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Over ten years ago, Wilmette natives Kiki Eliopoulos, Jack DeMar and Eric Kogan walked the halls of New Trier Township High School with big dreams of opening a restaurant together.  After years of DeMar harboring a “big crush” on Eliopoulos, she said the pair dated fleetingly at the end of their senior year before splitting...

As kids in Wilmette, Jack DeMar, Eric Kogan and Kiki Eliopoulos always dreamed of collaborating on a business.  Mensch’s, a Jewish-style pop-up deli in Evanston, is that dream come true.  “We actually all grew up together,” Kogan said. “We’ve known each other for 20-plus years at this point, and we’ve always been talking about a...

Photographer Eric Kogan was walking on a sidewalk in New York City when he spotted his doppelganger: it was John Lennon in a poster.

Photographer Eric Kogan likes to pull the unexpected from the common and he does that by observing the streets of New York and noticing all the curious coincidences that occur.

Photographer Eric Kogan likes to pull the unexpected from the common and he does that by observing the streets of New York and noticing all the curious coincidences that occur.

Photographer Eric Kogan likes to pull the unexpected from the common and he does that by observing the streets of New York and noticing all the curious coincidences that occur.

It’s interesting how different the world can seem through a camera lens. Some people might be excited to take it out only for special occasions or when they see a colorful sunset. But others will keep it in their hands all the time and will make simple moments more special by making them permanent i