Jodie Jacobs

More than 60 Lake County teenagers and their parents milled around the entertainment stage at Gurnee Mills last weekend. But they had not come to be entertained or to shop....

Round Lake High School students Michelle Krause and Dontane Staples danced through the night, never tiring. Mundelein High School student Ray Swift linked arms with longtime friend Kelly Quigley of...

The Infant Welfare Society's 1993 Showcase House, the William A.P. Pullman estate in Lake Forest, debuted to rave reviews at an opening-night benefit last weekend. Offering a peek prior to...

"The First," an inspiring musical about Jackie Robinson's trailblazing entrance into baseball's major leagues, attracted a diamond-studded roster at its recent Midwestern premiere at Marriott's Lincolnshire Theatre. The show rekindled...

Party conversation took a decidedly do-you-remember-when bent at the Bonnie Brook Club House in Waukegan recently. But the approximately 120 partygoers could be excused for living in the past. The...

Not a hook and ladder was in sight when about 60 firefighters, police officers and residents answered a call at Gorton Community Center in Lake Forest last weekend. Slacks and...

After almost a week of blanketing the North Shore with bone-chilling fog, the weather turned sunny last weekend, just in time to boost north suburban participation in the National Multiple...

In with the old: Save a charming old building, put it to public use but not place it on the tax rolls? Challenging but not impossible, say some Highland Park...

Art fair followers still have almost three months to go before the outdoor show season. But North Suburban Synagogue Beth El's 33rd Annual Festival of the Arts did a lot...

Hall of fame: New York has its Cooperstown. Ohio has Canton. And Illinois has its Waukegan Sports Hall of Fame. Except Waukegan's, currently housed at the city's public library, doesn't...