Live Like Gatsby
In a letter that F. Scott Fitzgerald sent to his daughter in 1940, the author famously wrote, “Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the…
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AROUND FOREST AND BLUFF
Pearls of Compassion
More than 50 years ago, a young, unwed pregnant woman needed help—to see her pregnancy through and to make the difficult decision to give her baby girl up for adoption….
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Engendering Respect
Zoe Crecos enters the room. She sees boys everywhere, more than two dozen. She also sees a male coach here, a male coach there. Not one other girl in sight….
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In Memorium
Barry Joseph Carroll, 74, of Lake Forest, and East Chop, Martha’s Vineyard, passed away peacefully on Sunday, December 23, 2018, after a brief illness. Born on January 22, 1944, in…
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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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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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Members Only
When Katherine Templin moved to Lake Forest from Chicago a few winters ago, the train commute downtown and back in the dark became a bleak part of her day. Then,…
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Coastal Living
If you can dream it, you can make it happen. This is the life philosophy Victoria Lidstrom lives and works by. The Lake Bluff resident and interior designer/architect isn’t interested…
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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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Hear Their Names
Boys & Girls Club of Lake County CEO Cesilie Price has been a “second mother” to a girl for nearly a decade. Price receives a “Happy Mother’s Day!” text message…
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