Since graduating from Northwestern University in 2007, Ryan Birkhauser has devoted his career to wealth management and helping people plan for their futures. But he also balances his current responsibilities…
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English Renaissance
Sarah Shelley had the kind of English childhood American anglophiles only dream of. Growing up in Shropshire, a sparsely populated county about two hours north of London on the border…
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Telling Stories
There is an anecdote about Lake Forest author Rebecca Makkai’s first body of work. It wasn’t a Booklist “Top Ten Debut” that has been translated into eight languages, like her…
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One Last Thing
Mitch Engel says that he and his wife moved to Lake Forest in 1988 and truly enjoyed raising their family here. After running a major ad agency and then a…
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Ode To Ragdale
“Small, but adequate.” That’s what the Latin inscription on the chimney at Michaele Ann and Patrick McDonnell’s Sheridan Road home means. But one glance and you assess a few things…
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A Sort Of Homecoming
Anyone who has visited the west coast of Ireland might relate to the qualities that made Irish transplants Sean and Claire Treacy fall in love with Lake Forest. Those famous…
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Turn up The Volumes
When Lake Forest resident Rebecca Asfour decided to renovate and relaunch her popular cycle studio at The Dailey Method in Lake Forest, she wanted to tie it to a philanthropic…
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Bewitched
When Alison Aldrich and her husband John Varones accepted an invitation from Jeanna and John Park to join them for The Ragdale Foundation’s “A Novel Affair” event five years ago,…
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The Buzz: October 2017
Read with Ragdale A Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up to the beach and a diary of a 16-year-old Japanese girl tucked inside set the scene for Ruth Ozeki’s latest novel,…
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Shaw of Lake Forest
Bill Redfield can still remember the first time he saw the old Hugh McBirney estate in Lake Forest. It was 1974 and he and his wife, Lyn Redfield, had been…
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