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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Sentimental Journey
Perched on a metal chair in the middle of a crowded Loyola coffee shop, famed actor playwright Ross Lehman closes his blue eyes for a second. Not to rest, but…
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Keys To The C-Suite
Shepherding students through their experience at Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart, head of school Meg Steele keeps her eye on every aspect of development. Social, emotional, intellectual, academic—the spheres…
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Glorious Grants
It’s 2:35 p.m. on a chilly Tuesday afternoon at Lake Forest High School. Twenty-four “Robotics with Physics 1” students are busily brainstorming the quarter’s challenge: Create an autonomous robot able…
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Eat + Talk = Love
It’s a rare thing to know what you want to do with your life when you are still a teen. But Lake Forest’s Tia Bagan was one of those lucky…
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Pageant Power
When the 25 or so contestants take the stage to perform various talents late this summer at the fifth annual “I Am Me” special needs pageant, the young woman in…
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