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One thing is for certain. The annual Misericordia Women’s League (MWL) Heart of Gold Gala is a must-attend for many people. Always uplifting and surely inspiring, this is a family affair with generations of local dynasties coming together to support the worthiest of organizations. Misericordia opened its doors in 1921 as a maternity hospital for

As Regional President, Central at global real estate services giant, Cushman & Wakefield, Victoria Malkin oversees a $600 million business. Charged with growth planning, client care, brokerage talent development, and performance management, she carries a hefty responsibility. She’s more than up to the challenge, having built a strong foundation that prepared her for leadership. Malkin

When Anna Chadwick Gardner was a young professional living in New York in the late 1990s, she knew she had a story to tell. “I graduated from Tulane with a degree in finance, and the job market was booming,” says Gardner, who now lives in Winnetka with her husband and three children. “There were so

From 2015 to 2021, the figurative hole in Ashlee LeCompte Lazic’s heart grew larger with each year. A horse had been the comforting constant for the Barrington Hills native, beginning with her first pony, Bonnie, and later with Trixie, an off the track thoroughbred mare who lived to 31 and had joined Lazic at Michigan’s

Meet Donovan Laux, a rising star in the world of fashion design. Hailing from Hinsdale and navigating her way as the youngest among seven siblings, this burgeoning designer is currently a senior at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and making her mark. Over this past summer, Laux elevated her design prowess to

Longtime Lake Forest resident Bob Crawford is downright engaging for a reason. Make that, 17 reasons. That was the number of times he and his family moved before he graduated from Central High School in Philadelphia. Seventeen. And he was a minority—a white lad attending predominantly Black and Hispanic schools—at many of his academic stops.