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Fantastic news for Chicago’s North Shore: the new, bimonthly magazine Quintessential New Trier debuts this September. Led by the former editor in chief of Northshore Magazine, Sherry Thomas says in a letter to readers on the new web site, “[Quintessential New Trier] is designed to be your magazine, the one that tells stories about your neighbors, your schools, your lakefront, your institutions and all those things you value about this place you call home.”The publication will cover an area of 56,000 residents within the villages of Winnetka, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Glencoe and portions of Glenview and Northfield. Quintessential New Trier will be available on the newsstands, but hasn’t yet been priced. Thomas says on the web site that she looks forward to friends, readers and members of the New Trier community joining her on this exciting new voyage. We couldn’t agree more and we look forward to reading the first issue.Click here to get more details on the launch of Quintessential New Trier on Crain’s Chicago Business web site.Click here to visit the Quintessential New Trier web site.

Robert Milani (center), Chalet senior landscape architect, accepts the PLANET (Professional Landcare Network) Judges Award from Dave Snodgrass (left), PLANET president-elect, and Bill Hildebolt, current PLANET president. Photo credit: Philippe Nobile Photography

Chalet’s Landscape Division has received the highly coveted Judges award from PLANET (Professional Landcare Network) for its residential design/construction of a home in Lake Forest, Ill. Chalet also garnered a Grand Award for the same home, as well as a Merit Environmental Improvement Award for its residential landscape design/construction of a home in Wilmette, Ill. Chalet was recognized as the sole winner of the top award for residential/design construction at PLANET’s Awards Reception on Friday, Oct. 30 at the Green Industry Conference in Louisville, Ky. The global Environmental Improvement Awards Program, which is open to only PLANET members, reflects the association’s commitment to creating and preserving the beauty of the landscape. The annual program is designed to reward independent landscape, lawn care and interior plantscaping professionals who execute superior projects.

Lake Forest Residence

Chalet’s Judges and Grand awards winner in Lake Forest is a formal, structured and manicured landscape reflecting the beauty, elegance and permanence of a period Italianesque villa. Beyond the front entryway, garden visitors are greeted by a three-tiered, limestone fountain surrounded by a large semicircular pergola with hand-carved limestone columns and a sunken garden.

Wilmette Residence

Chalet’s Merit Award winner is a stately English Tudor in Wilmette, complemented by a formal, manicured and symmetrical garden. Dense yew and Green Velvet boxwood hedges line the front foundation and are meticulously trimmed while ‘Tina’ crabapples flank the front entry, left natural to contrast with the structured landscape. As visitors travel down a bluestone walk from the brick driveway to the pool area, a diverse and colorful array of Daphne, rhododendron, viburnum and astilbe catch the eye.

For information on the PLANET Awards, visit www.landcarenetwork.org.