By Kim Piekos Dr. Cosmo Vivirito is a general dentist in St. Charles. While attending Lake Forest College, he interned with orthodontist...

By the History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff As model railroading soared in popularity across the country in the 1930s, Elliott...

By The History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff According to his daughter Harriet, in 1886 Julian Matthews arrived in Lake Forest “in a...

By David A. F. Sweet For the first time, the Lake Forest Police Department hired a full-time social worker in 2022 to provide counseling...

By Caroline Gerber “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.” Those are the words that Winston Churchill uttered during the darkest...

By Kim Piekos Apples don’t fall far from trees, so they say. That is certainly true of Hollywood actors and directors Andrew, Owen and...

By David A. F. Sweet Two Lake Forest High School seniors, Taylor Ross and Lucy Mulloy, have been selected to participate in the Illinois...

By Kim Piekos Lake Forest’s Elawa Farm, originally developed for the A. Watson Armour family in 1917, opened its Discovery Garden to the...

By Judith L. Pearson Twenty-five-thousand square feet. Fifty-six rooms. A 100-by-40-foot swimming pool. This is not the description of a...

By Marina Vaca Steve Sarauer is the Scouts Hockey Director and Varsity Head Coach, and Emily Savage is the president of the Lake Forest...

By David A. F. Sweet Joyce Reda, the Deputy City Clerk for the City of Lake Forest, became the “Face of Lake Forest” when she was hired...

By Kim Piekos The scene from 1998 was memorable: standing at a national park overlook in Zimbabwe, Lake Forester Kim Pfahl’s close...

By Kim Piekos Carol Digman’s business acumen antennae are always up. Her knack for tuning in to potential local business opportunities...

By Rebecca Foster-Goodman The American Legion is the nation’s largest wartime veterans service organization, with more than two million...

By Kim Piekos When Bob Crawford Jr. retired from a successful career at 76, he couldn’t picture himself living a quiet life parked at a...

By Adrienne Fawcett Hometown Coffee & Juice opened in Lake Forest in May -- and it only took three hours for the place to seem like it...

By David A. F. Sweet Lake Forest Mayor Dr. Randy Tack was born in Chicago. After high school, he attended the University of Illinois,...

By David A. F. Sweet Edgar Kelley’s life is far from that of a typical teenager. Attached to his lower back is an insulin pump complete...

By David A. F. Sweet Growing up, Paula Lillard Preschlack loved to write stories. But she was often uninspired in a conventional...

Annie Swift of Lake Forest won the Spirit of CROYA Margot Martino essay contest. She read her speech (posted below) at a meeting of the...