Iliana Regan is a Michelin-starred chef and restaurateur in the Hiawatha National Forest, owner of The Milkweed Inn in Wetmore, Michigan. She received one Michelin star for each year she owned and operated Elizabeth Restaurant in Chicago, Illinois from 2012-2020. Early life and education, Regan was born (1979) in Merrillville, Indiana. Her mother was a scratch cook and her steelworker father was a gardener. She and her three older sisters grew up on a 10-acre farm. She studied chemistry at Indiana University Bloomington before earning a degree in Creative writing at Columbia College Chicago. In the spring of 2022 she earned her MFAW from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Career She worked as a waitress and as a cook in several fine-dining restaurants in Chicago, including at Trio, Schwa, and Alinea under Grant Achatz and Michael Carlson. In 2008, Regan began selling microgreens and vegetables at farmer's markets, soon expanding her offerings to include Pierogi. In 2010, she started a weekly supper club hosting 10-12 diners in her Chicago apartment. Through the supper club, Regan met several investors interested in supporting her opening her own restaurant. Regan named her restaurant Elizabeth for her deceased sister, opening in Chicago's Lincoln Square in 2012. Elizabeth features home-grown and foraged ingredients, originally served multi-course prix fixe menus at three 8-seat communal tables in the style of Regan's supper club. She later condensed the menu and removed the communal tables. The restaurant was immediately well-received, earning a Michelin star in its second year. Regan opened a second restaurant in 2017, Kitsune, with Japanese influences. It closed in 2019. In July 2020 she passed on Elizabeth to her employees. She is no longer the owner of Elizabeth Restaurant. The new owners are Tim Lacey and Ian Jones is the chef. They have continued to hold the Michelin star status of the restaurant still using locally sourced products. She and her wife, Anna, opened The Milkweed Inn, in Nahma Township in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, in 2019. The Milkweed Inn hosts 10 guests each weekend April through October at $750 to $1750 per person for a "new gatherer" culinary experience. Accommodations include three rooms inside the inn, a platform tent and a small Airstream trailer. A 2019 weekend "starts with pierogi and smoked lake trout on Friday and peaks on Saturday with a 15-course dinner that might include wild blueberries in juiced wood sorrel,