Sherry Thomas

DESIGNING FROM INSIDE OUT

Leslie Bowman, founder of The Design Bar in Burr Ridge, reveals how a triggering life moment inspired her to rethink interior design from a health and wellness perspective. Click on the website for Burr Ridge-based The Design Bar and the first words you’ll see are: “Every home has a story. Let us help write yours.”

BEST IN HOME CARE

For 20 years, Home Helpers® Home Care of Hinsdale has made it possible for people to recover from injury or age in place gracefully. Brian Davis was attending a funeral in Milwaukee for the mother of his friend, Brad, about seven years ago when a very special woman in the audience was singled out in

THE PORTRAIT: MARISSA BOGLE

Volunteer Manager at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, reflects on her work and life in Lake Bluff. North Shore native and University of Missouri-Columbia graduate Marissa Bogle moved to Chicago to start her career in nonprofit fundraising, never imagining she’d return to the suburbs. But in 2017—a year before joining Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital

GATSBY GIRLS

“I’m glad it’s a girl I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” That line from the first chapter of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic novel, The Great Gatsby, defines the character of Daisy Buchanan as everything he thinks the wealthy, privileged young women

A CULINARY QUEST

Gaby Lozano Griffeth moved to Chicago from Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2008 to pursue a BA in Hospitality at Kendall College, fueled by her love of the culinary arts. “I had the privilege of working alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry,” says Griffeth, who now lives in Lake Forest with her husband, daughter,

SWEET HOME AMERICANA

As much as Mia Gregor enjoyed her decade living and working in Scottsdale, she was thrilled to bring her family back home to Lake Forest. “I was the lead of the pediatric neuropsychology department at a large children’s hospital in Arizona, treating children with complex neurological and medical diagnoses,” explains Gregor, a Lake Forest High

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