Jodie Jacobs

Hail to the Chief's wife: Although Mary ann (Wambach) Pillman of Lake Forest graduated from Maine South High School, she will be traveling 700 miles to attend her 30th class...

Presidential surprise: Lake Forest Country Day School assistant administrator Bob Bullard faces a major challenge when he takes the private school's 9th-grade graduating class on its annual trip to Washington,...

A graceful adieu: Loved by her students, admired by her colleagues, popular Lake Forest College professor Rosemary E. Cowler is saying a fond goodbye to the English department at age...

Hollywood refugee: A neighborly hello would be just fine if you see lanky actor Daniel J. Travanti strolling around Lake Forest's Market Square. But don't even think of mentioning Travanti's...

Health meat: One of the latest novelties to hit the North Shore is ostrich, as in filet of. Usually found in European restaurants and markets, ostrich meat is still considered...

Taking the bait: Travel ads hyping mountain getaway vacations often portray a fisherman, as in macho male, casting into a stream, but if the response to an upcoming fly-casting seminar...

You name it: Though there aren't many fields around in Deerfield, happy animal lovers and complaining gardeners will tell you there certainly are deer. Lake Forest residents point with pride...

Immortality for sale: You don't have to donate your collection of French Impressionists or even your 1950 movie posters to have a gallery bearing your name. For $25,000, the Suburban...

A touchy name: Chicago's Hubbard Street Grill does it. So does Geneva's 302 West. The address-in-the-name gambit is common among restaurants and appealed to chef Don Yamauchi, who left the...

A shoe stopper: Retail windows bearing sale signs after the holidays are as rampant as weeds in July. But this year, the 50 percent-off signs plastering the windows of the...