By Whitley Pleas Each year, on the day after Thanksgiving, Kim Placentino’s front yard transforms into a Christmas wonderland. A...

By Rebecca Foster-Goodman Pop-up shops are a festive way to shop for the holidays, and Lake Forest Station takes that experience one...

By Rebecca Foster-Goodman There is a certain excitement when you walk into a Business Entrepreneurship class at Lake Forest High School. ...

By Whitley Pleas Lake Forest residents believe it is one of the best places in Illinois – if not the country – to raise a family. With...

By Whitley Pleas In Lake Forest, small business owners survived both the COVID-19 pandemic’s height in 2020 and labor shortages and...

By David A. F. Sweet Journeys into space have made headlines recently. But what about those who, instead of being flung into the...

By Adrienne Fawcett The Friday before Thanksgiving, volunteers of The Church of the Holy Spirit food pantry joyfully gave away 100 frozen...

By Kim Piekos The boxes labeled Operation Warm overflow with colorful, two-toned parkas, sized for children big and small, as three men...

The Lake Forest Tree Lighting Ceremony drew thousands to Market Square for a joyful time on the day after Thanksgiving. The tradition --...

By Whitley Pleas Having grown up on a farm in Central Illinois where her family has lived for generations, agriculture is in Laura...

By Whitley Pleas Even as the pandemic brought unprecedented change in 2020, Gorton Community Center Executive Director Amy Wagliardo...

By Kim Piekos Come into the Reading Power room at the Green Bay Early Childhood Center in North Chicago, where colorful board books line...

By Adrienne Fawcett Since Lake Forest launched its Rethink Recycling program in the spring of 2020, campaign spokes-mascot Bart the Cart...

By David A. F. Sweet Since the Lake Forest Tree Lighting Ceremony dawned in 1987, Tim Haskett has been involved in each one. Back then,...

By Saige Joseph Shakespeare is difficult for adults to perform, let alone teenagers, but Lake Forest High School freshmen and sophomores...

By Vivian Hirschfield Happy fall! Today, in my Lake Forest High School journalism class, my teacher Mr. Leyden talked about...

By David A. F. Sweet After a comfortable morning in the television studio, WGN anchor Larry Potash wasn’t expecting to soon be sitting...

By Rick Day Tucked into the back corner of the courtyard at 950 N. Western Ave., there sits a nondescript storefront which at first...

By Rebecca Foster-Goodman Lake Forest High School Varsity Football Coach Chuck Spagnoli has been the driving force behind the team for...

By Rebecca Foster-Goodman As the days get shorter and frost covers the grass, soccer fields -- filled recently with enthusiastic...

By Vivian Hirschfield Hello readers! I’m back for a third week. Writing these pieces has started to feel like a routine. When I realized...

By Whitley Pleas For the past six years, Ryan Davis experienced a coaching partnership like no other: his father, Ken Davis, served as...

Costumes did the trick on Halloween, as Lake Foresters gathered candy on a brisk fall day.

By David A. F. Sweet What happens when former Chicago Bears quarterback Bobby Douglass shows up to your playoff tailgate party? Lake...