One morning Lake Forest’s Cassie Mancuso Carver was sitting in bed, getting ready to start her day. With her iPhone in hand, two young girls milling around, and her responsibilities…
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Coming Up Roses
Saying Goodbye
It wasn’t an announcement that Woodlands Academy students or faculty wanted to hear. But after 47 years, Principal Madonna Lee Edmunds announced this spring that this school year would be…
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Balancing in Heels
When Kristin Cavallari was a junior at Laguna Beach High School—having moved to California after spending her junior high and freshman years living in Barrington—a scouting team from MTV came…
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Home Away from Home
The Springs of Vernon Hills is a beautiful, brand new, warm, and inviting 70-bed community that specializes in memory and respite care for seniors. Located not far from Hawthorn Shopping…
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The Stage is Set
Standing in the hallway just outside her office at Gorton Community Center, Brenda Dick—its current executive director—sets her gaze on the beautiful entrance to the John & Nancy Hughes Theater,…
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At the Heart of this Home
When a young couple decided to set down roots for their family in the wife’s hometown of Lake Forest, they were thrilled to find 875 E. Ringwood, new construction on the…
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The Lillard Legacy
As Lake Forest Open Lands prepares for its 28th annual Bagpipes & Bonfire celebration on September 27, one of its long-standing supporting families—the Lillards of Lake Forest—share why this organization’s prosperity is so important to them and to the future of our community.
Lights, Camera, Action…
As Gorton Community Center prepares to open the doors to its new state-of-the-art theater, lead donor Nancy Hughes weighs in on the place that pays tribute to her late husband.
Local Legend: Bill Kurtis
Once the interviewer, now the interviewee—newsman and entrepreneur Bill Kurtis will field questions from his long-time partner Donna La Pietra at the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society’s signature Local Legends event on November 8.
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