Jodie Jacobs

Veiled dancers, a treasure-filled bazaar, a bejeweled sultan: This is the stuff of 1,001 Arabian dreams. And it was also the stuff of a few dreams closer to home in...

The Highland Park Strings, a professional sounding but amateur-composed ensemble of 31 North Shore musicians, reached a high note last weekend. After 14 years of offering free concerts, the community...

Good stock: Two Lake County businesses, CLF and CLC, want their investors to think like stockholders. CLF's recently published annual report boasted a stock certificate cover. Head officer Robert Kiely...

About 300 tuxedoed and gowned symphony supporters stepped out in style at the Lake Forest Symphony Guild's glittery black-tie benefit, "Steppin' Out." Held last weekend at the Benefit Trust Life...

Have a good cause. Set the event in the perfect house. And they will come. As 250 guests recently thronged through the artfully decorated Lake Bluff home of Chicago Mercantile...

Boring ... NOT!: Classical music and middle-grade students-combining these two sounds is as likely as mixing oil and water. But Lake Forest Symphony Conductor Paul Anthony McRae has come up...

Gaily colored signal flags and sails billow overhead. A bright red bow appears ready to plow through the rubberized azure sea, waiting only for 4-year-old Capt. Oren Pollack of Highland...

Glass in the streets?: Rumors have been flying around Lake Forest lately about bits of colored glass affixed to the streets in the southern part of town. "The wildest one...

Preschoolers and parents crowded every gingerbreadb-decorated nook and balloon-brightened cranny of Gorton Community Center in Lake Forest last weekend. After the last doughnut was devoured, the last carol sung, the...

What`s cooking?: The hot book around Highland Park High School these days is a nourishing how-to book: the recently published, 188-page, $10 Highland Park High School Collection of Recipes. And...