“We don’t do beach,” said my cousin Bob, who lives less than four blocks from the alluring lakefront of Evanston, Ill. But he’d been warned. Every summer I visit the Chicago area to see friends I know from a mid-1990s fellowship year at Northwestern University. And ever since discovering three years ago, to my delight, that I had cousins living in Evanston, I’ve been dragging them to the beach. Read full article >>