Moving Mountains
One of Zuzanna Janusz’s shoes was untied in music class one day. Janusz was 11. The concerned teacher at Holy Cross School in Deerfield practically ordered Janusz—a highly competitive COHO…
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by Bill McLean •
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One of Zuzanna Janusz’s shoes was untied in music class one day. Janusz was 11. The concerned teacher at Holy Cross School in Deerfield practically ordered Janusz—a highly competitive COHO…
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by Elaine Doremus •
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She was just 14, and he was 18, when they met and began a love story that might have ended when legendary dancer and actor Patrick Swayze died at age…
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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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by Bill McLean •
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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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by Ann Marie Scheidler •
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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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by Karina Kavanagh •
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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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by Elaine Doremus •
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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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by Sherry Thomas •
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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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by Ann Marie Scheidler •
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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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