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Story of Survival: How one woman over came a rare condition. P26

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ORTHBROOK—A potential new look for downtown Northbrook got a boost from the Village Board of Trustees at its regularly scheduled meeting Dec. 8 at Village Hall. The board suggested a joint meeting with the Plan Commission as early as January to talk about overhauling the zoning requirements for the central business district. A review of changes to downtown zoning has been afoot for nearly a year with different board members taking varying positions, leaving the Plan Commission uncertain about how to proceed with its recommendations to the board, according to Thomas Poupard, the director of development and planning services. The lack of vision prompted Village President Sandra Frum to warn of more confusion bydevelopers like the Jacobs Companies of Deerfield. She said

she wants it to stop. “If we don’t give the Plan Commission some direction they will continue to be all over the place,” Frum said. “With things like Jacobs they are asking for something more specific from us.” Jacobs will have its fourth public hearing Jan. 19 on a proposed 72-unit townhome development on the east side of Shermer Road between Waukegan Road and Church Street. At the third public hearing Dec. 1, company representatives left wondering what to do next. “I heard a lot of divergent opinions, which makes it much more difficult to make the plan appealing,” Cal Bernstein, the Jacobs Companies lawyer, said at the Dec. 1 meeting. Poupard suggested changing the height requirements for the downtown C-3 commercial district to three stories and allowing buildings up to five stories if certain conditions are met. He said this is called a 3-1-1 plan. Continued on PG 10

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| SATURDAY DECEMBER 19 | SUNDAY DECEMBER 20 2015

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NEWS

Getting in the Holiday Spirit BY JOANNA BROWN

t was a dreary Saturday afternoon, raining at times and so foggy that drivers strained to find their cars in a parking lot. But the residents of Vi at the Glen were unfazed. They had hot coffee and Christmas music to lift their spirits, and a holiday service project to warm their hearts. Vi partnered with Youth Services of Glenview/Northbrook make Christmas special for 200 local families. Youth Services collected gifts for 200 families in need, and then called on the residents at Vi to help wrap the gifts – everything from nail polish kits and Lego bricks to the fluffy brown teddy bears. “I know we’re being helpful and really it gets me in the holiday spirit,” said resident Carol McGrew, who comes to the wrapping party every year. “If you don’t have a lot of gifts to wrap for your own family, this is

kind of fun.” The gifts will be delivered to Youth Service’s clients, those who receive counseling services from the Glenview-based not-forprofit agency to improve their social, problem-solving and decision-making skills. Special events coordinator Karen Paskiewicz collects wish lists from clients with proof of income and residency. Approximately 200 sponsors volunteer to adopt participating individuals and families. Coats, boots and underwear are considered essentials that Youth Services is sure to provide; everyone receives two or three gifts over and above the essentials. “Every child will receive five or six items, and the parents will receive any of the essentials they requested, plus a small gift or a Barbara Buckner (right) and Dorothy Pratt wrap gifts for Toys for Tots at Vi at The Glen. PHOTOGRAgift card,” said Paszkiewicz, who PHY BY JOEL LERNER. said her work to coordinate this After all the gifts have been Youth Services on Friday to annual event is a labor of love. derserved, and so some have “People are surprised to hear that things like toothbrushes and collected, the wrapping begins. retrieve as many gifts as will 70 percent of our clients are un- razors on their wish lists.” Vi sends its 24-passenger bus to safely fit, and the residents get

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to work Saturday morning to support additional wrapping happening at the Youth Services office. “Some of our residents will wrap all day,” said Andi Agazim, Vi’s lifestyle director. “Lots of our residents are retired, very accomplished professionals, and this is one way for them to continue being productive even if they aren’t as mobile as they used to be. Part of our philosophy for healthy living and whole body wellness at Vi is purposeful activity.” Resident Violet Dorner explained, “I enjoy wrapping, but I also like feeling that we’re giving back to the community and helping out.” Paszkiewicz, like Agazim, is proud of her agency’s long partnership with Vi. “The work done by the residents at Vi is so helpful. They help us so that we can help others, and it all comes full circle in our community.”

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Lane and Meadow Road. “That one will need some “You can build three stories by parking help,” Poupard said. He right,” Poupard said. “You can said changing parking restricbuild four with a special use tions is another part of the rezonpermit and five if the upper levels ing plan. are set back from the ground Though the two downtown floor. This will send a message to shopping centers on opposite the development community we sides of Church Street are C-2 are open to develop downtown.” zoning, according to Poupard, he There are two downtown said their owners could seek a parcels that have been ripe for change to C-3 to build taller development for a long time and buildings there. there have been no sniffs, accordThough Frum got strong ing to Poupard. He said one is a support when she expressed her former printing plant near wish for more clarity, not every Walters Avenue backing up to trustee agreed. Trustee Todd the railroad tracks. The other is a Heller had reservations. vacant half-acre parcel at Cherry “I’m not sure I want to see

even more to assist them in 2016.” Stacy, along with his colleagues, participated in Chicagoland Habitat for Humanity’s Building On! initiative, which engaged corporate sponsors and employee groups to build Habitat homes across the region. The residents were presented with their homes in special dedication ceremonies in November 2015. The KoenigRubloff Cares Foundation also partnered with The Sunshine Kids on their first series of events in Chicago this past September, providing a special day for children at Lurie’s Children’s Hospital and the following day enjoying a day at Wrigley Field with Sunshine Kids to watch the Cubs take on the Cincinnati Reds. “Organizations like Habitat for Humanity and The Sunshine Kids truly make a difference in this world, and they inspire our agents to give with generous hearts,” Stacy said. These grants would not be possible without their tremendous support,” he concluded. that,” Heller said. Trustee Michael Scolaro said he wanted to formalize zoning ideas a little more before the board sent potential code revisions back to the Plan Commission for further consideration. After Frum suggested a meeting of the board’s Planning & Zoning Committee, Trustee Jack Karagianis put out the idea of the two bodies meeting together. In other business, the board sent a proposal for a canine boarding and training facility at 1810 Skokie Blvd. to the Plan Commission with a positive recommendation.

LENVIEW — Starting Dec. 14, Village Hall will be located at the Glenview Municipal Center, 2500 East Lake Ave. Village Hall, which is currently at 1225 Waukegan Road, was closed to the public on Dec. 11 for the staff to move into the new offices. The village decided to move to the Glenview Municipal Center to be more efficient with other departments. “We’re going to be much more efficient in terms of our staff,” said Don Owen, deputy village manager. “Most people will see that we’re all stuffed up into our staff. It will be a better working environment for employees.” The Village Hall staff, which includes the Resolution Center, Community Development Department and Village Manager’s

Office, will now be on the same campus as the Glenview Police Department and the Public Works Department. Starting Dec. 14, the new address for the Public Works Department will be 2498 East Lake Avenue. The Village Hall will occupy about 19,000 square feet of space that once was designated for the police department, as well as a 16,000-square-foot addition. At the Waukegan Avenue location, the building could only accommodate a staff of 40 people. Right now, the Village Hall staff is at about 90 people. At one point, Village Hall had 15 trailers to provide enough office space for its staff, Owen said. He explained that having Village Hall at the Glenview Municipal Center will greatly improve customer service for residents. Unlike the building on Waukegan Road, the new building will offer services — such as water billing, business licenses and building permits — in the main lobby. Senior Services, the Medical Loan Closet and the Recycling Center will also be on the first floor. “Most people were frustrated with Village Hall,” Owen said, adding that most people found it hard to navigate the building. Glenview first started planning moving its Village Hall in the early 2000s, but when the recession hit the village had more important priorities, Owen said. When the police department’s

building was finished in 2006, the village later realized that the department needed less space than it was expecting. The village decided the most cost-efficient option would be to repurpose and expand the space. He added that moving to the Glenview Municipal Center will allow the Village Hall to be in a more central location. The site is in the geographical center of the village and is very easy for residents to get to, Owen said. The village owns both the Glenview Municipal Center and the Waukegan Road building. Owen said the village will put the old Village Hall building on the market in 2016 for office, retail or residential purposes. “This location (on Waukegan Avenue) is part of our downtown,” Owen said. “By us relocating, it will allow (Glenview) to continue in the development of the downtown.”past September, providing a special day for children at Lurie’s Children’s Hospital and the following day enjoying a day at Wrigley Field with Sunshine Kids to watch the Cubs take on the Cincinnati Reds. “Organizations like Habitat for Humanity and The Sunshine Kids truly make a difference in this world, and they inspire our agents to give with generous hearts,” Stacy said. These grants would not be possible without their tremendous support,” he concluded.

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hey say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but sometimes the title is all you need. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic(Featherproof, 2015) by Jessica Hopper tells you everything you need to know about what’s between the covers. Separated into eight sections, the collected writings span an 11 year period, from 2003 to 2014, in Hopper’s rock criticism career. Incorporating work from publications on the national level, including Spin and Village Voice, to regional outlets such as Chicago Reader, Nashville Scene, LA Weekly and Portland Mercury, and online sites such as BuzzFeed. com, Hopper’s voice has rung out loud and clear on the topic of rock music. Her subjects in the book range from internationally known artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga and Rickie Lee Jones, to more independently heralded acts including M.I.A., Abe Vigoda and Mecca Normal. I spoke with Wilmette resident Hopper about her book in fall 2015. Gregg Shapiro: Jessica, I first encountered you when you were working as a music publicist. Did it feel like a natural progression to you to become a music journalist after working on the other side of the fence? Jessica Hopper: I was a music writer first. I started writing about music, freelancing, when I was about 16. To me, being a publicist, which I started doing when I was 19 or 20, and I did that for about eight years full time, I was writing at the same time. Not that one financed the other or anything like that, but they were both coming from the same place of fandom and a profound interest in music and my own independence. I didn’t transition into writing full time until I obviously decided to stop being a publicist. I had to work up to that place, get my mettle up [laughs] to write fulltime. I was really glad that I did. I realized after the fact that I could have done it years earlier, that people were waiting for me to not have these various [laugh] conflicts of interest, because I was writing about some of the same music scenes that I had also been participant in because of industry. GS: In addition to writing about music, are you also musical?

JH: I’ve played in bands. But it’s not something I’ve done in the last 10 or so years. All of my energy really needed to be in writing. I had toured with bands and I had an idea of what it took [laughs] to make it by virtue of working in the music industry. I was never interested in that. I played music for about 10, 15 years, but it’s not something I do much of anymore. GS: What musical instruments did you play? JH: Bass, primarily. Guitar, drums poorly. GS: How do you feel about the quote attributed to Martin Mull – “writing about music is like dancing about architecture”? JH: If I believed that I wouldn’t be doing it for a living. GS: What was the first rock concert you ever attended before you became professionally involved in the music industry? JH: Gosh, I don’t even remember. I think I started going to concerts when I was in 8th grade. The first concert that I ever bought tickets to for myself was Sinead O’Connor’s US tour that she canceled when she got pregnant. I think it was 1989. I remember those were the first tickets I bought myself and they were five dollars. That gives you an idea of how long ago it was [laughs]. GS: In addition to the publication of your book The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, 2015 is also a time in which other women in rock, such as Grace Jones, Chrissie Hynde, Kim Gordon, Carrie Brownstein, Patti Smith, Carly Simon and Freda Love Smith, among others, published memoirs. Why do you think that such a confluence is taking place? JH: I think part of it is that the publishing industry sometimes needs to see a precedent. That people are really interested. Carrie and Kim’s books were in the works for quite some time. I don’t know about the other ones. I think between the success of (Patti Smith’s award-winning) Just Kids and also the success of Viv Albertine’s memoir, which became a mass-market success, not just a niche success, that people were definitely interested. Carly Simon had an earlier co-written biography whose author was discredited. I can see why she would want to do

another book. Grace Jones has some box sets coming and it’s timely in terms of her career. I think some of it is that people are looking around going, “What other stories are there to tell?” I think some it is a larger cultural dialogue. You have to wonder, for sure, because all these things are coming fast and furious in the last six months. I hope it’s also a shifting of the cultural tide. But I think it’s also part of an interest in conversation that maybe before the huge success of Just Kids people weren’t necessarily seeing that there was a dearth of books about women’s development as musical artists. GS: The Faith section is the centerpiece of The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic. Do you consider yourself to be a religious person, and if so, is that why you felt it necessary to include this section? JH: No, to both those things. I am a spiritual person. But I think more so that faith, in another way, is fandom. I think a lot of music has to deal with faith. I was playing both sides of that card. When I was talking about Michael Jackson, I wasn’t talking about church; I was talking about what it is to believe in something. I’m coming at it from all sides. For a lot of people, music, the same way that religion is for other people, is something they orient their lives around. When you believe in music, sometimes you believe in a lot of other things that sustain you in a similar way. GS: What else can you tell me about the process of deciding what would be included in the book? JH: First we culled a long list and cut that down and cut that down. Once we were getting down to pieces where we thought, “All of these have to be in the book,” you start looking at them for themes and organizing principles. That’s how that went. I knew what the overarching themes were in my work, but they become even more evident when you put it all together. GS: You have been a journalist for many years. Do you have any interest in writing fiction; do you think you might have novel in you? JH: No. My brain has never worked like that. I’ve never written fiction in my life. It doesn’t even occur to me. My

Jessica Hopper. PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID SAMPSON.

“For a lot of people, music, the same way that religion is for other people, is something they orient their lives around.” brain is critical. That’s how my brain assembles things. When I hear things, I’m listening critically, I’m watching critically always. GS: What can you tell me about your November 2015 departure from the music website Pitchfork? JH: I was doing work that I really liked and enjoyed there. I had an incredible amount of op-

portunities that came because of the work I was doing there, but also a lot of it came from what I was doing outside of Pitchfork, and it was difficult to balance those things. I had to say no to a lot of things. Then some offers came up that I couldn’t say no to that I had to jump at. That’s what hastened me leaving Pitchfork. I knew I was going to have to leave in order to work on the book I wanted to do next. It’s really difficult to try to balance a daily editorial schedule and run a magazine. I was doing two jobs within the magazine and working on the site. It didn’t leave a lot of space in my brain or time in my life for me to do the research I needed to do on the next book. I’m working on that and I’m going to be going to another job soon, but I can’t really talk about it yet. I’m really grateful for what I got to do in the year that I was at Pitchfork. It was an incredible opportunity. GS: You said that you can’t talk about the new job, but can you talk about the next book? JH: Yes, the next book is both a critical and cultural and musical history. [Laughs] that’s pretty vague but I’ll be able to talk

about it once I sell it. GS: You and your family have recently relocated to the North Shore. What do you think about the North Shore’s selection of live music venues? JH: I haven’t really had a chance to get out much since I’ve been here. Tonightis actually the first time I’m going to a concert in probably three or four months. I’m covering the Miley Cyrus concert for Rolling Stone. The tour kicks off tonighthere in Chicago. I haven’t even had a chance fully because we moved up here to the North Shore at the beginning of May and then I left for my book tour five days after we moved in and have barely stopped. Last night was the final night of my 2015 book tour. I’ve been on tour and frequently out of the country for the last couple of months. I haven’t really had a chance to dive in [laughs]. The next few weeks of floating between two jobs and being unemployed will be some of my first chance to go and get lunch in Evanston [laughs] and some of the basic stuff that would have happened in my first two weeks here if I hadn’t had a book coming out.

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Tomchek has been all over the continental United States and the world, refining his cuisine that is on full display at 210. With a focus on local farmers and ingredients, 210 serves regional American BBQ from smoked chicken, ribs, beef brisket (“done with post oak like they do in Texas,” added Tomcheck), and pulled pork Carolina-style. The official unveiling was the night before Thanksgiving, and 210 had around 500 people come through their doors to enjoy the food and relish the live music onstage. To that end, 210 is looking for local bands that have rehearsed and polished acts. On Fridays and Saturdays, they will be featuring rock or funk— “something that’s danceable.” While Sundays are reserved for blues, the rest of the week is open to a medley of jazz bands, folk, and bluegrass groups. “The easiest way to conceptualize what we’re doing is: supper club from five o’clock to nine o’clock, transitions into more nightlife, late night, live music lounge bar,” said Goldstein. But no matter what time it might be, Tomchek noted that this roast beet salad was a new favorite. 210 Restaurant is located at 210 Green Bay Rd in Highwood. Please call 847-433-0304 for reservations or go online to 210restaurant.com for more information.

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CHARACTER COUNTS Fun-loving, high-scoring Mikhaylov lifts GBN’s spirits — and hopes BY BILL MCLEAN, SPORTS@NORTHSHOREWEEKEND.COM

t was a late-arrival school day at Glenbrook North last week, first class beginning at 10 a.m. Nick Mikhaylov, a junior hockey player for the reigning state champion Spartans, entered a classroom. A wonderful aroma accompanied each of his steps. Mikhaylov was toting a … crepe, ready for consumption. He had decorated it with powdered sugar and a sweetened Nutella spread. Reading, writing and … tasting. Show and … inhale. “I didn’t get in trouble,” Mikhaylov, a 5-foot-10, 152pound forward, says, a sneaky smile making a brief appearance. “The teacher was lenient, probably because it was late-arrival day.” Call Mikhaylov “a character,” go ahead. His coaches call him that. So do his teammates. He embraces the description, wears it proudly, daily. Our wobbly, violent world needs more laughter, and the Spartans’ leader in points (35 goals and 25 assists, through Dec. 13) is more than willing to generate it, on and off the ice. His superstitions are super serious to him, hilarious and curious to others. A sampling: Mikhaylov must eat some kind of sushi and play with some kind of ball before every game. Mikhaylov must get dressed 14 minutes before the start of every hockey game, not one minute earlier, not one minute later. Mikhaylov and senior captain Kyle Fisher, another forward, engage in a unique handshake before every game. Mikhaylov has to score a buzzer-beater at the end of a game’s pregame session or risk having a terrible game. “Nick, he’s always joking around and constantly looking to have fun,” Fisher says. Nobody laughs at his hockey game. Blessed with quick hands and covetous eye-hand coordination, Mikhaylov paces a 33-12-2 club in goals (35) and power play goals (11) and averages a Patrick Kane-ish 1.29 points per game.

there, in front of the net, ready for a tip-in or a rebound. He’s got great vision, too. He made this one lengthy pass to me, this season, that I couldn’t believe. I still don’t how he saw me, how he got the puck got to me. It was a diagonal pass, a great assist. Beautiful.” Fisher is informed of the Mikhaylov story involving a crepe and a classroom. Fisher smiles and shakes his head. It does not surprise him in the least, his funloving buddy and hockey mate doing something that probably had never been attempted in a public school on U.S. soil. “Nick probably talked his way out of getting in trouble,” Fisher says. “He’d be a great salesman someday, wouldn’t he?” Notable: Glenbrook North won three games in two days at Culver Academy in Indiana last weekend, routing the hosts 7-2 on Dec. 11 and topping Gilmour 5-0 and Shattuck 3-2 on Dec. 12. Forward and alternate captain Joe Day had two goals and assisted on another in the win over Culver. Defenseman Matthew Rosen tallied once and slid a pair of assists. Forwards Jesse Lowell and Andrew Slovis each finished with a goal and an assist, and D Jack Elowe provided two assists. Brett Zera (18CENTER OF ATTENTION: GBN’s Nick Mikhaylov (middle) receives congratulations from teammates Joe Day (No. 11) and Jesse Lowell (No. 18) 4-2, 2.98 goals-against average, after scoring a goal against Loyola Gold. Mikhaylov has scored 35 goals in 47 games. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER six shutouts) and Tyler Laarveld His assist total (25) ranks fourth Nick is a fun kid.” with a big brother … a lot of my good advice, reminding me to (14-7, 2.22 GAA, two shutouts) The kid’s other time-consum- competitiveness came from com- dress well and to be polite. I have shared time in goal for the Sparamong teammates, behind defena curfew; it’s a strict one.” seman and alternate captain Jack ing sport, until the age of 12, was peting with my brother.” tans. … Day struck for two goal Elowe (26), defenseman Zach tennis. He slapped winners in Grandpa Vladimir, of GlenMikhaylov played in 72 games in the shutout of Gilmour, with Knudson (28) and forward Jesse sanctioned tennis tournaments view, was there, from the begin- for the state champions last Elowe and forward David Rubin Lowell (29). before becoming really good at ning, when a young Nick needed winter, scoring 14 goals and contributing two assists apiece. “He’s got, maybe, the best slapping shots past goaltenders. help tying his skates. Nick’s dishing 15 assists. Only one other Kyle Fisher, Zach Knudson and hands, the quickest hands, I’ve His father, Gary, has a tennis grandpa attends every Glenbrook sophomore on the 2014-15 Jason Ward scored GBN’s other ever seen,” Spartans coach Evan background. His 24-year-old North game and continues to varsity team, Knudson (three goals. … Laarveld made 16 saves, Poulakidas says. “Nick is spec- brother, Phil, played varsity tennis make sure Nick’s hockey boots are goals, 25 assists, in 73 games), and Elowe had two more assists tacular in close, scores often [from at Glenbrook North for three tied securely, ready for game skated significant minutes. Time in the win over Shattuck. Day, tight spaces]. Very skilled, too. His seasons. The three like to smack action, for producing the soothing atop a rink, any rink, is Mikhay- Ward and junior forward Nick skating has improved, and if it ping-pong shots in the basement kish-kish sound across a rink. lov’s favorite time, a chance to do Mikhaylov notched the goals in improves some more, he’d be even at home, welts emerging as their “My grandpa, along with my what he loves with his friends. the 3-2 decision. … GBN got a more dynamic of a player than he bulbous badges of courage after parents (Gary and Marina), has His favorite spot on the ice is goal and an assist from Mikhayis now. an intense game or two. been an inspiration, always sup- anywhere near a goal-crease lov in a 5-4 shootout loss to “He does,” the coach adds, “ask “There were times,” Nick porting me, always making time doorstep, the puck either on his visiting Loyola Gold on Dec. 9. a lot of questions, drives me nuts. recalls, “when I’d wrestle with my for me,” Nick says. “He has never stick or hissing toward an oppos- Day, Brian Baruck and Charlie He probably does the same thing brother at home, big brother- missed a game. My parents have ing goaltender. Alcorn also scored for GBN, to his teachers. Fun kid, though. little brother stuff. Growing up been great. My mom gives me “Nick,” Fisher says, “likes to be which led 3-1 after one period.

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NON-STOP SARAH Tireless Titan McDonagh hustles her way into the hearts of coaches, teammates BY BILL MCLEAN, SPORTS@NORTHSHOREWEEKEND.COM

arah McDonagh never attended her older siblings’ basketball games just to watch them play. There was always plenty of room, off to the side, to run around and dribble and work on her game. Molly McDonagh or Colleen McDonagh or Sean McDonagh would hustle in uniforms, each a part of a five-on-five battle. Sarah McDonagh, one-vs.nobody, would bounce-bouncebounce a basketball in a gymnasium, a young girl producing background music that sounded like the music coming from the main stage. Grandpa Jim, invariably, was a spectator, ready to cheer for a grandchild or shout instructions to Sarah McDonagh. “I remember hearing, ‘Use your left hand!’” Sarah, now 5-foot-10 senior forward for Glenbrook South’s girls basketball team, says. “My grandpa taught me a lot about basketball. He had a big impact. He also liked to say, ‘Ball on the ground, you dive for it.’ ” It is Dec. 12, and Glenbrook South is playing visiting Prospect in a girls basketball matinee. It is in the third quarter, late, South’s Titans up 38-22. A loose ball heads toward midcourt. McDonagh and several others chase after it. McDonagh, winning the chase, dives and lands, right-hip first, on the ball. She skids for a few feet. She secures the ball. A Knight fouls McDonagh. Grandpa Jim would have been the proudest spectator in the gymnasium. Grandpa Jim died when Sarah was a sophomore and a first-year varsity basketball player and varsity lacrosse player. “Sarah plays so hard, doesn’t she?” Glenbrook South girls basketball coach Steve Weissenstein says of his co-captain. “She’s the most enthusiastic kid, bubbly, and she uses that enthusiasm to do all the little things in a basketball game. One game, I remember she was getting kind of upset, maybe because she hadn’t scored. But she was having a fantastic game, doing everything else so well, like rebounding, passing, playing great defense, hustling.” McDonagh scored seven points in Glenbrook South’s 50-39 defeat of Prospect last

sophomore forward-guard who spent the 2013-14 season at West Point School on the grounds of the United States Military Academy. The 6-footer grew up in Glenview and played varsity basketball for four years at Glenbrook South, earning all-state honors (special mention) after her senior season (2012-13). Her name: Molly McDonagh (7.3 points per game, 6.0 rebounds per game, for a 5-2 team this winter). Colleen McDonagh played basketball for a season at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. Sean McDonagh was a freshman tight end for DePauw’s football team in the 2015 season. “Molly,” Sarah McDonagh says, “is a workhorse player at Miami, like I am for my team. If you were to attend a game, you’d hear Molly’s voice, everybody would. She likes to talk out there when her team is playing defense.” The matriarch of the McDonagh household is Mary Lou, a former basketball player at DePaul University. The father of the standout McDonagh athletes is Kevin, another graduate of DePaul. Neither DePaul nor DePauw is in Sarah’s next-level plans. She verbally committed to play lacrosse at San Diego State University in December of her junior year. She made it official last month, signing a national letter of intent. Her lacrosse story is a good one, starring Titans lacrosse coach Annie Lesch. McDonagh wanted to go out for a spring sport in her freshman year. She made an appearance on the first day of lacrosse tryouts. The experience did not thrill her. She had no intention of making an appearance on Glenbrook South’s Sarah McDonagh (No. 25) drives with the ball against New Trier’s Jeannie Boehm. the second day of tryouts, until PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE PFOERTNER Lesch went to work. weekend, four days after scoring at the 1:15 mark of the fourth forward, says. “Scrappy. She’s “She hunted me down [at four in a 55-34 loss at New Trier. quarter, on a missed free throw scrappy, offensively and defen- school],” McDonagh recalls. “She Modest stat, modest stat. Points, from a teammate. GBS led only sively. She’s loud on the court, even called me at home.” Lesch saw something in Mcthough, do not define McDonagh, 44-39 at the time. Earlier in the likes to yell, communicates well. the hoopster. She, along with quarter, after rolling an ankle We never take her yelling person- Donagh. She saw what Weissome help from her teammates, while getting fouled, she popped ally because whenever she yells senstein and Titans hoopsters see limited New Trier senior forward- up, shook off the pain and hit two during a game, it’s for a good at every basketball practice, in center Jeannie Boehm, a 6-3 free throws to end a Titans five- reason. every basketball game: an athHarvard recruit and one of Illi- minute scoring drought. “I knew, right away, when I first letic, competitive, driven teen. A nois’ top post players, to a modest “Sarah motivates everybody, met her [in the third grade], we’d winner. McDonagh returned for the rest of the tryouts and later two points through three quarters especially before games, and she be friends. She’s outgoing.” The most vocal player during honed her stick skills as a member on Dec. 8. McDonagh came down hustles, always hustles,” Titans with nine rebounds in the Pros- senior co-captain and Valparaiso- Miami (Ohio) University of Illinois Elite, a girls lacrosse pect game, the biggest one coming bound Caitlin Morrison, a 6-2 women’s basketball games is a club.

A middie, she played for Glenbrook South’s varsity in 2014, her sophomore season, when the team finished in fourth place at the state tournament. The Titans took fourth again last spring. McDonagh made the 2015 allstate team (honorable mention). Cousins of McDonagh live in San Diego. She emailed the SDSU Aztecs women’s lacrosse coach, Kylee White, before a cousins/campus visit. McDonagh and other prospective lacrosse recruits played in a five-on-five lacrosse tournament in front of eyes belonging to SDSU coaches. They liked what they saw from one of Grandpa Jim’s mentees. They offered her a scholarship. The Aztecs’ women’s lacrosse program turns five in 2016. “Sarah plays lacrosse like she plays basketball — relentlessly,” Weissenstein says. “And she’s a part of a great family, the nicest family, oh my gosh. Her parents … they get, absolutely get, what high school sports are all about.” Notable: Glenbrook South improved to 9-2 when it downed visiting Prospect 50-39 on Dec. 12. Titans senior forward Caitlin Morrison paced her team in points (16, including a pair of three-pointers) and rebounds (11). The victors scored the game’s first 10 points (in two minutes, 16 seconds) and led 24-13 after one quarter and 34-17 at the half. Titans junior guard Carie Weinman (two treys) tallied 14 points and had a team-high five steals. Junior guard Callie Pekosh scored nine points, six in the second half. Titans sophomore guard Lizzy Shaw executed the slickest move of the day in the first quarter, whipping a behindthe-back dribble and driving through Knights en route to a layup. The bucket gave the host school a 17-8 lead. … Shaw poured in a team-high 10 points and collected four steals in South’s 55-34 loss to host New Trier on Dec. 8. Weinman finished with eight points, six rebounds and six steals, Morrison with eight points, six rebounds and three steals. … Glenbrook South, which lost to Maine South on Dec. 11, is 1-2 in the Central Suburban League South.

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EXCELLENCE ON DISPLAY

Loyola’s Clifford — poised and highly productive — earns Player of the Year honors BY BILL MCLEAN, SPORTS@NORTHSHOREWEEKEND.COM

ric Eshoo was stoked, tingling from head to toe in a locker room on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb last month. The Loyola Academy senior tight end-wideout, a Northwestern University recruit, wanted to move, run, shout, do something, anything, before the Class 8A football title game against Marist. Niagara Falls. Eshoo’s adrenaline on Nov. 28, an hour before kickoff. Forces of nature, all of the above, from the border between Canada and the United States to the adrenal glands of a 6-foot-5, 225-pound Rambler. “I was jacked up, anxious,” Eshoo recalls. “A lot of us were. I remember looking at our quarterback [senior Emmett Clifford], right there in the locker room, and noticing his composure, his calm demeanor, his … confidence. His confidence was quiet, but it also was obvious. A lot of us noticed it. It settled me down, and I’m sure it settled down many of my teammates.” Clifford — calm, cool and expected to direct Loyola Academy to a 14th straight victory in LA’s 14th game of the season — did just that, passing for 195 yards and a touchdown and rushing for 23 yards and a TD in a 41-0 rout. Another Saturday, another victory. The state championship was LA’s second in program history, the first occurring in 1993. Clifford finished the season with 33 TDs, six interceptions and 2,552 passing yards. He completed 191 of 271 passes, a dependable 70 percent. “We completed 70 percent of the passes,” Clifford, a Glenview resident and we-before-me athlete, says. “All I had to do was get the ball to one of our playmakers. We had playmakers, a lot of them.” Loyola Academy’s football team had only one Emmett Clifford, The North Shore Weekend Player of the Year in 2015. The Our Lady of Perpetual Help

24-22 decision — would limit LA to fewer than 25 points in the next 13 weeks. Clifford earned the Lawless Award for Most Outstanding Player in the Chicago Catholic League’s Blue Division. The 6-foot, 188-pounder is looking at Ivy League schools, at Patriot League schools. High on his list is College of the Holy Cross, in Worchester, Massachusetts, current football home of LA graduates and HC juniors Peter Pujals (quarterback), Luke Ford (defensive back) and James Murray (offensive lineman). The thought of possibly being a Pujals understudy for a college season thrills Clifford. Pujals quarterbacked the Ramblers to a Class 8A state semifinal game in 2012. Pujals was a senior at Loyola Academy when Clifford was a freshman. “Peter was a gifted quarterback at Loyola,” Clifford recalls. “He ran the offense well.” Clifford, state champion quarterback, watched a tape of the 2015 Class 8A state title game at a teammate’s house hours after the state title game. Twice. He relished the viewing session, NO. 2 IN NO. 1: Loyola Academy quarterback Emmett Clifford runs the ball during his team’s win over Palatine in the Class 8A state especially when Marist had the semifinals. He finished with 32 touchdown passes for the state champion Ramblers. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JON DURR. ball. Clifford and his starting brethren on offense never got to graduate has the disposition any way. Emmett was very good at the seventh game of the season. me sit up there. He was great. see their defense perform live in coach would want behind a fine managing our ‘company’, our LA would play seven more He’d give me a play script before DeKalb. Too busy and too line of scrimmage and in front team, doing his job, doing what games, ending its season with a games and ask me to check the focused on a Huskie Field sideof clock-eating and talented we needed him to do. He got the 20-17 defeat of Curie in the Prep plays I liked and cross off the line, reviewing footage of series running backs. On the Christmas ball to our talented players. We Bowl at Soldier Field. plays I didn’t like. If I didn’t like on iPads, prepping for the next wish list of wideouts and tight had so many talented players this In each of the final seven a play, I’d explain why I didn’t series. Loyola held Marist to 174 ends everywhere: an Emmett year, Emmett being one of them, games, LA offensive coordinator/ like it. There was one play I total yards, minus-two rushing, Clifford-type signal caller, ac- that I never sensed, nobody ever QB coach Tyler Vradenburg and thought tended to get a little in its sixth shutout of the season. curate, with a resting heart rate, sensed, one had to be a star in running backs coach Ryan Gal- messy, so I told him. He had the “Our defense,” Clifford says, seemingly, in the single digits. order for us to win. And all of lagher made room for another final say on the plays we’d run, “played really well. I enjoyed that, “His unflappable demeanor, our talented players are good set of eyes in the coaches’ box but it was nice getting the op- seeing our guys shut them down. the way he was under control characters, humble and nice and during games. Emmett Clifford’s portunity to express my views.” Our mindset [with a 27-0 lead throughout the season and respectful.” eyes. He watched. He got a Clifford entered his senior at the half ] was to score two The development of Clifford, coach’s perspective. Coaches got year armed and steady, a former more times, let our defense do carried himself, was remarkable,” “assistant coach” (salary: $0) all what it does and get a running Loyola Academy football coach the calm, smart, productive quar- a Clifford perspective. “I paid attention, and I real- geared up to use his right wing, clock. Watching the tape of the John Holecek says of Clifford, terback, started after a painful one of four team captains in ’15. moment in the middle of his ized what coaches like to see both legs and both sides of his game, watching our defense “You want your quarterback to junior season. A backup at the from an offense, what coaches brain. LA opened the season with dominate, I got excited. I was own those traits. Emmett start of the 2014 season, the expect. I got such a better under- a 35-0 defeat of visiting Mar- shaking. I wasn’t able to get to managed games so well. You hear right-hander had won the start- standing of the offense, of our quette University High School sleep until 3 a.m.” that word, ‘manage’, and too ing job when he suffered a broken game plans. I got to see how of Milwaukee on Aug. 29. Only The cucumber in pads, the many think, That’s average or not left collarbone in a game at cornerbacks reacted to our plays. Palatine — in a snowy Class 8A unflappable one on football very good. I don’t look at it that DePaul Prep in Chicago. It was It was [Vradenburg’s] idea to let state semifinal, on Nov. 21, a fields, has a flappable side.

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Football Phenoms

The North Shore Weekend selects 2015 All-Area Gridiron Team Offensive Player of the Year Emmett Clifford (Loyola, Quarterback)

OL: Dimitrije Milutinovic (Glenbrook North, Sr.) OL: Thomas Schaffer (Lake Forest Academy, Sr.)

Defensive Player of the Year Ben LeRoy (Loyola, Defensive Lineman)

First Team Defense DB: Matthew Clifford (Lake Forest, Sr.) DB: Bobby Desherow (Loyola, Sr.) DB: Mitch Schermerhorn (Glenbrook North, Sr.) DB: Cristian Volpentesta (Highland Park, Sr.) LB: Colin Casas (New Trier, Sr.) LB: Cross Daffada (Loyola, Sr.) LB: Daniel Joseph (Lake Forest Academy, Sr.) LB: Anthony Romano (Loyola, Jr.) DL: Jake Cirame (Lake Forest Academy, Jr.) DL: Jack Hough (Loyola, Sr.) DL: Ben LeRoy (Loyola, Sr.)

Special Teams Player of the Year Nick Endre (New Trier, K-P) Newcomer of the Year Max Rosenthal (New Trier, RB/LB) Rookie of the Year John Deering (Lake Forest, Linebacker)

The Gold List First Team Offense QB: Emmett Clifford (Loyola, Sr.) RB: John Clark (Glenbrook North, Sr.) RB: Dara Laja (Loyola, Sr.) WR: Eric Eshoo (Loyola, Sr.) WR: Quinn Julian (Lake Forest, Sr.) WR: Thomas Smart (Loyola, Sr.) OL: Sam Badovinac (Loyola, Sr.) OL: Gabe Guzman (Highland Park, Sr.) OL: Joe Lewis (New Trier, Sr.)

Second Team Offense QB: Danny Carollo (Lake Forest, Sr.) RB: Ryan Janczak (Glenbrook South, Sr.) RB: D.J. Penick Jr. (Highland Park, Jr.) WR: Jack Healy (Glenbrook South, Sr.) WR: Jonah Isaac (Loyola, Sr.) WR: Jake Marwede (Loyola, Jr.) OL: Yanni Ballis (Lake Forest, Sr.) OL: Daniel Kurkowski (Loyola, Sr.) OL: Joe Levy (Glenbrook North, Sr.) OL: Mario Ramirez (Glenbrook South, Sr.) OL: Jacob Zatz (Glenbrook North, Sr.)

Second Team Defense DB: Lucas Bartzis (New Trier, Sr.) DB: Tyler Canning (Glenbrook South, Sr.) DB: Francis Fay (New Trier, Jr.) DB: Joey Zitella (Loyola, Sr.) LB: John Deering (Lake Forest, So.) LB: Max Rosenthal (New Trier, Jr.) LB: Graham Repp (Loyola, Jr.) LB: Charlie Stimson (New Trier, Sr.) DL: David Barrette (Highland Park, Jr.) DL: Devin Murphy (New Trier, Sr.) DL: Matt Pawlowski (Glenbrook North, Jr.) Honorable Mention Glenbrook North: Kevin Burnside ( Jr., QB), Alex Bubaris ( Jr., DB), Nick Karis (Sr., WR), Gerry Luc ( Jr., LB) Glenbrook South: Dan Jenkins (Sr., QB), Amara Kabba (Sr., DL),Trevor Lohre (Sr., DL), Ryan McFaul (Sr., LB), Daniel Moses (Sr., OL), Calvin Sailer (Sr., RB) Highland Park: Jeremy Allen (Jr., DB), Adam Danzig (Sr., OL), Lucas Marks (Sr., LB), Jordan Mendiola (Sr., DE), Tucker Thompson (Sr., OL) Lake Forest: Brian Doherty (Sr., WR), Chris Meng (Sr., RB), Jaxon Mills (Sr., DL), Francis Nicholson (Sr., LB), Jack Skinner (Sr., WR), Cal Wonham ( Jr., LB) Loyola: Jack Badovinac ( Jr., OL), Frank Doherty

Loyola Academy’s Ben LeRoy: Defensive Player of the Year

(Sr., LB), Thomas Nute (Sr., OL), Ian Swenson ( Jr., DB), Patrick Tata (Sr., K-P), Sam Taylor (Sr., DB) New Trier: Marshall Budin (Sr., OL), Clay Czyzynski ( Jr., QB), Patrick Graham (Sr., OL), Cristian Miller (Sr., DB), Jake Lowell ( Jr., DL), Eric Nicholas ( Jr., WR)

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A STORY OF SURVIVAL spun, and spun, and spun. Her was icki Milin thinks Popeye h e a r t had a brain injury. The pounding. All telltale signs are all there. she could feel The cartoon sailor’s iconic squint was her head, and fixed scowl. The way he which ached. talked. (“I yam what I yam.”) The When the room way he ate his leafy greens with eventually stopped only one side of his mouth. spinning, she noticed Could the lumbering Bluto she had double have knocked him one too many vision. She times in the head? Or was it in- thought to ternal—say, a brain bleed—out herself, I’m on the high seas without the care dying. Her of a certified specialist at hand? s e c o n d If so it could not have been any t h o u g h t worse than Milin’s own experi- followed: I ence. Milin, who is no stranger can’t die, to brain bleeds, never thought she she told would ever need brain surgery h e r s e l f , until she suddenly could not stop because I told the world from crashing down my dad I’d take around her. Or what she refers to care of him. And then it as her “tsunami moment.” Milin is seated across the table went right back to from me at Country Kitchen in spinning. Highland Park. The former real Afterwards, she estate agent is enjoying an iced realized she could tea and egg white veggie omelet. only see out of one Milin is an avid Uber rider. (She eye. She had never has trouble driving.) Today she been to a neurolois wearing a piece of soft tape over gist before. But when her left eye—or her “bad eye,” as she eventually went, she she refers to it. She has gotten was misdiagnosed. “They facial reconstruction surgery to should’ve known right away what be able to use more of the left it was,” she tells me. When she side, but its unclear if she will ever went to another doctor for a be able to use most of it again. second opinion, he told her: “You And yet she didn’t have a need to see a neural ophthalstroke. It was something much mologist, stat.” more malicious. Milin was 51 When she was given a magwhen she woke up to find her netic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, the nurses had to drug her whole bedroom spinning. She reached for something to because she could no longer lay hold on to, grabbing the bottom flat, due to the intensity of the of her bed to steady herself in this vertigo. Since she was a young whirlwind. But still the room girl she had always had some BY SIMON MURRAY

“Because I was given the gift of life, I decided that my mission now is to help educate people.” –Nicki Milin

alization that even small hemorrhagic events can cause significant neurological deficits. Nicki Milin | Illustration by Barry Blitt Estimated to occur in approximately one out of every 500-600 degree of vertigo, dizzy spells. She brainstem. “The motherboard,” people, or 0.2% of the general steered clear of carousels. But it explains Milin. population, the root cause is still wasn’t until this moment, practiRaspberry-shaped abnormal not yet understood. cally her entire adult life, when blood vessels in the brain or spine, That was the information she found out what, exactly, it was brainstem cavernous angiomas Milin was given. It was imperathat she suffered from. There it have only recently received a great tive that she received brain was, right there, clear as day: she deal of attention due to enhanced surgery, though she had to wait had a cavernous angioma on her imaging techniques and the re- five years (!) for surgeons at Stan-

ford University’s School of Medicine Brain Tumor Center to operate. She had seen the MRI results herself. Her doctor “showed me (but I couldn’t see) that it had bled many times over the years and it was a miracle I had survived,” said Milin. “Most people when they have one they drop dead and they die.” It is believed that Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner died from a similar cause. The same for composer George Gershwin. Both were not yet 40 years old. Milin, miraculously, had survived. She attended the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, one of the best in the world, where she had to learn to walk again. They tested her brain. She relearned the basic skills necessary to function. “Because I was given the gift of life, I decided that my mission now is to help educate people,” explained Milin. To that end she has started a blog, “Got Brain Bleed?” Where she uses her sense of humor and amazing will to instill positivity in others. “Now I know I’m a fighter and I’m strong, and sometimes when you’re at the end of your rope,” writes Milin in one of her blog posts, “you just have to tie a knot and hold on.” She has taken extensive notes about her experience, which she hopes to one day turn into a book. When she goes to the doctor’s office, she signs in as Mrs. Magoo. Because she has an indomitable will, she won’t let this beat her down—too much. But she credits her family and her good nature for seeing it through. Says Milin, “If I didn’t have a sense of humor, I couldn’t survive.”

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