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Beth Boyd’s wheels—either the ones on her sleek velobike or the figurative ones in her mind—are always turning. In addition to being the founder and principal designer of Wiley Designs LLC in Highland Park and serving the final year of a three-year term as president of the board of trustees of the Lake Forest-based artists’

No wonder poet/essayist Laura Joyce- Hubbard, who flew unarmed U.S. Air Force C-130s carrying relief cargo during the Bosnia War in the mid-1990s, is the City of Highland Park’s first Poet Laureate. Even snippets of passages in her essays could pass for stirring stanzas. To wit: “Rich jade mountains unrolled beneath our flight path,” she

As a tot growing up in Highland Park, Colleen Boilini skipped the middle stage of the crawl-walk-run continuum. “My mom (Paula) told me I ran before I attempted to walk when I was nine months old,” says Boilini, now 40 years old and the assistant athletic director at her alma mater, Highland Park High School

Cobwebs must have blanketed Christie Jordan’s tennis racket when she decided to free the stick from its gauzy prison four years ago. The North Shore resident and founder of Source Healing—an inspired, holistic wellness clinic that recently opened a third location in Lake Forest—hadn’t wielded the racket since her senior year in high school. “I