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Banish Cooking Fatigue

January inevitably brings the desire for clean, delicious, healthy food, traditionally requiring serious kitchen time. And let’s be honest, we have all spent more than our fair share of time making meals since COVID-19 hit so many months ago. Chicago-based Eat Purely is the tasty, nourishing answer to cooking and the sometimes not-so-healthy carry-out fatigue.

Dressed Up

Before the advent of social media and online shopping, Christy Vegosen opened a brickand- mortar women’s fashion boutique called Tickled Pink at Plaza del Lago in Wilmette. She’d dreamt of working in fashion—and even interned at luxury retailer Neiman Marcus— but the retail climate shifted quickly and she realized a change of pace was necessary.

Cathy Barancik Graham and her Creative Comeback

A few years ago Cathy Barancik Graham made a promise to herself to wake up every morning and sketch. She even labeled the drawings by day and date until there were simply too many to count. Graham joined Instagram and began sharing her drafts online. At the encouragement of her friend, interior designer (and author

Fashion X Interiors

A change in season means an opportunity to update your wardrobe. And with New York Fashion Week’s Pre-Fall and Fall/Winter hitting the runway December 6 through 10, we’re exploring some of the industry’s most desirable trends. However, a winter style update isn’t just for your wardrobe. Looks from this season’s runway easily translate into chic

Paddle Therapy

Audra Billmeyer, a former Division I collegiate tennis player at Vanderbilt, recalls the first time she stepped onto a platform tennis court. It was during a maternity leave and she had not picked up a racket of any kind in years. “Exmoor had just completed a new paddle hut and my husband said, ‘Get out

Oh, Tannenbaum

As early as the Roman winter solstice of Saturnalia, the darkest time of the year was celebrated with light, festivals, and boughs of evergreen. The Christmas tree, dating to 16th century Germany, has been a Christian tradition for centuries— one that has been adopted by the masses as the holiday evolved into the 21st century.

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