Jodie Jacobs

CenterStage, Lake Forest's longtime community theater group, opened its two-weekend run of Bernard Slade's "Romantic Comedy" at Gorton Community Center in Lake Forest last weekend. But to the 300-plus people...

About 60 Lake Forest Symphony Guild members and guests plunked down $30 each last weekend to breakfast on banana nut bread and mimosas at Saks Fifth Avenue's Old Orchard store...

The Private Eye Lounge of the Hyatt Deerfield rocked last weekend. Fred and Barney, Batman and princesses discoed to "Monster Mash." Witches, clowns and other-world creatures snake-danced around the food...

One for the pups: Good news for animal lovers who have followed the financial woes of Save-A-Pet, an overcrowded Palatine-based dog and cat shelter. For five years, Save-A-Pet has planned...

One for the pups: Good news for animal lovers who have followed the financial woes of Save-A-Pet, an overcrowded Palatine-based dog and cat shelter. For five years, Save-A-Pet has planned...

Attention, Antioch shoppers: The old Williams Bros. building, a vacant, dilapidated 19th Century brick structure marred by characterless mid-20th Century facelifts, is being transformed from eyesore to centerpiece in downtown...

A real pro: Winter Olympics medalist Ken Henry, who brought home the gold in the men's 500-meter speedskating competition in 1952 and a bronze in the same event in 1948,...

With vintage Willie Nelson on stage, it could have been Nashville, but the crowd whoopin' and hollerin' to "Always on My Mind" and "On the Road Again" were about 800...

Nearly 2,000 people wished the College of Lake County a fond "Happy 25th Anniversary" last weekend at the school's first alumni reunion and picnic. For many, the anniversary bash was...

Gluttony, not golf, reigned supreme at Wadsworth's Midlane Country Club when Victory Memorial Hospital held its 14th Annual Chef Cuisine Benefit there last weekend. Near the entrance, award-winning sugar artist...