These Lands Are Our Lands
When architect Howard Van Doren Shaw revealed Market Square in Lake Forest in 1916, it became a model for “shopping centers” throughout America. More than five decades later, citizens came…
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AROUND FOREST AND BLUFF
Micro Moments
When Lake Forest native Beth Ann Fennelly and her husband Tommy Franklin finished writing their first novel Tilted World in 2014, Fennelly found herself with a notebook full of musings…
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If These Walls Could Haunt
Perhaps it’s just all the history that permeates the air but artists and writers in residence at Howard Van Doren Shaw’s Ragdale estate report feeling something—a certain otherworldly energy that…
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Safety First
Five years ago, Lake Forest’s Kristin Wildman was brainstorming with Gorton Community Center’s former executive director Brenda Dick about how to keep the young children, who visited the beloved Drop-In…
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Clash of the Tartans
Get ready for Bagpipes & Bonfire with this sophisticated take on the Scottish highlands with heritage check and traditional plaids.
Unbreakable Beauty
June 9, 2015 was the sort of summer day Chicagoans dream of: Clear, sunny, and warm with the gentle lift of scented breezes to rustle leaves, carry birdsong, and flutter…
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Space Odyssey
The year was 1952. A young James A. Lovell Jr. graduated from the United States Naval Academy at 11 a.m., and then married his high school sweetheart Marilyn Gerlach at…
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A Great American Life, Remembered
Charles H. Walsh, a Lake Forest businessman who experienced a childhood in orphanages and went on to become a successful owner and partner in the Chicago Bulls and Chicago White…
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Cirque de Citadel
Close your eyes and imagine you’re back at the original Moulin Rouge—seated at a cabaret table in the midst of vibrantly dressed can-can girls and all the Belle Epoque spectacle…
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Monsoon Muse
Robert Redford and his wife, Sibylle Szaggars Redford, are bound by their passion for the environment and their work as creative performance artists. While many know Robert Redford for his…
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