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JIM STAPLES GOT THE TRAVEL BUG at young age. His father was an attorney, and often would travel to the firm’s offices scattered around the globe, taking the family with him. Staples was all too happy to tag along. A fouryear rugby player at the University of Michigan, Jim spent a summer in Australia playing

Make major operatic artist Bill Powers laugh inside a building and you’d risk the collapse of a few walls. Powers’ voice is that thunderous, that deep, and that impactful. When Powers starred as Mephistopheles in the opera Faust, the conductor told him, “You have the power to terrify.” A contest pitting Powers’ bass-baritone guffaw vs.

With health and wellness top of mind this month, many Hinsdale area residents are chipping away at resolutions and planning for their healthiest year yet. Each year, we bring you the area’s premier doctors across a variety of specialties—from cardiology and dermatology to internal medicine and dentistry—to help you find the ultimate care team. Fortunately

Marriage is a partnership. But partnership takes on a whole new meaning when a couple works together. The “Have a good day” and “Honey, I’m home” phrases that bookend most spouses’ days don’t come into play when a husband and wife are running a business together. Not every duo can survive without a little bit

In sports, the stakes are high, competition is fierce, and stress is an ever-present companion. While it has the potential to strain relationships, stress can also serve as a powerful force that can test and fortify bonds within the athletic community and the relationships that bind it together—athletes and coaches, coaches and staff, parents and