Jodie Jacobs

The spread of blended families has complicated the job of schools. The problem may be as simple as keeping last names straight, when a student's name differs from a parent's,...

They're not the Brady bunch. Their names are Laurie and Jeff Rizzolo. His sons, Jason, 16, and Cory, 11, and their cat, Squeak, share a house in Libertyville with her...

The American Brain Tumor Association was the big winner at Casino '93, held at the Multiplex in Deerfield last weekend. The nearly 1,000 people who swarmed the sports-health club facility...

Reality was never much of a problem for television's "Brady Bunch," a stepfamily scenario in which a widow and widower merged her three girls and his three boys into a...

There was a traffic jam on Memory Lane last weekend, as about 10,000 people bent on recapturing the past mobbed a corn field next to the Volo Auto Museum. The...

Flushed with success: Officials of the Lake County Forest Preserve District call it Picnic Permit Day. But really it's the district's annual pajama party. Representatives from about 25 groups bedded...

Home again: After conquering the West with works in major exhibitions and galleries from San Francisco to Santa Fe, one-time California multimedia artist Marla Brill, a Skokie native, says she...

Lake Forest Hospital's annual Women's Auxiliary Board benefit is quickly becoming one of the hottest tickets on the North Shore. Close to 700 people wildly applauded Ray Charles last weekend,...

About 215 oldsters, youngsters and middle-aged joggers ambled a body-slimming 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) in western Libertyville last weekend. But it was not their own shape that inspired them to...

A gray mist hung over the ghosts, witches and pirates sprawled against the trees. Kindred nether-world creatures sank fangs into hot dogs, brats and burgers. At first glance it seemed...