Jodie Jacobs

No small plans: One of the reasons cars exist is so high school band members can wash them to pay for a trip to Disney World. Right? Well, not in...

Pates from Le Francais. Lake Perch Grenobloise from Timbers Char House. An airy dessert from Harry Caray's. With food like that and more than 30 other dishes to taste, people...

A spell of fear: Say "ameliorate." The word rolls off the tongue. How about "balderdash." It's a fun word to say. But could you spell either one? Maybe you thought...

A hurry-up world sped by on Interstate Highway 94. But in a field a few yards away, turn-of-the-century tables, spirit-soothing rockers, elegant silver tea sets and art deco jewelry echoed...

An economy campaign: After 23 years as mayor of Highwood, the city's former chief executive plans to move into a new city hall next spring that will be run exactly...

While new studies proclaim the benefits of vitamins, herbs and minerals, the Polson family wonders why it has taken the world so long to catch up to what they have...

Where everyone knows his name: While the Chicago Bears organization was cutting players at Halas Hall in Lake Forest, a few blocks away a Bear was added to the Lantern's...

Once again school halls ring with locker slams. And colorful leaves are beginning to float on the wind. But to the approximately 20,000 north suburbanites who descend on Market Square...

Heady fragrance and riotous color greeted guests at Libertyville Township Hall last weekend. Gone were the usual rows of utility-brown folding chairs. Tomato reds and daisy yellows were de rigueur....

A Mardi Gras-style of madness hit Midlane Country Club in Wadsworth last weekend. Masked men gave money instead of taking it. Beauty and the Beast prowled the premises. But the...