Curious Hair wrote:
I understand that Dan's dad is an attorney of considerable repute, but I don't think Deerfield is "money" the way, say, Lake Forest or Highland Park or Winnetka is. It's obviously a very pleasant, affluent suburb, and I'm sure the public schools are great, but a mere mention of its name doesn't elicit hushed gasps and conjure up visions of brick mansions while Pachelbel's Canon plays. It's Northbrook with lower sales taxes, really.
I mean, unless "comes from money in the north burbs" is a euphemism for "he's Jewish," in which case yes, he is, but that's not germane.
Well, maybe I'm speaking out of my proverbial ass about Deerfield then. You have to understand a guy like me who has only lived in Oak Lawn, Chicago Ridge, Champaign-Urbana, the South Loop and Mount Greenwood in the city thinks a place like Deerfield is affluent. Dan being a Hebrew is irrelevant, unless we are speaking of his Theo Epstein envy.