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THE BUZZ: FEBRUARY 2024

LOCALLY SOURCED Elevate your shopping experience with groceries delivered from Fresh Picks, Chicago’s local grocery delivery service. Fresh Picks provides customers with an alternative experience of grocery shopping, one that allows them to know where their food is from and what went into its production. This level of transparency is made possible by sourcing directly

A WELL-BUILT LIFE

Imagine white lines on blue paper—a structural rendering of a life to be influenced by its uncanny, yet serendipitous, exposure to work by some of the world’s greatest architects. Thus was the blueprint that renowned local historic preservation expert and author Arthur H. Miller was destined to follow from childhood in Kalamazoo, Michigan— growing up

HEALTH, HAPPINESS, AND HUSTLE

It’s fitting that BIÂN co-founder Mar Soraparu once aspired to be a jazz singer. The same skills that define jazz— improvisation, communication, synthesis, innovation— have been called upon often by the Wilmette resident in her role as Chief Wellness Officer at the heralded River North club, which was founded in late 2020. BIÂN is a

BEAU-DACIOUS SEASON

You’re a sous-chef who gets to wear the big toque now that the restaurant’s James Beard Award-winning chef took a job overseas. Or you’re a longtime sub who gets to take over for a Golden Apple Award-winning high school teacher, who had suddenly retired. Or a Pulitzer Prize Award-winning journalist who sits next to you

IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE

While the lynching of Emmett Till is well known as the spark that fueled the civil rights movement, what is less known is the story of the trial that sought to bring his murderers, J.W. Milan and Roy Bryant, to justice. Till’s murder took place in 1955 but it wasn’t until 50 years later, when

#HASHTAG: LINCOLN SCHATZ

Artist LINCOLN SCHATZ’s studio practice spans photography, sculpture, drawing, and new media. His genre-defying work has been exhibited in major museums and international collections including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the U.S. Department of State, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Beginning in 2015, Schatz began to undertake work on The Lake Series, a project

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