When Cynthia La Schiazza smiles, she could be wearing a baggy sweatshirt and she’d still look like one of the best dressed women in Chicago. Her sense of style and her enthusiasm flow from her heart. Whether talking about her home state of Indiana, or the many cities where she, her husband and two children […]
When Ellen Stirling’s grandmother returned to Lake Forest in 1922 after traveling through Europe with her husband, she was told by her husband—if you can imagine it—that her closets were much too full. So, she started what is now the 88-year-old Lake Forest Shop. “She was looking ahead,” Ellen says of her grandmother, who originally […]
Althea Walton is a busy lady. She’s the Finance Director for the ACLU of Illinois and an active supporter of many causes. With her son, Brian Stevenson, she founded e-scapeNOW.org, a not-for-profit dedicated to countering 21st century addictions, such as the Internet, videogames and Facebook. It works primarily with students in middle school through college. […]
