Jodie Jacobs

There were the sounds-jingling bells, rhythmic drumbeats, low chanting. And the action-costumed dancers with their bobbing eagle-feathered dance bustles and blowing jacket fringes. And the sights-children attaching feathers to reeds...

Best seats at Ravinia: The best seat in the house for the recent sold-out Tony Bennett concert at Ravinia Festival was not fifth-row center. Try close enough to touch the...

As about 335 people reminisced and greeted old friends, Highland Park Hospital's 25th Ravinia Benefit last weekend seemed more like a reunion than a fundraiser. That's not to say money...

Carmel High School officials and alumni have devised a different answer to the age-old question of what to serve for dinner. After deciding to turn the annual class reunion dinner...

The Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe turned take-for-granted table items into a sensory adventure at the Fruit and Vegetable Festival last weekend. Hundreds of brave and curious souls took the...

Lake Forest Hospital nurses and therapists met their "patients" on the hospital lawn last weekend, offering tests and tips on how to stay out of the hospital. Billed as a...

Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was condensed to a few well-known bars. Individual bursts of shooting stars became a rushed spectacle of fireworks fury. But at least the storms held off until...

World peace: When the world called, World Cup Soccer that is, Highland Park Hospital was ready. The hospital mobilized a seven-member team of trauma and emergency surgeons and nurses to...

What's in a name? For Bruce Bertucci, co-owner of Bertucci's Restaurant Inc. in Highwood, and his partners, Mark Loeb of Libertyville and Bill Bodnarchuk of Arlington Heights, the answer comes...

The townfolk gathered in Lake Bluff's Artesian Park for a bit of down-home fun at Lake Bluff's Union Church three-day "Taste" Food & Music Festival last weekend. Diets were forgotten...