Christopher Borrelli: Jenny Sanford came home to Chicago. Specifically to Winnetka, where she grew up as Jenny Sullivan. She came home for the most spectacular of reasons: She left her husband. You've heard about this. She left Mark Sanford, the governor of South Carolina, because he disappeared in June for five days and spent the week with his "soul mate," as he explained later. At first, his aides claimed he wasn't around (on a Father's Day weekend, no less) because he was "hiking the Appalachian Trail." He was in South America, with his Argentine mistress. So, Jenny Sanford, wife of 20 years, dumped him and wrote a book.
"Is it uncomfortable to come back like this?" she said a few hours before her appearance Tuesday at the Book Stall in Winnetka while sitting in the lounge of the Four Seasons Hotel off Michigan Avenue. "No more so than going anywhere else. In other cities, I hear all these women's sad stories. Here, I'm getting high-fives! I got a high-five from a guy in the lobby with a big hat. Here, I see family, catch up with old friends. Here, it's way better."
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