Ann Marie Scheidler

When Anna Chadwick Gardner was a young professional living in New York in the late 1990s, she knew she had a story to tell. “I graduated from Tulane with a degree in finance, and the job market was booming,” says Gardner, who now lives in Winnetka with her husband and three children. “There were so

Vickie Marasco’s middle child struggled with substance issues when he was at Lake Forest High School in 2013. “At that time, it was interesting facing an issue like this in a community that feels like they don’t have these kinds of problems,” Marasco explains. “But those issues do happen and are happening in places like

As a young man, it was never part of F.J. Phillips’s life plan to one day raise his family in the town he grew up in—Wilmette. “Both of my parents were raised in the same part of Wilmette. We have lots of roots in this area going back to the mid-40s,” Phillips says. “My kids

“We love to shop, browse, scroll, click, and thumb through magazines and catalogs,” says Stephanie Knight, co-chair with Lisa Chang and Dana Geldermann of the 44th Annual Holiday Boutique on November 16-18 at Lake Forest Recreation Center. “We wanted to bring what we see out there on social media and in magazine editorials here to

What’s that saying—do what you love and you won’t work a day in your life? That’s exactly how Lake Barrington’s Lauren Hansen lives her life, turning a creative outlet into a profitable interior design business. In March of 2020, just before the world shut down, Lauren and Trevor Hansen sold their Chicago condo on a