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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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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French Twist
Outbuilding. Not a pretty word, and certainly not a place one is likely to call home—unless you and your architect can see the silk purse within the sow’s ear. Anyone…
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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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Dream Houses
As a youngster, Chris Puszynski remembers taking long drives with her father to historic communities such as Oak Park and Park Ridge, and being in awe of all the structures…
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A Spirited Tradition
In the middle of the school day when students are gathered together in their classrooms, Father Michael Nacius of the Church of St. Mary will walk down the hallways of…
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Second Chance
It was 2007, and Tony Morehouse had it all. He had the successful business and the fancy cars. He had the big boat and the massive house in Lake Forest….
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