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Mariclaire and Lowell Dixon outside their Lake Forest home in front of their historic fence on May 6, 2017.

Lake Forest Preservation Foundation honors historic homes, fence

May 23, 2019 at 10:02 a.m.

The Lake Forest Preservation Foundation honored a dozen structures on Sunday, including a house with a six-story tower and an unusual wooden fence. "It's like a carrot to encourage people...

Lake Forest to stop broadcasting four board, commission meetings on cable TV

May 23, 2019 at 10:02 a.m.

The city of Lake Forest will soon stop broadcasting three board and one commission meeting on cable TV, according to a city press release. May will be the last month...

Shout Out: Mikhail Mekaelian, author

May 23, 2019 at 10:02 a.m.

Mikhail Mekaelian of Lake Bluff wrote "Choose to Rise: The Victory Within," a novel set in the two years before the Armenian genocide that started in April 1915. Mekaelian self-published...

Former Mayor Howard Kerr swears in Robert T.E. Lansing as mayor of Lake Forest on May 1 while his family and the city council watch.

New mayor and council sworn in

May 23, 2019 at 10:02 a.m.

Mayor Robert T.E. Lansing and four aldermen – two of them new – were sworn in on May 1. "I go forward to do my best," Lansing said after he...

Marian Phelps Pawlick, center, with her son, Rob Douglass, right, and his wife, Sue Douglass, left, were honored at Elawa Farm on April 27, 2017, by the Lake Forest Lake Bluff Historical Society for being descendants of families that have been in Lake Forest and Lake Bluff for more than 100 years.

Two families honored for 100-plus years in Lake Forest and Lake Bluff

May 23, 2019 at 10:02 a.m.

Robert Douglass can trace his family ancestry in Lake Bluff more than a century. Douglass said he is the grandson of Mason Phelps. The Phelps family and the family of...

Lake Forest Scout Troop celebrates 90th anniversary

May 23, 2019 at 10:02 a.m.

Boy Scout Troop 46 of Lake Forest celebrated its 90th anniversary in April. The troop was chartered at First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest on April 7, 1927, according to...

Deer Path Middle School, shown here, and three elementary schools in District 67 will have their entrances remodeled to provide greater security, according to the district.

District 67 to upgrade entrance security and library

May 23, 2019 at 10:02 a.m.

Lake Forest District 67 is spending $5.4 million this summer to improve security at its four schools and upgrade the Haskins Library at Deer Path Middle School. The Board of...

Lake Bluff forms committee to review residential building regulations

May 23, 2019 at 10:02 a.m.

The Lake Bluff Village Board formed a new committee on April 24 to review residential building regulations. The Residential Building Ad Hoc Committee was formed after the Plan Commission/Zoning Board...

Shout Out: Mateusz Obstoj, college student

May 23, 2019 at 10:02 a.m.

Mateusz Obstoj, a senior at Lake Forest College, recently won $5,000 in the "Pitch It" entrepreneur competition, along with his partner, Evelyn Johnson. The two designed a reusable metal case...

Lake Forest junior Emily Lacey, right, prepares for the annual Physics Boat Regatta on April 24, 2017, at Lake Forest High School.

Cardboard boats mostly float at high school regatta

May 23, 2019 at 10:02 a.m.

Cardboard and water are normally a bad combination, but on Monday the two mixed in the pool at Lake Forest High School. The annual Physics Boat Regatta requires students to...

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