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#HASHTAG: JESSICA MONTGOMERY

After seven cross-country moves and several years living in Stockholm, JESSICA MONTGOMERY and her family decided to call Winnetka home. Originally from the East Coast, she and her husband met at Virginia Tech. As their careers started to unfold, the couple found themselves traveling the world. Montgomery began her career in education, but a passion

#HASHTAG: LAURA MERLO

How do you find true happiness at age 50? For LAURA MERLO, owner of Reach Yoga and co-owner of Merlo’s Italian Restaurant, happiness is creating a life you don’t need a vacation from. Growing up in New York and moving to Chicago in 1992, Merlo settled in Glencoe 13 years ago with her husband, John,

HOPE THROUGH ART

The first text message from a woman living in Ireland to Highland Park artist Jessica Kaplan pinged several years ago. The woman wanted to praise and thank Kaplan for brightening her life after months of steady gloom. They had never met in person. They had never spoken on the phone. The life-changing elixir for the

DECIDEDLY EXCITED

Lake Forest Country Day School’s Head of Lower School-elect, Rachel Diaz, sits in a room near the school’s library and can’t stop smiling. She’s sharing how well her 3-year-old son, River, communicates. “He’s at that age,” Diaz says, “when everything to him makes him say either, ‘Wow!’ or, ‘That’s so cool!’ I love hearing his

HOOPING IT UP

Diederich Park in the village of Golf (pop. 514) does not feature a sign that reads PAIGE ENGELS DRIBBLED BASKETBALLS HERE, but it should. Engels, a Golf resident who prefers aiming shots at rims with nets to clubbing shots at greens with flagsticks, honed her three-point shot at Diederich Park and helped the girls’ basketball

#HASHTAG: SUNNY FISCHER

SUNNY FISCHER is a well-known Evanstonian and former teacher at North Shore Country Day and Lake Forest Academy who has dedicated her life’s work to philanthropy, preservation, and pioneering change throughout Chicago. Her commitment to serving others has been passed on to her children, who regularly thank her for raising them in Evanston where the

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