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Any Given Snow Day

Powder white snowflakes dance their way to the ground, overhead the sky is banked in white clouds, and a chill hangs in the air. From a distance, one can see the blue jacket of Scott Vukovich zipping down the mountain at Wilmot Mountain Ski Resort—30 miles away in Wisconsin. As one of the longest

Aesthetics Ambassador

The power of Pauline Brown. Pauline Brown is a renowned authority on luxury market masterpieces. As the former Chairman of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton North America, she is well-versed in assessing worth based on rarity, quality, condition, and provenance. In 2016, she made a career transition from high-end retail in corporate settings such as

Dancing King

When he was 2 years old, Mark Howard survived a nearly calamitous voyage on the Queen Mary with his parents to arrive in the U.S. Howard’s father, a born and raised, true-blood Irishman, and his mother, of Irish descent but born in Yorkshire, England, started their new lives in Rogers Park. After a bit of

The Luckiest Charm

LUCK HAS BEEN A perennial guiding light for Van Cleef & Arpels, inspiring some of its most iconic creations. Fourleaf clover motifs first appeared in the Maison’s archives in the 1920s, embellishing select creations over the years alongside other symbols of good fortune including wooden talismans, charms, and benevolent fairies. Jacques Arpels, nephew of the

ANDY MROWIEC AND MARINA CARNEY

Joining forces in 1999, Carney and Mrowiec have created one of the most successful residential sales partnerships on the North Shore. With more than $780 million in career sales, this Griffith, Grant & Lackie Realtors team is consistently ranked in the Top 1 percent in volume for Illinois and in the Top 2 percent nationally.

MEGAN MCCLEARY

The No. 1 Hinsdale real estate broker for Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Chicago, Megan and her associates at McCleary Group are well connected. She is consistently ranked as one of the best in the real estate business in Hinsdale and Chicago’s Western Suburbs, and among the top 1 percent of brokers in the nation. Why you

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