The History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff has been home to the community’s stories for more than 45 years. And now, with their state-of-the-art technology that was unveiled last fall, the…
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Fore!
In 1922, Lake Forest’s Albert Blake Dick—who made his fortune as the largest manufacturer of mimeograph equipment—gave a parcel of his farm property to the City of Lake Forest. An…
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Hometown Hero
Retirement can be full of surprises. And as Dr. William Benge learned, some surprises may be ones that you’ll never forget. Dr. William Benge, a Harvard-trained cardiologist, recently retired from…
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Good Vibrations
To know Melissa Pas Blake is to see a ray of sunshine. Yet the Lake Forest woman’s life has been far from only bright smiles and endless rainbows. Her truth…
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Stepping Stones
If you build it, they will come. This is the mantra the Stepping Stones Network volunteers from Lake Forest’s Christ Church repeat to themselves as they work to obliterate sex…
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Your Cup Of Tea
It’s tea, for you. At least that’s what Nicole Elliott, Sarah Helfrich, and Leslie Schreiber have planned as co-chairs for the Guild of St. Mary’s third annual Christmas Tea taking…
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Cheers to 50 Years
It was just a typical late-summer, sunny day at Lake Forest’s Kiddles Sports with families coming and going, stocking up on back-to-school team uniforms and sporting goods. At least it…
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A Legacy Of Learning
It’s been more than two years since Lake Forest College broke ground on the Lillard Science Center, the 130,000-square-foot research and teaching facility offering state-of-the-art classrooms and labs and areas…
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Ghost In The Furnace
On October 29,1928, 30-year-old Elfrieda Knaak was found propped up next to a furnace in the basement of Lake Bluff Village Hall, with burns over more than half of her body. The…
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Micro Moments
When Lake Forest native Beth Ann Fennelly and her husband Tommy Franklin finished writing their first novel Tilted World in 2014, Fennelly found herself with a notebook full of musings…
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