SWEET, TART, EARTHY AND RICH, this beautiful celebratory Persian dish originated thousands of years ago in the Iranian province of Gilan on the Caspian Sea. Today you will often see…
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Making Impressions
Sunlight streams through the broad windows of Carmela Heintzelman’s Lake Bluff design studio, Fiore Press Letterpress. Inside, Heintzelman leans over a composing stone, the perfectly smooth surface where she levels…
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Allusionism
Swirling among blooms of creative thought in the imaginative world of inventors, the question, “What if I did this?” has prompted more discovery and ingenious solutions than any other. That’s…
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Deer Path Inn Chicken Pot Pie
“Comfort food never goes out of style. Chicken Pot Pie is warm, delicious, filling, and a taste from childhood that withstands time. Especially in these times, people crave something comforting.”–Matt…
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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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It’s A Wonderful Life
It all started with a 19th century barber pole. Trent Wisehart, executive vice president of global creative services for Tommy Hilfiger, was 13, shopping at an antique mall with his…
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In Plein Air
We’ve all seen plein air artists at work, their easels pitched near lovely garden vistas, delicately painting miniature representations of the scenes at hand. But Lake Forest artist Sam Rosenthal…
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Citizen K-9
The newest member of the Lake Forest Police Department (LFPD) has big brown eyes, a winning grin, and an endearing habit of cocking his head to one side when listening…
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The Remembrance Garden
By 6:30 a.m. on a recent Tuesday, soft shafts of morning sunlight had already worked their way past the West Lake Forest Train Station, and across Telegraph Road. There, they…
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Model Citizen
If there were a board game created to map Ray Kracik’s life, his playing piece would most certainly be a 1930 Model A Ford—one with snappy, red-and-black striped upholstery. “Ha!”…
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