Decades before realizing her dream of opening Proper Bonkers — an antiques shop on the Northwest Side — Irena Dujmovic-Terman fled war-torn Bosnia with her boyfriend and a backpack.
Its contents were a what-would-you-bring-to-a-desert-island mishmash of books, clothes and cassette tapes, as well as what little money they had. The heaviest item was a chunk of stone from the bombed and burnt ruins of the historic Sarajevo library where Mrs. Dujmovic-Terman, a language student, devoted countless hours to study.
