Linda Lipp

Where`s the fire?: The next time a firetruck pulls up at Barat College in Lake Forest, students and passersby won`t need to look for smoke. The guy on the ladder...

Spurred by the devastation in Los Angeles and the threat of violence in their own cities, about 100 church, community and municipal leaders from North Chicago, Waukegan and Zion have...

The future looks good: By the time she is 15, budding model Elisabeth Schaper, a Libertyville High School freshman, will have had her picture published in Teen Magazine-twice. Schaper, the...

A sellout crowd of 350 people danced the night away last weekend at a Libertyville Junior Woman`s Club benefit for A Safe Place, a Lake County shelter for battered women....

Wauconda Mayor Jim Keagle is pessimistic that meetings between the village and C&H Development will resolve their differences over the density and lot sizes of the proposed Roney Farms residential...

A lot of egg-cited youngsters got eggs-actly (okay, we`ll stop) what they wanted last week at the Gurnee Park District`s annual Easter egg hunt. Hundreds of eager, enthusiastic egg hunters...

When Waukegan Lions Club booster Jerry Wendricks and his friend the late Bevier Butts founded the Waukegan Sports Hall of Fame in 1974, the last thing Wendricks expected was to...

Cooking up a deal: Real estate folks go to great lengths to show homes at their best, but here`s an outfit that beats `em all. The promoters of The Ponds...

A private skyline: The Chicago skyline can now be viewed from the Lake Forest home of Drs. Himani and Deepak Dalia. Waukegan artist Jim Harrington is the creator of the...

Art imitated life, which imitated art in a photo exhibit that opened last weekend at the Suburban Fine Arts Center`s Cortesi Gallery in Highland Park. ''Spirited Visions,'' by Chicago photographer...