Lillie Alexander’s gift guide to this season’s must-haves. Lillie Alexander is located at 197 E. Westminster Avenue in Lake Forest, 847-295-8686, lilliealexanderboutique.com.

Highland Park’s Maggie Schmieder is the visionary behind Bitty Balm, the “Makeup ON Purpose” brand dedicated to creating dye-free, healthier beauty products. Bitty Balm is formulated without parabens, phthalates, fragrances, or lake and synthetic dyes addressing a gap in the market for clean, limited-ingredient makeup. As a beauty brand founder, Schmieder’s mission is to provide

Growing up in Lake Forest, Matty Price Collins recalls “playing” at a desk in the office of Price Insurance, a business her great-grandfather founded in 1937. Today, she and brother Andrew are the fourth generation to lead the Lake Forest institution and that desk is where she works every day. “Lake Forest has a tight-knit
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