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#HASHTAG: MARY MICHELLE SCALISE

Lake Forest native MARY MICHELLE SCALISE has spent her entire life in the Chicago area, including the last 25 years in Glencoe. When not working for her family business Art Environments Inc.—which curates art collections for medical, corporate, and retirement homes—she directs plays for The Junior Tower Players and The Tower Players at Sacred Heart

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In 2006, the husband-and-wife team of Irv Cernauskas and Shelly Herman founded Fresh Picks, an online store delivering groceries to customers’ doorsteps. While the grocery delivery service Peapod preceded Fresh Picks (and Instacart would come along six years later), the couple’s business model had a distinctly regional flair. Over time, they developed relationships with independent

DREAM DRIVE

I have a confession to make. In my years of loving cars (which has been since birth), my brand of choice has been the vintage—Jaguars, Lotus, Porsche (think Esprit, 911s, the iconic air cooled, and the unmistakable super cars of the ‘80s when I was a teenager). But when our media partner, McLaren Automotive, presented

SUMMER’S IN SESSION

It’s that time of year—the evenings are long, the weather is warm, and school is almost out. Those in the know are likely headed for a day trip to the Village of Rosemont, where the town’s entertainment district was designed to suit the summer. With a lineup of free events, fireworks, an unbeatable concert series,

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I have many identities— mysterious, chameleonlike personas hatched by the people who run the operation. They orchestrate my every move. Send me flying back and forth through the decades, time-traveler style. One year I’m in 19th century Paris at the Moulin Rouge; the next, I’m skipping ahead to the summer of 1922 at an imagined

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