Deerfield Review

Trax makes its way to new, healthy menu

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:02:41 -0600

Trax Tavern and Grill in Deerfield has brand-new, healthier menu items. Robert Cohn, general manager of the restaurant, said that he began looking at healthier choices after talking to customers. “We are very customer-oriented,” Cohn said. “I talked to the parents about it, and they said they would rather have their kids have a smoothie than a soda to drink. So we added a smoothie machine.” Smoothies, in a variety of fruit flavors like strawberry and banana, sell for $3.99. The smoothie machine also creates new cocktails for the restaurant, including margaritas and daiquiris. “We added more salads and some …

Starcom announces new media supervisor

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:56:01 -0600

Ben Chardell has been promoted to media supervisor on the Microsoft account at Starcom MediaVest Group in Deerfield. Chardell had strategy supervisor responsibility for the Microsoft Office account effective Jan. 1, 2012. Chardell began work at Starcom in March 2011. He was previously a media planner and buyer, working on clients Microsoft, Heinz, Beef Council and Luxottica. He graduated from Northeastern Illinois University with a bachelor of science degree in marketing in 2010. He grew up in Deerfield and graduated from Deerfield High School. …

Jewel-Osco parent to cut 800 jobs; 20 in Itasca

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:58:02 -0600

Jewel-Osco is cutting 20 positions at its Itasca headquarters as part of a companywide restructuring by parent company Supervalu that will eliminate 800 jobs, the grocer said Tuesday.

Who’s winning streaming video war?

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:06:03 -0600

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Lose weight not money; check with BBB before joining gym

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:42:26 -0600

Each new year, millions of people crowd into gyms armed with willpower and personal goals toward healthier, more active lifestyles. While it’s exciting to gear up towards a goal, it’s also important to treat this decision like any other major purchase. If you’re pledging to lose some pounds this year by joining a gym, the Better Business Bureau provides 10 questions to ask before signing on the dotted line. In the past 12 months, the BBB serving Chicago and northern Illinois has received 296 complaints against health clubs and fitness centers. The complaints range from billing and collection issues to …

New business resource established

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:23:05 -0600

The MasterMind Advisory Board is a newly formed resource for established and newer enterprises as well as non-profit organizations that seek the support of an experienced advisory board tailored to the unique needs of their operation. The MasterMind Advisory Board, comprised of experienced business people that have built, grown, led and advised a diverse group of companies, will help analyze and address issues facing its business clients. Marla Glabe, a founder of Mastermind Advisory Board LLC and partner with Management Control International Inc., noted “Our founders regularly meet to advise each other on their own business opportunities and challenges and …

New drum teacher at Village Music Store

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:18:53 -0600

Alex Zeravica has joined the teaching staff at the Village Music Store in Deerfield, teaching drum set, snare drum and conga, bongo and orchestral bells. He has studied music and has a bachelor of arts degree in film scoring from the Berklee College of Music in Boston and has taught students of all ages for six years. He is currently performing with several musical groups. The staff of professional music teachers at the store provide lessons on drum set, guitar in all it’s forms — electric, acoustic and bass — keyboard and piano, band instruments including brass and woodwinds, and …

Walgreens to move tech department to Bannockburn

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:21:25 -0600

(An earlier version of this story misstated the number of Walgreens employees and the month of the move) Another Fortune 500 company is about to put down roots in Bannockburn. Walgreens has leased a one-story office building at 1000 Lakeside Drive near Interstate 94 and Half Day Road. Just a few weeks ago, Catalyst Health Solutions, Inc., signed a lease to occupy 1200 Lakeside Drive, a three-story office building built in 1999, Bannockburn Village Manager Maria Lasday said. Then, the North Shore University Health System announced it would move into the Bannockburn Mediplex, 2151 Waukegan Road. Now, Walgreens has leased …

Tellabs cutting 530 jobs

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:18:01 -0600

Tellabs is cutting 530 jobs in a companywide restructuring, citing “a climate of economic uncertainty” for the Naperville-based telecommunications equipment maker. An unknown number will be cut at Tellabs’ research and development center in Naperville.

Stein Mart: Poor performance led to Deerfield store closing

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:37:49 -0600

Stein Mart, which occupied a center spot at Deerfield’s Cadwell Corners shopping center for five years until the end of 2011, left because the store was not performing up to expectations. Stein Mart Chief Financial Officer Greg Kleffner said there wasn’t enough traffic there to keep the store afloat, although it sat kiddy corner to Deerbrook Mall, a busy, 130-acre shopping center on the southwest corner of Lake Cook and Waukegan roads. “The only stores that we close are those that are not doing well economically. And that one was not,” Kleffner said. “We would still like to be in …

Abbott plans to lay off 700 workers

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:50:02 -0600

Abbott Laboratories announced plans Wednesday to lay off 700 employees, most of them in the Chicago area.

Attorney promoted to partner

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:39:26 -0600

Todd M. Glassman, who grew up in Deerfield and went to Deerfield High School and a resident of the Bucktown neighborhood in Chicago, has been promoted to a partner at the family law firm of Ladden & Allen, Chartered, located at 150 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 3600 in Chicago. The firm offers professional, caring and accessible representation, including marriage, divorce and complex divorces, mediation, financial settlements and child custody. Ronald S. Ladden and Gemma B. Allen, the firm’s principals, have represented more than 2,000 men and women on family law issues. Glassman joined the firm in December 2007 as an …

Report: Illinois teen employment at lowest rate

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:54:41 -0600

Teen employment has continued to plummet in Illinois, according to a new report from Northeastern University. The rate dived to 27.5 percent in 2011, the lowest teen employment rate in the 42 years for which data is available. It is down from just under 50 percent in 1999-2000 and from 36 percent in 2007.

Robert Feiger named publisher of JUF News

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:47:03 -0600

Robert Feiger has been named publisher of JUF News, the monthly publication of the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. Mailed to more than 40,000 subscribers each month, JUF News is the largest circulation newsmagazine serving Chicago’s Jewish community. Feiger has been the advertising sales and marketing director since 2000. In the newly created position, Feiger will oversee strategic planning and is responsible for advertising sales and marketing, circulation, business processes and scheduling for JUF News publications and websites. Earlier in his career, Feiger worked with Cahners Reed Elsevier, The New York Times, Meredith, and Chicago Magazine. Feiger, 50, …

Deerfield woman teaches healing power of breathing

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:44:45 -0600

Yoga and meditation instructor Susan Ginsberg said she found a higher calling when she started a special business in 2007, helping cancer patients and those with illnesses cure their anxiety through the power of breathing. Ginsberg’s program, Stop and Breathe, teaches people the proper way to breathe deeply as a tool for relaxation. “I was a yoga teacher previously, and I started working with a woman that was going through cancer treatments,” Ginsberg said. “She wanted me to teach yoga, meditation, relaxation to her and to her close friends and family so they could support her. She had said something …

Richard Zemel joins Charter One

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:03:07 -0600

Richard Zemel, 55, a long-time resident of Highland Park, joined Charter One as a mortgage loan officer. His office is in Deerfield. Zemel originates a wide range of mortgage loan programs, including both conventional and government loans. Charter One’s expanded capabilities and programs, including jumbo and construction loans originated for portfolio, enable him to meet a variety of home financing needs. Zemel has been in the mortgage business for eight years. He came to Charter One from Bank of America, where he was a loan officer. He previously owned a retail store in downtown Highland Park. He graduated from Indiana …