When Lisa Kahley left her job as an account supervisor for global advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather to raise two children at home in Clarendon Hills, she was ready for…
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Safe House
She remembers the day clearly. Sitting in a meeting in an Evanston office, clinical psychologist Cassandra Ma heard the voices drone on, discussing, dissecting, debating, and rebutting theories on why…
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Good Vibrations
With pillows stuffed in the window wells and the black lights on, the practice and studio space in the basement of Colin Ratcliff’s Hinsdale home is awash in magenta and…
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Love Story
As childhood-sweetheart stories go, the tale of former Chicago Blackhawks winger Eric Daze and his wife Guylaine is a charmer. There were matchmaking mishaps, extended absences filled with letters and…
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Go Outside Your Element
Building on the past to make a better future often requires moving outside the box. Now on the cusp of its 70th anniversary, the Hinsdale Junior Woman’s Club (HJWC) has done…
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Fly The Coop
“Watch the door now, Gracie will run out as soon as you open it,” says Annie Tandy, as we stand in her Western Springs backyard. “She’s always the first one…
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All Together Now
There are currently more than 600,000 children in the United States foster care system. Of those children, more than three quarters have been separated from their siblings, to be reunited…
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Play It Again, Frankie
In a bright pink baseball cap, tennis shoes, and tube top, with hot pink nails to match, 18-year-old Francesca “Frankie” Barreda plunks down on the top porch step of her…
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Sculpting History
A stroll through sculptor Rebecca Childers Caleel’s Oak brook home is a gallery walk in and of itself. To the left, the airy den is peopled with statues, reclining female…
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Lobs Of Love
It’s a story of sibling synergy and pint-sized philanthropy. From the time she was 5 years old, Mattigan Kelly followed in her brother Crofton’s footsteps as an avid tennis player,…
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