With its quaint shopping district, elegant lakefront homes, and small-town traditions, Winnetka is often described by residents as a real-life Mayberry—an idyllic, 150-year-old village seemingly frozen in time and impervious…
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More than 50 years ago, a young, unwed pregnant woman needed help—to see her pregnancy through and to make the difficult decision to give her baby girl up for adoption….
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Ella Joy Won can’t stop laughing in the video. Eight years old at the time and playing Heads Up!—the game that Ellen DeGeneres plays on her TV show—Ella Joy had…
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Lake Forest filmmaker and producer Diane Quon is one of the North Shore’s hometown heroes. We’ve written about her Academy Award-nominated documentary, Minding the Gap, in The North Shore Weekend…
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The beautiful Knollwood Country Club in Lake Forest was bursting with holiday merriment during the Lake Forest Woman’s Club annual holiday luncheon, A Christmas in England. Guests enjoyed an exciting…
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It’s been 12 years since the watering hole Little Nick’s closed on Rockland Road in Lake Bluff to make way for a shiny new drive-through Walgreen’s. Owned and operated for…
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Jacque Rogers rapped a pair of inflatable thundersticks repeatedly against a portion of the glass at one end of Lake Forest College’s ice arena last month. Many of Rogers’ LFC…
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