Jodie Jacobs

Traffic-stopper: Public displays of the works of Lake Forest watercolorist Mark McMahon are common. His tiled murals adorn walls from the American Airlines terminal at O'Hare International Airport and a...

Time to leave: The First Couple of Lake Forest Country Day School will need a lot of guest bedrooms at their new house in South Carolina, judging from the number...

Deerfield's famous kissing restrictions involving a couple of signs that tell commuters where they can kiss when dropped off at the METRA train station on Deerfield Road are making news...

Taste of history: Some organizations celebrate anniversaries with one large cake. But when the North Shore chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women turned 50 recently, there were about...

With Iraq and the scandal-plagued White House grabbing most of the political attention, it is understandable that people might forget that important politics are happening at the grass-roots level, with...

A big man: North suburban sculptor Erik Blome knew that a commission he received late last spring from the YWCA of Greater Milwaukee was monumental. He was asked to do...

Farewell to a friend: Just a note to the legion of customers of Taper Cut, a Lake Forest barber shop. The shop's owner, longtime Lake Forest barber Jay Lundeen, died...

The Centre Club, a health and fitness center operated by Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, has been offering a service usually associated with hotels and exclusive apartment complexes: a concierge...

Not just for kids: The idea that college costs are tough on more than just graduating high school seniors has been embraced by the Lake Forest Woman's Club, a 400-member...

Kids at Carnegie Hall: Choral and orchestra students from Highland Park and Deerfield High School District 113 are marking off the days to Thursday. The day off from school to...