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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by Monica Kass Rogers •
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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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by Brian Justice •
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Steve McQueen had his Mustang, Burt Reynolds his Trans Am, and Bond is back with his Aston Martin. And in his own way Lake Forrest Ferrari dealer Rick Mancuso has…
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Marian Phelps Pawlick, sitting in her magnificent Lake Bluff home near Crab Tree Farm on an August afternoon, glances at a list of past Local Legends honorees. It had been…
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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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Mattison Boveri of Lake Bluff likes to joke that she was reborn in Thailand. “I was a baby at 17 years old,” she says, explaining how during her recent youth…
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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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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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Lake Forest resident Steve Foley, Sr., known for his eponymous car dealership in Northbrook, passed away on Friday, March 23. But there was so much more to this kind and…
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Owen Schuler has very blue eyes and such a direct, clear gaze, it’s tempting to imagine he can see right through the bright orange deck of SLAM playing cards I…
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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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