The British have come: If you thought…

The British have come: If you thought you heard British accents around Lake County recently, particularly at the campuses of the Lake Forest School of Management, Lake Forest College and Trinity International College, rest assured it is not an overactive imagination.

A delegation from the Borough of Warrington in England was in town recently to encourage college student and teacher exchanges and to lay the groundwork for business and tourism between the borough and the county.

Maybe these exchanges will help deflate the longstanding bad rap that the Chicago area conjures up to some Europeans. When asked during a breakfast reception at Trinity College about their impressions of the area, no one dropped the name of Al Capone.