Finance + Legal Services

Sarah Reusché: Rooted in Community

Civil Litigator, Community Advocate & Quiet Force for Good Article by Cat Rolfes On paper, Sarah Reusché is everything you’d expect of a rising civil litigator: sharp, articulate, relentlessly prepared. In person, what surfaces first isn’t intensity but empathy. “The best way to be a professional is by being a person first,” she says. “You get to know people, you build trust, and everything flows from there.” At Lavelle Law, Reusché practices civil and commercial litigation and works within...

Arts + Culture

Enemy in Your Pocket

Lit & Local: Indie and local books that are bound to inspire. Article and Photography by Cat Rolfes On one of the coldest afternoons in December, Chicago native Jackson Antonow stood in the wind, hands tucked into his coat pockets, talking about the book he never planned to write. “ Enemy in Your Pocket: How Using Your Phone Less Will Change Your Life and How to Do It,” currently for sale on Amazon, did not begin with a revelation or a manifesto. It began with a feeling he could no longer...

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Unplugged by Design

An Evanston father-son watch brand built for calm, not notifications Article and Photography by Cat Rolfes In an age when time vibrates, buzzes, and lights up our wrists, Matt and Rohan Kuttan are betting on something quietly radical: stillness. Their Evanston-based watch brand, MADHU, launched October 1, isn’t trying to outsmart your phone. It’s trying to help you put it down. Sleek, automatic, and entirely analog, the MADHU watch is powered not by batteries or Bluetooth, but by movement...

Arts + Culture

Everything Is Possible

How artist Emmett Kyoshi Wilson is redefining ability through abstraction, generosity and joy Article by Cat Rolfes | Photography by Stephanie Bassos, David Spingola & Daniel Klutznick The first thing you notice when you step into Emmett Kyoshi Wilson’s house is not the art itself, but the way it has claimed the place. It spreads. Paintings cover walls, lean in stacks, rest against door frames. The Glenview ranch house where Emmett lives with his parents feels less like a home displaying art...