At Paris Olympics, Park Ridge fencing champ hopes to help Team USA win glory
Rolling down the Seine River in the 2024 Olympics opening ceremonies and collecting swag made for a remarkable day, but didn't sway the focus of Park Ridge’s Filip Dolegiewicz from...
![Time stands still in so many ways for the venerable business celebrating its 75th anniversary on the northwest corner of Lincoln and Devon avenues in Lincolnwood, abutting the Chicago city line. If you didn’t look closely, the layout of Lincolnwood Novelty Golf and its adjacent hot dog stand Bunny Hutch – by which the miniature golf courses are also known – could pass for 1954 or 1974 or 1994. Concessions to modernity of course are found, be it Summer Olympics-themed structures on the golf course or a wider menu than just wieners (no ketchup, please!) at Bunny Hutch compared to mid-20th century. But […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ppn-l-lwr-novelty-golf-liza-pappas-2024_b9aca8.jpg?w=119 "Time stands still in so many ways for the venerable business celebrating its 75th anniversary on the northwest corner of Lincoln and Devon avenues in Lincolnwood, abutting the Chicago city line. If you didn’t look closely, the layout of Lincolnwood Novelty Golf and its adjacent hot dog stand Bunny Hutch – by which the miniature golf courses are also known – could pass for 1954 or 1974 or 1994. Concessions to modernity of course are found, be it Summer Olympics-themed structures on the golf course or a wider menu than just wieners (no ketchup, please!) at Bunny Hutch compared to mid-20th century. But […]")
![Usually the well-worn path is one-way, from France to the United States, for high culture and haute cuisine alighting here via the Statue of Liberty, art galleries, fancy restaurants and bakeries. But when the course was reversed, in this instance from Park Ridge to the streets of Paris, there was cause for celebration on Saturday, June 15, via French champagne, charcuterie trays and macarons at the local Kalo Foundation for the most all-American of symbols – a bust of Abraham Lincoln. Park Ridge art patrons gathered at a white-painted converted home just northwest of downtown to hear a story that […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ppn-l-prh-kalo-paris-unveil-0627.jpg?w=132 "Usually the well-worn path is one-way, from France to the United States, for high culture and haute cuisine alighting here via the Statue of Liberty, art galleries, fancy restaurants and bakeries. But when the course was reversed, in this instance from Park Ridge to the streets of Paris, there was cause for celebration on Saturday, June 15, via French champagne, charcuterie trays and macarons at the local Kalo Foundation for the most all-American of symbols – a bust of Abraham Lincoln. Park Ridge art patrons gathered at a white-painted converted home just northwest of downtown to hear a story that […]")
![Go to a Park Ridge youth game and you’ll likely meet an atypical soccer mom – no newcomer to the game. She’s a champion. She’s a Rocker. She’s either an Attacker or Terminator. And if you cross paths with Erin Curry, nee Farmer, she’s a Farm Dog. Select grade school-age soccer players in town have an elite lineage. Their mothers were part of the Rockers traveling team that quickly won titles soon after its start-up in the early 1990s. They were hardly the definition of an “expansion team.” The Rockers won between 12 and 15 tournaments […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ppn-l-prh-rockers-dickinson.jpg?w=117 "Go to a Park Ridge youth game and you’ll likely meet an atypical soccer mom – no newcomer to the game. She’s a champion. She’s a Rocker. She’s either an Attacker or Terminator. And if you cross paths with Erin Curry, nee Farmer, she’s a Farm Dog. Select grade school-age soccer players in town have an elite lineage. Their mothers were part of the Rockers traveling team that quickly won titles soon after its start-up in the early 1990s. They were hardly the definition of an “expansion team.” The Rockers won between 12 and 15 tournaments […]")
![When Park Ridge’s Memorial Day parade steps out to march around 10 a.m. on the holiday, the accompanying music will be a two-way street. The patriotic melodies will remind participants and spectators the true purpose of Memorial Day — honoring veterans like Marie Sartor Pawelek, an active 100-year-old and 70-year Park Ridge resident who is serving as the parade’s grand marshal. And the instrumentals surely will spark more memories for Pawelek, during World War II a young singer who used music therapy to treat servicemen suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Pawelek, who turned 100 in January, lives independently in her […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ppn-l-prh-marie-pawelek2-0418.jpg?w=131 "When Park Ridge’s Memorial Day parade steps out to march around 10 a.m. on the holiday, the accompanying music will be a two-way street. The patriotic melodies will remind participants and spectators the true purpose of Memorial Day — honoring veterans like Marie Sartor Pawelek, an active 100-year-old and 70-year Park Ridge resident who is serving as the parade’s grand marshal. And the instrumentals surely will spark more memories for Pawelek, during World War II a young singer who used music therapy to treat servicemen suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Pawelek, who turned 100 in January, lives independently in her […]")
