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#HASHTAG: LILIA BARBA

Born and raised in Mexico, Glencoe’s LILIA BARBA is bringing fun to the North Shore. The mother of three has opened everyone’s favorite party store, Balloons & Paper. Located in Winnetka, the bountiful boutique is brimming with unique items created by female artisans. For anything from small helium bouquets to large-scale balloon installations for birthdays,

FILM FAN

Joshua Handler was 3 years old when his father showed him the original Star Wars. While he was too young to fully process it, Handler says it planted the seed that would grow into a lifelong love—or obsession, it might be safe to say—with film. Decades on, Handler now runs New York-based Picturehouse441, a live,

BONNE SANTÉ

Those who grew up on the North Shore know there is a universal code to do good in the world and help others as much as possible. For many families, it’s an unwritten rule and a way of life. Alison Browne Graf, one of three girls raised in Lake Forest by Anne and Jeff Browne,

ART IS GOOD

It was April 1979. Jimmy Carter was president, the Walkman had just been released, and Trivial Pursuit had just emerged on the scene. The Bee Gees and Gloria Gaynor were topping the charts and on television, people were watching Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, and the great Gilda Radner on a little

#HASHTAG: ERIN DONALDSON

Winnetka’s ERIN DONALDSON spent her early post-graduate years singing and tap dancing across The Goodman Theatre and Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s stages. A vocal cord injury sidelined her theater career, but not one to miss a beat, Donaldson pivoted into advertising, where she helped real estate mogul and Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran build a multi-billion-dollar

POOL TALENT

Vancouver native and Highland Park High School senior swimmer Kevin Obochi sits in the back row of his Statistics class this semester. The teacher is Obochi’s swimming coach, Tim Sirois, who, if he wanted to shake things up one day, could teach History—HPHS Swimming History, specifically—to the math students instead. All he’d have to do

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