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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.

Eryn Kingsley grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona and after getting her business degree at Arizona State University quickly established a successful career in the corporate world. But after 15 years she yearned to establish a more personal outlet for her passion to connect with and give back to her community. In 2021, as the pandemic

Colleen Bentley grew up going to Walt Disney World in Florida with her family. As a young teenager with very young siblings, she loved planning her family’s trips to make sure everyone enjoyed the experience. She would make—and FedEx would print— little itinerary books that mapped out each day. Which parks they would visit, which