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People First

by Allison Duncan • June 11, 2021

Nadia Rawlinson used to be a road warrior. The tech executive regularly commuted between the Chicago area and her office on the West Coast, where she was Chief Human Resources…
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Sunday Breakfast: Dr. Jeremy Warner

by Monica Kass Rogers • January 16, 2020

As a precocious five-year-old in Salt Lake City, Utah, Jeremy Warner wanted to learn to ski. His dad agreed, but on one condition. “I had to put my skis on…
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Sunday Breakfast: Susan Kelsey

by Bill McLean • January 9, 2020

The Lake Forest author and Legacy Film announced the development of a Billy Caldwell (Chief Sauganash) documentary film on June 21. Caldwell, an Irish/Mohawk leader in the Chicago area, was…
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Family Act

by Monica Kass Rogers • January 5, 2020

Actors Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti can’t decide which was more fun: Meryl Streep ad lib-ing silly new endings in scenes of the Emmy-winning HBO series Big Little Lies just to…
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Telling Tales

by Monica Kass Rogers • December 30, 2019

There is the story, and there is the telling. The jumble of wordplay, timing, whimsy, and daring that comes together to make a great story always transcends, leaving the listener…
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Clean and Green

by Monica Kass Rogers • December 25, 2019

The morning sun coming through the windows at Forest Greens Juice Bar in Lake Bluff splashes little pools of light on the café tables, illuminating the rainbow-hued array of cold-pressed…
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Sunday Breakfast: Rabbi Jacob Rosenberg

by Monica Kass Rogers • December 21, 2019

Rabbi Jacob Rosenberg is used to it. Strangers meeting him for the first time hear his title, see his bright, bearded face, and the yarmulke perched on the back of…
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Giving the Gift of Reading

by Debbie Lee • December 21, 2019

When they were young girls growing up in Lake Forest, Cecelia Gottman would tease Lauren Fairchild for burying her nose in books. “As a kid, I wasn’t as interested in…
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The Little Closet that Could

by Monica Kass Rogers • December 16, 2019

North Chicago’s Mary Carmody stands in the middle of a tangled field of grasses, with wooded acreage beyond. To her right, a clapboard farmhouse looms near a copse of oak…
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Kenilworth Cooks

by Monica Kass Rogers • December 9, 2019

It’s a snowy Thursday night and Shawn Bard’s house is lit up like a film set. Out in front, cars park, doors slam, and clusters of women hurry up the…
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