Take Heart, Gorton Patrons
Gorton Community Center’s welcoming mission might need to expand later this year. As it reads, today: “The gathering place in the heart of our community [Lake Forest], where people connect,…
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by Bill McLean •
Gorton Community Center’s welcoming mission might need to expand later this year. As it reads, today: “The gathering place in the heart of our community [Lake Forest], where people connect,…
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by Mitch Hurst •
Perhaps the only members of our community who can truly relate to the events of the last few weeks in the midst of this COVID-19 pandemic are those who lived…
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by Debbie Lee •
The Reverend Jihan Murray-Smith is a city girl at heart. Outside of her college years, she is proud to be a born and bred Chicagoan—she even jokes that as a…
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by Monica Kass Rogers •
It’s a busy day for Trevor Barry. Bundled in a coat and hat, with a wicker basket close at hand, he reaches into cozy nesting boxes where five fat hens…
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by Bill McLean •
Barb LaFasto played competitive basketball from eighth grade until the age of 31. Defense was her specialty, her strength. Shutting down, and utterly frustrating, the opposition’s top scorer thrilled her….
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by Bill McLean •
What does confidence look like? Jack Malloy, shooting a basketball while sporting a blank expression. The Lake Forest High School junior guardforward isn’t arrogant, isn’t disinterested, isn’t passionless atop hardwood….
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by Debbie Lee •
In 2016, Ally Page, a student at Lake Forest High School (LFHS), was on vacation with her family in Mexico when she was exposed to dangerous E. coli bacteria from…
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by Debbie Lee •
In April 2018, Veronia Lilja Brugioni was on a flight home from her wedding in Playa Mujeres, Mexico, when she turned to her husband Matt. Now that the couple was…
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by Debbie Lee •
It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and while the magic of the internet gives us year-round access to cookie-themed swag (Samoa keychain, anyone?), those with a sweet tooth must rely on…
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by Bill McLean •
Lake Forest High School’s varsity dance team frightened its head coach, Alexis Linton, in the middle of its final-round performance earlier this month at the Universal Dance Association’s National Dance…
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