Ford Blooming, Stigma Wilting
The eight floral arrangements on the Ford family’s kitchen island in Lake Forest make Tom Ford stop on an August morning in 2017. The beauty had stunned Katie Ford’s husband….
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Lake Forest & Lake Bluff
Legend in Our Midst
Marian Phelps Pawlick, sitting in her magnificent Lake Bluff home near Crab Tree Farm on an August afternoon, glances at a list of past Local Legends honorees. It had been…
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Skits Dazzle
The Village of Lake Bluff event Time Travelers is no longer a thing of the past. It returned, to the present, on October 11 — with an emphasis on the…
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Alison Courtney Buck
Alison Courtney Buck, a talented and creative Lake Forest Country Day School graduate, died recently at the age of 44. The daughter of Raymond and Barbara Buck, Alison was born…
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Eugene “Gene” Frank Sikorovsky
Eugene “Gene” Frank Sikorovsky, a retired general counsel, accomplished violinist and supporter of many non-profit and community endeavors, died at his home in Lake Forest on September 30. He was…
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Mary Cashen Metcalf
Mary Cashen Metcalf (nee McKinney), of Lake Forest, a former business teacher at Lake Forest High School and business manager at elementary schools in North Chicago and Evanston, died on…
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Honoring a Local Legend
In Chicago and throughout the country, former Sara Lee Corporation CEO John H. Bryan Jr. is being remembered for an enduring legacy as a philanthropist and patron to the arts….
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Music Matters
Lake Forest’s Gorton Community Center is hosting a night of jazz and comedy to support a good cause — preserving music programs in underserved schools. On Thursday, October 18, comedians…
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Strength in Words
It has been more than a decade since Lake Forest resident Melinda Mooney first walked into Justin Hartley’s first grade class at South Elementary School in North Chicago and became…
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Postcards from the Past
Revisit Lake Bluff ’s storied history as a summer resort on Sunday, September 30, as the Lake Bluff History Museum hosts its “Camp Meetings, Chautauquas, Artists and Anarchists” docent-led walking…
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