Ann Marie Scheidler

IT TAKES A VILLAGE

Lifelong friends Meera Sinha and Emma Huntley leverage their expertise in early childhood development to build a community for moms. Growing up as next-door neighbors on an idyllic block in Evanston, Meera Sinha and Emma Huntley forged a bond that would last a lifetime. Without even a fence to separate them, their families intertwined like

IT’S A VIBE

Lake Forest’s Lillie Alexander Boutique creates a personal connection with its customers that keep them coming back. WHEN LAUREN PETERS BRINGS a new employee on to the Lillie Alexander team, she hands them a copy of the “Vibe Guide” that she wrote for the boutique when she took it over last fall. “It’s all about

NOTHING BITTY ABOUT THIS BALM

Frustrated with the lack of clean and simple beauty products available on the market, Maggie Schmieder took ingredients into her own hands and made Bitty Balm. “I’M NOT A PROBLEM SOLVER,” Maggie Schmieder says. “I’m a solution ﬁnder.” Never was a truer statement said by Schmieder of herself—a Jane of All Trades, full-time special education

AND THE READERS ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER

Barrington’s Katie Shober inspires a love of reading through her wildly popular Instagram account Beach Reads & Bubbly. When Barrington’s Katie Shober was a little girl, she loved to go to the library with her mom. “It was the greatest thing,” she recalls with her signature sparkle. “I remember thinking I was so rich. I

COUNTRY HOUSE TRANSFORMATION

The Lake Forest Chapter of the Infant Welfare Society prepares to unveil the organization’s 20th Lake Forest Showhouse & Gardens—perhaps the most spectacular and significant one to date. THE 2025 LAKE FOREST SHOWHOUSE & GARDENS will be a celebration of our organization’s 20th showhouse—and it will be one of most astonishing transformations our guests have

GETTING THEIR HANDS DIRTY

Gardening 2 Grow—the newest parent organization recognized by District 67—is overseeing the implementation of gardening into the elementary and middle school’s curriculum. SEVERAL YEARS AGO, when Lisa Walsh’s youngest child was at Sheridan School, she co-founded a garden club for its students. It wasn’t long before the garden was producing enough vegetables that Walsh, who

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