Jodie Jacobs

Making waves: A question going around Highland Park is whether wine is more important than water. The water in question is that which could eventually refill the shuttered pool at...

Irresistible television: It took a real-life story that could have been made for TV to get Buffalo Grove couple Ramamohan and Deepa Mahidhara to sign up for cable. In a...

Irresistible television: It took a real-life story that could have been made for TV to get Buffalo Grove couple Ramamohan and Deepa Mahidhara to sign up for cable television. In...

What 1,628-acre entity that supports 48,000 people and has a golf course, a couple of bowling alleys, a movie theater and a library lies north of Chicago but is not...

Rising into the air: The answer is "yes" to all those callers who have been wondering if that tall structure rising on Waukegan Road in Lake Forest across from Sunset...

Recent celebrity sightings of Bill Murray, Jerry Springer and John Cleese at the Deer Path Inn, a 60-year-old landmark Lake Forest hostelry, prompted a call to general manager Michel Lama....

Pulling strings: Grayslake tennis aficionado Mark Campanile, just back from Wimbledon, saw the tournament from a unique perspective: through the strings of top players' racquets. A top-notch player himself, Campanile...

Just deserts: Even if you think you have a great idea, it's nice when top people in your field agree, according to restaurateur Keith Pascal of Highland Park. Pascal is...

A really big shooo: It's no surprise when Chicago draws big-name entertainers, but when Tempo Lake heard that comedian Jackie Mason would be appearing at Zanies Comedy Nite Club in...

Echoes of the past: Shots were heard recently at the scene of a robbery that took place 74 years ago in Rondout. They were not ghostly echoes but very real...