"Traveling around the country gave her new perspective and a break from her everyday life of running a restaurant, which she emphasized was a 24-hour job that required her to not only create a menu, but to do the bookkeeping, run payroll and manage the staff. Regan, who grew up on a 10-acre farm in Indiana, said it helped her realize that she wanted to bring food to a table and incorporate a lifestyle element in her projects. After months of searching, Regan found the location for Milkweed Inn in in the . It’s near the and is surrounded by lush woods on multiple acres with a river running through it."
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Iliana Regan
(born in 1979) is a chef, , and memoir author. She owned and ran the Chicago restaurant until 2020 when she left Chicago to run the Milkweed Inn bed and breakfast in the . Her 2019 memoir Burn the Place was longlisted for the .
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