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Trendsetter Kristen Noel Crawley has always had her eye on the latest beauty trends and, in her early 20s, the North Shore-based maven started sharing her favorite finds on social media. Crawley slowly began to garner a loyal following on Instagram—today nearly 500,000 strong—and later caught the attention of ELLE magazine, which offered Crawley her

In 1970, two years before his son Mark won seven gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Munich, Arnold Spitz told Sports Illustrated, “Swimming isn’t everything, winning is.” Of course, winning is when you’re pitting your ability against the bodies shooting through the water next to you. But sometimes, the competition isn’t another athlete, it’s

“This is our flagship event and we’d like everyone to have the chance to come and experience it,” says Lake Forest’s Marie Woods, president of The Associate Board of the Lake Forest Open Lands Association (LFOLA), of their annual fundraiser, Cattails & Cocktails. “We have so much fun planning it—it doesn’t even really feel like

The village of Hinsdale is celebrating 150 years and what better way to continue the festivities than with the annual Kitchen Walk hosted by the Hinsdale Historical Society’s Women’s Board? A tradition in its own right, Kitchen Walk is in its 18th year and is bringing in new elements to mark this special anniversary. The

Meeting jewelry designer Joie DiGiovanni for the first time, you wouldn’t know that behind her loveliness and poise is a list of ongoing health issues, the result of a serious car accident that happened just after she graduated from Villanova University. “I went from being an extremely healthy 21-year-old to having every sort of autoimmune

Lake Forest High School student-athletes Lainey O’Neil and Isabelle Chong, separated by the length of a tennis racket, sit at a table in Lake Bluff on a spring day, recalling some of the activities they had dabbled in as kiddos. Chong, shy and polite, swam and played the violin, flute, and piano, not all at