Jodie Jacobs

Pancakes were the breakfast of choice for 750 people last weekend at an annual fundraiser for the Lake County Family YMCA. "It took six (pancakes) to fill me up," said...

Sick call: Between ridiculously cold weather and the flu season, it's a wonder anyone has shown up for anything lately, including work or school. But on the flu front, here's...

Jeans, boots and vests were in, starched shirts were out at Knollwood Country Club in Lake Forest last weekend. About 140 people chowed down on quesadillas, then worked off the...

The presence of Winston Churchill, Woodrow Wilson, Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso took many of the 230 guests at a North Shore party by surprise. It wasn't because of the...

A place for everything: Messy desks have put Chicago-area professional organizer Eileen Parelman in the national spotlight. The answering machine on Parelman's own clean desk in Wheeling has not stopped...

Historical Moses, hysterical Ross Perot and a histrionic Jerry Reinsdorf as Pagliacci bemoaning the loss of Michael Jordan: The stage at Elm Place School in Highland Park was filled with...

From bagpipes and banjos to guitars and dulcimers, music filled the American Legion Hall in Libertyville last weekend as the David Adler Cultural Center threw its annual folk music birthday...

A high school reprise: Yale sophomore Alex Funk, 19, of Highland Park put a new twist on a time-honored tradition of visiting the old high school while home for the...

Into Africa: The end of apartheid in South Africa is headline news, and it's something Rev. Terry V. Swicegood, senior pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest, can...

There were some glad hearts and some shy smiles and a few very sincere Merry Christmases. But the event at Libertyville Township Hall last weekend was not the typical holiday...