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IT’S A VIBE

Lake Forest’s Lillie Alexander Boutique creates a personal connection with its customers that keep them coming back. WHEN LAUREN PETERS BRINGS a new employee on to the Lillie Alexander team, she hands them a copy of the “Vibe Guide” that she wrote for the boutique when she took it over last fall. “It’s all about

NOTHING BITTY ABOUT THIS BALM

Frustrated with the lack of clean and simple beauty products available on the market, Maggie Schmieder took ingredients into her own hands and made Bitty Balm. “I’M NOT A PROBLEM SOLVER,” Maggie Schmieder says. “I’m a solution ﬁnder.” Never was a truer statement said by Schmieder of herself—a Jane of All Trades, full-time special education

S’MORES AND MORE

Lake Forest Open Lands Association’s popular Cattails & Cocktails event supports its ongoing preservation programs. WALKING THROUGH THE Mellody Farm Nature Preserve on a bright spring morning, Tyler Lisenby stops to point: “This is where the tent will be,” he says, with a gesture to his right. Just steps behind, Heidi Clifton nods in agreement,

AND THE READERS ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER

Barrington’s Katie Shober inspires a love of reading through her wildly popular Instagram account Beach Reads & Bubbly. When Barrington’s Katie Shober was a little girl, she loved to go to the library with her mom. “It was the greatest thing,” she recalls with her signature sparkle. “I remember thinking I was so rich. I

STITCH BY STITCH

Barrington native Jenny Welsh shares her love of needlepoint. A passion for something can come on suddenly, full-blown. At other times, it creeps up on us, and we may not even realize it until someone says, “Wow, you really like that, don’t you?” Sometimes, the thing we love entered our life at one point, retreated,

STUDENTS TEACHING—AND WARNING!—STUDENTS

Concerned Barrington High School students form the Josh Burks Foundation High School Council, hoping to do all they can to raise critical awareness about the dangers of fentanyl poisoning while honoring the life of a vibrant BHS graduate who died at the age of 20 after taking a counterfeit pill laced with the synthetic opioid.

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