Heart Warming
A teenage boy wakes up and sees the first Valentine’s Day card he’d ever received hanging on the wall in his room. He’d put it there. Maybe he was a…
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A teenage boy wakes up and sees the first Valentine’s Day card he’d ever received hanging on the wall in his room. He’d put it there. Maybe he was a…
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by Bill McLean •
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Late last year, with his final prep swimming season on pause and his “commute” to school roughly the distance between his bed and a nearby computer screen, Lake Forest High…
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Good thing the taxicab driver that smuggled Dr. Rami Taha out of war-torn Iraq stashed Taha’s duffel bag near the cab’s engine. Had the hired smuggler simply placed the luggage…
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You would be hard pressed to find someone who embodies all things health and wellness more than Lake Forest’s Dena Dodd Perry. Describing herself as a healthy lifestyle engineer, Perry…
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by Sherry Thomas •
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It’s a busy pre-pandemic Friday morning at Tala Coffee shop in Highwood. Jessica Margot (Federighi) sips a foamy green matcha chai while her business partner Elizabeth Scott enjoys a latte….
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Two young female entrepreneurs, Ellie Houston and Campbell Eggers, seized the opportunity of their unexpected free time and joined together to cultivate a small business during the pandemic. The pair…
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Chloé Mendel recalls after-school walks home along the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where she grew up, and fond memories of her regular visits to her father’s J. Mendel workroom,…
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A teenaged Jeff Perry worked at a shoe repair shop in Cleveland for four years. He’d ring up sales on the cash register, resole shoes, and affix replacement heels—all while…
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by Mitch Hurst •
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Visitors to Whitehall in Lake Forest can be forgiven for assuming they’ve been cast as modern-day extras in a classic British period drama. The estate, commissioned in 1920 by Continental…
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by Allison Duncan •
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Portugal native Sonia Afonso calls the world home, having lived in locales like Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, and Tokyo before eventually landing in Lake Forest. But it was in 2018 when…
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