ONE OF THE pillars of Lake Forest Open Lands is to grow conservation leaders. So, it should come as no surprise that the environmental nonprofit looked inward when it was…
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Final Bow
IF YOU’RE A LOCAL who has had a child in the last 20 years, you’ve likely been lucky enough to cross paths with Tom and Susie Beck, the duo behind…
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A Century of Style
IT’S A SIGNIFICANT milestone for any retailer to celebrate 100 years in business. It’s even more so when you know that it’s a family-owned business that had to navigate its…
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The Art Of Giving
DARCI PINELLO is no stranger to hard work. When she was 16 years old, after one too many fender benders with her car, her Dad put her to work at…
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Stylish Soiree
WHEN CASSIE CARVER, Caroline Eimerman, and Kristin Lambropoulos were students at Lake Forest’s Everett Elementary School, they could never have dreamed that one day the three of them would come together…
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Ready For Take Off
AS A YOUNG executive in pharmaceutical sales in the early 2000s, Annie Pezza learned that the most successful products always solved a problem. “Growing up, I moved around a lot,”…
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Bringing the Sunshine
SOMETIMES good ideas can shine right in front of your eyes. This was precisely the situation with the bubbly Dominque Ittner, who grew up in Lake Forest and returned to…
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Making Ties
SARAH SOMERS’ luxury scarf brand, Deseda, will be celebrating its third anniversary later this year. When Somers first launched her company in 2019, the story was about a female entrepreneur…
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Beauty 101
THE NORTH SHORE’S Jen Bobay has always had a connection to the beauty world, first through her grandmother who was a hairdresser in the city and then as a teacher who…
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Visible
WHEN LELIA PURKY was 18 months old, she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy (CP), a condition that often makes introductions for her before she ever says a word. “I know I…
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