Sunday Breakfast: Susan Kelsey
Susan Kelsey got lost as a youngster. Often. But she loved every second of the feeling that accompanied the condition. A Lake Forest resident since 2006, Kelsey blames riveting books…
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Lake Forest & Lake Bluff
Telling Tales
There is the story, and there is the telling. The jumble of wordplay, timing, whimsy, and daring that comes together to make a great story always transcends, leaving the listener…
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Clean and Green
The morning sun coming through the windows at Forest Greens Juice Bar in Lake Bluff splashes little pools of light on the café tables, illuminating the rainbow-hued array of cold-pressed…
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Giving the Gift of Reading
When they were young girls growing up in Lake Forest, Cecelia Gottman would tease Lauren Fairchild for burying her nose in books. “As a kid, I wasn’t as interested in…
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It All Adds Up
That mad-about-basketball math department at Lake Forest was “sum”thing else last winter. A good chunk of its faculty members—about half, according to math teacher Kyle Wilhelm — showed up faithfully…
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Gatsby Revival
In a letter that F. Scott Fitzgerald sent to his daughter in 1940, the author famously wrote, “Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the…
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Homes for the Holidays
Like the classic holiday ballet, The Nutcracker, which transports viewers through a sequence of fantasy worlds, the Lake Bluff History Museum’s Christmas Home Tour takes visitors all over the architectural…
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If the Shoe Fits
When sisters Cristina and Cara Garrison invited their father to breakfast at Highland Park’s Country Kitchen more than 20 years ago to discuss taking over running his Forest Bootery store,…
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Cornerstones
Leo Scheidler, in one swift motion, swept a patch of the home football turf with his right hand. The Lake Forest High School sophomore cornerback executed the move moments before…
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Tea for You
For the Guild of St. Mary, it’s all about tradition when it comes to the holidays and its annual Christmas Tea is one of its most special. Co-chairs Nicole Elliott…
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