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Nurturing and Emerging

THERE IS A pervading peace at Ragdale at the end of the fall season. The sprawling, pastoral grounds contain colorful clusters of fallen leaves and native plants holding onto the last days of autumn. In the distance, the expansive prairie is a breathtaking vista of texture and color. Inside the Ragdale house, the former summer

The Calm Amid the Storm

Timothy Daw has been with Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP since his clerking days in law school. Today, he’s a shareholder of the firm and has seen its growth from a small group of attorneys developing a new kind of family law firm to one of the most respected and successful family law firms in

Spotlight on Kindness

PICTURE A LIGHTHOUSE. There it stands, a tower of strength and comfort, tall and firm and reliable. See it? Good. Need a light, be it atop calm waters or troubled waters? It’ll deliver, unwaveringly. “A lighthouse,” Lake Forest author Steve Pemberton says, “is the most selfless structure, one that has never needed technology. It’s there

Welcome Back, We’re Ready For You!

Writers Theatre has been an artistic mainstay on the North Shore for 30 years. What began as a makeshift theater with only 50 seats in the back of a bookstore has blossomed into an award-winning theater group and a much-lauded component of the Chicago theater scene. Now, Executive Director Kate Lipuma and Interim Artistic Director

Let It Be Us

Eileen Turkot is a working mother to three young boys living in Barrington. She is also a licensed foster parent. When people hear that she fosters children, they often stop and tell her what she’s doing is amazing. “I always feel guilty when people say this to me,” says Turkot. “What they don’t know is

Road Warrior

The most impactful words a young Pat McKillen ever heard from his mother, Diane, at home in Tower Lakes weren’t, “Go to your room.” Nor were they, “Eat your vegetables.” They were, “Did you hear that?” “My mom liked to listen to music in our house when I was growing up,” recalls McKillen, a 2006

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