Jodie Jacobs

Held last weekend on an elegant old Lake Forest estate, Gorton Community Center's 21st annual black-tie dinner, dance and raffle, "Una Bella Notte," could hardly have been better named. To...

Bikers with a mission: The swarms of motorcyclists buzzing around the countryside near the Illinois-Wisconsin border a few weekends ago were not joy riders. They had a mission: to call...

It was a yippee-i-ay type of day. The Associate Board of the Lake Forest Open Lands Association had brought rodeo-style fun to Lake Forest last weekend. The board was hosting...

If you think that flying a kite is probably the one uncomplicated, any-fool-could-do-it activity left in our increasingly high-tech world, you missed the Lake County Forest Preserves' Lake County Museum...

Worth singing about: The halls are ringing with sounds from "Joseph" at Deerpath Junior High in Lake Forest. The school's specially assembled 23-member chorus survived a couple of nail-biting months...

Spirits were high aboard the Spirit of the Manatee submarine and at Mission Control. Four hours into their mission, the 14-member submarine crew had rotated rest, exercise and snacks with...

Hawthorne Woods, a bedroom community of 4,400 people north of Long Grove, became a garage sale junkie's dream last weekend. That's when hundreds of cars clogged the suburb's narrow, winding...

Black tie was optional at Victory Memorial Hospital's annual Victory Ball last weekend. Life jackets were not. Even though it was Friday the 13th, the additional apparel would not be...

A rainbow of high-flying colorful specks slowed traffic on Illinois Highway 173 last weekend, drawing the curious, the young and the young at heart to Antioch High School's athletic field....

Releaf campaign: The pipeline of aid from Lake County organizations to flood-ravaged communities Downstate continues to flow. First, the Lake Forest Chamber of Commerce sent $7,000 raised in an Our...