Sherry Thomas

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

NEEDLE OF HOPE

A few generations ago, a young retailer named Marshall Field famously quipped a six-word business motto that would define his eponymous department store—“Give the lady what she wants.” Fast forward more than a century and one might say his namesake great-grandson (several times over) is repurposing that mantra, albeit for a more altruistic cause—a valiant

THE CONVERSATION ARTIST

You’re on the phone with the one and only Michaele McDonnell, and she just got back from Istanbul and Cappadocia in Turkey, one of 16 countries she’s visited on global gallivants that have taken her from North America to Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. Give this vivacious docent, art consultant, and community volunteer a

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