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Art Instinct

You wouldn’t go out and buy a wardrobe of clothes in one year and assume that’s it forever, and I approach art and design the same way,” says Alan Koppel. The proprietor and founder of Alan Koppel Gallery, opened in downtown Chicago in the 1990s and has recently expanded to a second space on the

Dragonfly

Highland Park’s JESSICA MERAR is on a mission to spread awareness for pediatric cancer and raise funds to support local children battling cancer. As a Certified Child Life Specialist, Merar had been on the front lines of care at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital for 14 years. She saw the need for Dragonfly,

The Buzz: September 2021

THE HISTORY CENTER OF LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF PROUDLY SALUTES THE HONORABLE SUSAN GARRETT AS ITS 2021 LOCAL LEGEND. Lawmaker, Mentor, and Mobilizer. A dedicated lawmaker and pioneer for women in state politics, Susan Garrett is a champion of the environment, health care, education and ethics, and a mentor for women entrepreneurs. Her leadership has continually

Portrait of an Artist

North Shore-based artist and filmmaker Maggie Meiners just received her MFA from Maine Media College this spring, but she first fell in love with art back in 1996. She visited a Kodak photography retrospective at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London before marrying her husband and decided then and there to pursue her passion.

The Real Deal

Winnetka-based real estate agent, KATIE MOOR, or “@northshore_katiemoor” as many of her friends now half-jokingly call her, has a love for the North Shore that extends beyond the depths of Lake Michigan. She’ll never forget the day she first visited the area, nearly 20 years ago. It was one of those “top-ten” summer days, and

Nature Made

For a year in the late 1980s, painter Allison Svoboda lived on just $10 a day. She had recently been laid off from her job of four years at an architecture firm in Chicago and took the opportunity to travel the world with her now-husband. Because of their limited budget, the pair primarily spent time

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