Mitch Hurst

Giving back is in Rachel Gregersen’s DNA. She refers to her company, Beyond Shades, which has a showroom in Oak Brook, as the “little company that could.” Gregersen opened Beyond Shades after working for billion-dollar home fashion companies, and while she started small, she’s beginning to see a larger plan unfold. She views her commitment

As the old saying goes, the camera adds 20 pounds. Video conferencing use that increased exponentially during the pandemic revolutionized the way we communicate and spawned a number of trends. Home offices were converted into studios. Innovative, waist up wardrobes were invented to offer an aura of professionalism. For the most part the business world

During World War II, Avshi Weinstein’s grandfather, Moshe, immigrated from the Jewish Ghetto in Vilna, Poland (what is now Vilnius, Lithuania) to Palestine. He had completed his studies at the Conservatory of Vilna and went to Palestine looking to find work as a musician. But at the time there was an abundance of qualified violinists,

Twenty years ago, Barbara Paget had an idea. The Highland Park resident, long a volunteer in the cancer unit at Highland Park Hospital (there’s a plaque acknowledging her role in creating the Arthur G. Michel Education and Research Fund at what is now NorthShore University HealthSystem), established Cancer Survivor Beauty and Support Day to provide