were married for more than a year when the Jacksonville Jaguars selected him in the sixth round (180th pick overall) of the 2009 National Football League Draft. Miller had never entered an NFL stadium for a regular-season game, not even as a fan, until Jacksonville opened the ’09 campaign in Miami. A giddy, wide-eyed Miller, moments before the opening kickoff, approached Jaguars running back Maurice JonesDrew along the team’s sideline and blurted, “We’re in Miami, about to play the Dolphins! Can you believe it? How great is this?” Jones-Drew’s excitement level was a few notches below Miller’s. Jones-Drew, after all, had been in the league several years at the time. Kristen and Zach Miller. PHOTOGRAPHY BY Miller, the son of a truck driver (Buzz), played FRANK ISHMAN
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four seasons in Jacksonville before the Bears signed him in 2014. A foot injury shortened his ’14 and ’16 seasons. Football injures to both shoulders and a thumb, in addition to his right knee (in high school), had also sidelined him. “Zach has never backed down after an injury,” the whip-smart Kristen, 34, says of her 33-year-old husband. “He’s always been determined, committed to fully rehabbing the injury. That’s his approach; he knows no other. It’s the way he’s wired.” The photo shoot at the Miller home moves outside. Minutes later, a school bus stops, Bella pouring out of it and noticing her mother waving enthusiastically. Who needs a welcome mat with a human welcome like that? The Millers live at their home in Omaha from January until mid- to late July, around the time Bears reunite and gear up for the start of training camp in Bourbonnais. The Bears knew Miller’s devastating left knee injury would keep him from playing in 2018 but signed him to a one-year contract anyway, with a significant chunk of the salary guaranteed. Classy move. Miller — who spent 28 days at NorthShore University HealthSystem’s hospital in Evanston after returning from New Orleans last fall — still hopes to suit up for another NFL game someday. The easygoing, fun-loving, popular gridder oozes optimism, and each opportunity to hang out or work out with current Chicago Bears fuels him.
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A grateful fixture in street clothes along the Bears’ sideline on each Game Day, Miller, with an impossible-to-miss smile, celebrates with a Bear who had either just scored scored a touchdown or made a big play. Chicago sits atop the National Football Conference’s North division division with an 8-4 record. Some of Miller’s closest friends, still, are current or former NFL quarterbacks who threw passes to him, including former Bears signal callers Jay Cutler (“Cutty”, to Miller) and Brian Hoyer. In 2015 Miller caught an 87-yard touchdown pass from Cutler in the visiting Bears’ 37-13 defeat of the St. Louis Rams; it was the longest reception by a Bears tight end since 1999. Zach and Kristen have attended Bears Care charitable events for years, as well as fundraisers for organizations tied to a Summer Olympics all-time great (Michael Phelps Foundation) and a world-class golfer ( Jason Day’s Brighter Days Foundation). Zach, a saxophonist in high school, plays the piano and guitar. He attended the Luke Bryan concert at Wrigley Field with Kristen in early September. Twice at Wrigley Field he sang “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” during the seventh-inning stretch of a Cubs game. If it’s a Monday night, Zach and Kristen go out — usually to a restaurant in the city. It’s their “date night,” their favorite night of all. “I still love to date my husband,” Kristen says. THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
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Members of the Winnetka Community House Woman’s Board welcomed guests during a kick-off event for the three-day Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show on November 1. The Show featured speakers, including interior designer Julia Buckingham, The Salonniere Founder and Editor-in-chief Carla McDonald, interior designer Alessandra Branca and textile designer and author Michael Devine. More than 40 respected dealers from across the country showcased exquisite home furnishings, artwork, clothing and jewelry, with proceeds benefitting the Winnetka Community House.
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Hello, Molly! Sophomore guard Fisher skips summer basketball camps but sparks LFHS’s girls of winter BY BILL MCLEAN THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Molly Fisher spent weeks at a sleep-away camp in Minnesota and another chunk of time in Canada last summer. The Lake Forest High School soccer/ basketball player sailed, climbed rocks, shot arrows at an archery station, enjoyed visiting the Great White North. The sophomore-to-be had a ball. But the 5-foot-4 Scout did not dribble a ball — with her feet or with her hands — at either location.
"She kept asserting herself, kept being a good listener. She plays hard and focuses on what she brings to the team. I like her instincts, her shot, her passes. I couldn’t take her out of games."
FISHER ‘REEL’ HAPPY: Lake Forest High School sophomore guard Molly Fisher (No. 1) celebrates with teammates after a 61-50 defeat of host Stevenson last weekend. Fisher collected a key steal and hit two free throws in the fourth quarter. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
tourney champion) won the back-and-forth contest 46-41, with Fisher (season-high 12 points) hitting the go-ahead three-pointer and — with the Scouts up by two points — completing an old-fashioned “The first thing I said to my basketball coach three-point play (bucket and ensuing free throw) [Scouts varsity boss Kyle Wilhelm] at a preseason following her steal in the fourth quarter. meeting was, ‘I’m sorry,’ ” Fisher, a point guard on Fisher’s theft and successful journey to the other the freshman hoops team last year and a shooting end of the court essentially sealed the victory for guard these days, recalls. “I told him I was sorry I the visitors. She also finished with six rebounds, had not attended a basketball camp at any point three steals, one assist and zero turnovers. in the summer.” “That three-pointer gave me such a confidence The initial plan for Fisher this winter was for boost,” says Fisher, who’s averaging 4.8 points, 2.3 her to play JV basketball and maybe four minutes rebounds and 1.5 steals per game for the Scouts per varsity game. Fisher accepted it. (6-2 overall, 1-1 in the North Suburban Conference But Wilhelm had to alter the plan, radically, through December 3). “When I got home that after the first couple of games of the 2018-19 night, I didn’t know what had happened in the season. He deployed her as a starter in a formi- game, but I was happy. Starting, for this team? I dable lineup. did not expect it; I don't think anybody did. Fisher had earned the designation. “My teammates and coaches have been so sup“Molly kept doing things, very good things, on portive.” the court,” Wilhelm says. “In practices, in games. Fisher had a quiet night (two points) offenShe kept asserting herself, kept being a good lis- sively in Lake Forest’s 61-50 defeat of host Stetener. She plays hard and focuses on what she venson on November 30. She did have an impact brings to the team. I like her instincts, her shot, late. Again. Fisher hit the hardwood in Lincolnshire her passes. I couldn’t take her out of games. to secure a steal at the 1:34 mark of the fourth “We needed her in games.” quarter after Stevenson (6-1, 1-1 in the NSC) had The game of her season, thus far? The game pared the Scouts’ advantage to 57-50 on back-toagainst the host school at the Vernon Hills Cougar back treys by Patriots sophomore Nicole Ware. Classic on November 21. LFHS (the eventual LFHS netted the final four points of the game
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from the free-throw line, two by 6-1 senior forward Grace Tirzmalis (team highs of 23 points and 11 rebounds) and two by Fisher. “She’s very athletic,” Tirzmalis says of Fisher, a varsity attacking center-mid in soccer and the sister of LFHS senior twins Jake (the starting point guard on the Scouts’ boys varsity squad) and Danny (Miami of Ohio-bound golfer). “That must help her, having a basketball player like Jake around at home. Molly knew she would have to earn the starting spot, and she did. She does a lot of things well for us and appears comfortable on the court while doing them. “I was terrified my sophomore year on varsity.” Fisher had no qualms working on her basketball game with her taller, older brother Jake in their back yard. She also credits her father, Chris, for helping her develop her jump shot. “My dad likes to remind me, ‘Elbow in, keep your elbow in,’ ” says Fisher, whose mother, Lesley, played softball at the prep level. “Members of my family, they've been like my teammates and coaches — supportive and encouraging.” Off the court Fisher has a fun-loving personality, quick to smile, quick to elicit laughs from those within earshot. “I’m not 5-foot-4, even though the roster says I’m that tall,” she admits. “I’m 5-2 ¾. She shrugs.
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She smiles. “Height isn’t everything,” Fisher adds. “There was a time, though, when I thought height mattered in basketball.” Notable: Through eight games Lake Forest High School junior point guard Halle Douglass was averaging 15.3 points, 9.1 rebounds, 6.4 assists, 3.9 steals and 2.8 blocks per game. Busy, busy. Productive, productive. The 6-foot-2 Scout scored six second-quarter points in a 10-2 run in LFHS’s 61-50 defeat of host Stevenson on November 30, helping the visitors expand their lead to 24-14. Scouts 6-1 senior forward Ellie Pearson poured in 13 of her 15 points in the second half of the same game. She tallied four points in a nine-second span in the fourth frame, with the first two coming on a strong move in the paint. Pearson found an opening and drove decisively for a left-handed layup. Scouts 5-11 sophomore guard Finola Summerville came down with nine rebounds in the Scouts’ first North Suburban Conference victory. “That was, hands down, the best team game we’ve played,” LFHS girls basketball coach Kyle Wilhelm said. “We were making the extra pass, talking on defense, boxing out, getting loose balls. We were flat [in a 51-34 loss to Libertyville HS three days earlier]. Much better tonight, with much more energy, and we did a great job of staying composed.” THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
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S U N D AY B R E A K FA S T
SOLE MATES FOR LIFE BY BILL MCLEAN ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY BLITT
Lori Andre and a friend crashed a high school party decades ago. They were Niles North seniors in Skokie at the time. “We knew there would be jocks there,” Lori recalls at a table at Three Tarts Bakery and Café in Northfield. “The party was held weeks before homecoming.” Lori knew a boy named Brian, who played football in the fall, basketball in the winter, tennis in the spring and probably all three sports in the summer. But she didn’t know him very well. Brian was at the party. Of course he was. The number of varsity letters he had earned at NNHS nearly matched half the number of letters in the alphabet. “We sat down at a table in the kitchen,” Lori adds, “and talked. For hours. That’s when it started to get serious. “For me it was like a bolt of lightning.” They later heard thunderous music during the homecoming dance — the couple’s first date. Lori attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison, majoring in art history and Italian and studying for a semester in Florence. Brian ended up at law school. The high school sweethearts for a year got married in the early 1980s. Both were 23. Both are 60, residents of Lake View in Chicago and longtime business partners today. They own Lori’s Shoes, with locations in Lincoln Park (since 1981), Northfield (since 1985) and Highland Park (since 2001). The company also sells handbags, accessories and jewelry. “Brian,” Lori says, “is the most humble, selfless person I know. Never draws attention to himself. Never boastful. He still plays tennis. He’s an amazing, amazing athlete. “Great at bowling, too.” But Brian Andre, along with his resourceful and steadfast wife, is focused solely on striking and knocking down something other than pins these days. Two years ago he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s disease, a progressive neurodegenerative malady that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Someone in the United States is diagnosed with ALS every 90 minutes, and someone in the U.S. dies of ALS every 90 minutes. There is no known cure for ALS. “Initially we were shocked, in a daze for a while,” Lori says. “It was devastating news. Our
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lives stood still. We had to digest the news before doing anything else. We then got into survival mode, educating ourselves, reaching out to community caregivers of ALS patients, to clinicians and to researchers. “We traveled to conferences all over the country to learn all about the available options.” They formed a “JEM Squad” and strode at the ALS Walk for Life in Chicago on September 29, raising awareness and more than $35,000 for the Les Turner ALS Fo u n d a t i o n . About 7,000 participants walked two miles along the lakefront and entered Soldier Field. “JEM” stands for the first letter in the names of the Andres’ sons: Jared, 33, Eliot, 30, and Matt, 27. Matt is a formally trained shoe designer. Lori and Matt designed and manufactured a unique w o m e n’s sneaker with Lori’s business associate Billy Carrington of Consolidated S h o e Company. T h e slip-on kicks feature red details and the message “Strike O ut ALS” stitched vertically on the heel counter — the exact spot where bowling centers adorn the size of their shoe rentals. Dozens of pairs were sold before the ALS Walk for Life, with $50 from each purchase going to the Les Turner ALS Foundation.
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It was devastating news. Our lives stood still. We had to digest the news before doing anything else.
The shoes are still available online and at the three Lori’s Shoes locations. When you walk, after all, you strike down on the pavement. “It made sense to go with ‘Strike Out ALS’ for the name of the sneaker,” says Lori, the middle child (of three) of Henry, an artist and former owner of an advertising and graphic design company, and Evelyn, a former owner of two The Athlete’s Foot stores when she was in her 40s. Lori’s mother and father live in Northbrook. “My father is German, and my mother is Polish,” Lori says. “They arrived in this country with nothing. Becoming Americanized, learning a new language, adjusting to a different culture … very challenging, all of it. My father started working, full-time, at the age of 19. They both understood the value of hard work. “I have sort of an obsessive personality when it comes to business. I’m driven. I pay attention to detail. I’m also a risk taker and I’m forwardthinking. You can never let your guard down in retail and fashion. Never. You can never stop thinking of ways to improve the business. I love what I do. I look forward to going to work as soon as I wake up.” Lori Andre had ordered coffee, only coffee, at Three Tarts. She had driven from the city’s North Side to the North Shore — before her scheduled one-hour Pilates session, near her home — to sit with me and talk about her journey with Brian, who “is doing OK,” she says. She is hopeful and positive. Brian is hopeful and positive. Why be anything else? She mentions an all-day ALS symposium both would attend at Northwestern University in November. “We anticipate difficult times as the disease progresses,” Lori admits. “But we’re optimistic that experts in the field will discover improved treatments and, eventually, a cure. We’re out to make a difference in the ALS community and raise funds, and we’re committed to helping people understand ALS and how it affects patients and their families.” Please visit lesturnerals.org for more information about ALS and the Les Turner ALS Foundation. Please also visit lorisshoes.com and, to purchase a pair of women’s Strike Out ALS sneakers, lorisshoes. com/products/strike-out-ALS. THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
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