Hilary Decent

I don't think I'm reading too much into it when I say books can be among our most treasured possessions. When we open the cover, we may be transported anywhere...

I always find it a little odd that complete strangers will wish me a Happy Mother's Day if I happen to be out and about that day. It's not that...

Who will be the happiest mom this Mother's Day? There's no way of knowing for sure, but Cara Trahey may just take the prize. The 33-year-old has been waiting to...

As CEO and president of Naper Settlement, Macarena "Rena" Tamayo-Calabrese often has her head in the past. But when I spoke to her recently, it was to talk about her...

When the executive chef of Elements at Water Street was furloughed for five months at the start of the pandemic, he wasted no time in spicing things up a little....

Do you ever get the feeling that normality is always just out of reach? Ever since the pandemic began, I've been trying so hard to do things that feel "normal,"...

Grant Garrigues is the one member of the White Sox team who's always happy to be sitting on the sidelines. As team physician he may never hit it out of...

Throughout much of the pandemic, every time I've driven past the driver's license facility I've shuddered a little, knowing what was to come. Just when I thought the simple and...