Jodie Jacobs

Quick evolution: Attention, drivers on Illinois Highway 22 who have been wondering about the earth-moving equipment you have seen in the fields just east of Waukegan Road. What you have...

Hey, couch potatoes: Bob Kopach, a Grayslake marketing executive who equates channel surfing with exercise, has devised what is arguably your ultimate comeback to fitness freaks. Called the Couch Potato...

She knows kids: After more than two decades of making a day at Ravinia Festival special to thousands of youngsters, 73-year-old Ella Jenkins had her special day at the Highland...

On the cheap: A note to Mort and Sylvia Drescher, the gourmand restaurant "critics" from Florida on the "Rosie O'Donnell" talk show who gobbled up Chicago's food but complained about...

A love yarn: Watching babies leave Victory Memorial Hospital spurred volunteer Ann Schenck to action. "I see so many babies going home dressed so cute and others with nothing," said...

An Olympian for the pool: Four years ago, Lake Forest High School built an Olympic-size swimming pool. This year it is getting an Olympian. Lea Loveless, whose backstroke helped snag...

No poetic license: When is reading a book of poems akin to strolling through gardens and woods with a flora-and-fauna expert as guide? How about when the poet was formerly...

All in the family: So they're not the Barrymores or even the Fondas, but the Lynns--pop John W., sons Jon L. and Jeff, and Jon's wife, Paddy--are Mundelein's first family...

A storybook wedding: The attendants at the recent wedding of Lake Villa bride Paandrea Odle and Keith Paisley of Spring Grove were literally a cast of characters. Down the aisle...

Weather cycles: The weather may not have shown it, but Sunday motorists along U.S. Highway 41 in Highland Park know it's spring. Once again traffic slows as drivers gape at...