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Category: Featured
By Judy Sutton Taylor 10 expert tips for stress-free holiday entertaining, whether you’re hosting a cookie swap, cocktails, dinner, or an all-out soiree 1. Plan ahead to get your house in tiptop shape If you’re thinking of hiring a preparty cleaning service, schedule a month ahead for coveted time slots like Fridays, suggests Kimberly Monesinos,… Read more »
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Category: Best Of Naperville
From beloved spots to shop and treasured tapas to Top-choice contractors and chiropractors, we’ve collected and counted all your faves in 50 retail and service categories. These businesses have earned our readers’ loyalty and votes—with more than 11,000 cast in all. Illustrations by Greg Clarke SHOPPING AND RETAIL Women’s Boutique WINNER Karisma Boutique FINALISTS… Read more »
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Congrats to the 2022 Best of Naperville finalists (listed here in alphabetical order) who have been nominated by our readers as the top three in the city in 50 categories. Winners will be announced in the September issue. Shopping and Retail Women’s Boutique Chico’s Glam & Glitz Boutique Karisma Boutique Men’s Store Dean’s Clothing Men’s Wearhouse Nike… Read more »
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Category: Ask the Expert
After Cindy Shanholtz left Wall Street to have a family, she opened Effortless Events (effortless-events.com)and recently launched the vintage mobile Bellissimo Bar. With celebration season upon us, we asked Shanholtz how to make gatherings memorable: Be your own guest. Hire a caterer—or at least a bartender and server—to handle prep, service, and cleanup so you… Read more »
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Category: Better Together
Though Veronica Stonis, 50, and Sean Weber, 53, met 11 years ago while working in the software industry, it was their shared love for music that drew them together. They’ve attended hundreds of concerts together and Weber even proposed at BottleRock music fest in Napa Valley in 2017 in front of their favorite band, Foo… Read more »
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Category: Discover
Leave your lash and brow grooming to these three local pros Femme Esthetics WHEATON After graduating from Metea Valley High School, Eunice Liptak attended Universal Spa Training Academy, thinking she’d become a makeup artist. Instead, she ended up falling in love with waxing as well as lash and brow services. For her capstone project, she… Read more »
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Category: Better Together
A chance meeting led to true love for this Naperville couple Downtown Naperville is a meeting place for many, and for Briana Flagg, 28, and Chris Howard, 33, it’s where their love story began in 2016. A graduate of Rosary High School in Aurora, Flagg was then attending Siena College in upstate New York and… Read more »
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Category: Better Together
On their first date, Kristine Strouse and Christopher King had effortless conversation from the start. But it was their second date at Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant in Naperville that cemented their connection. “After dinner we just stayed talking for another two or three hours,” says King, 31, an account executive with DocuSign in Chicago…. Read more »
