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Micki McMahon, a sophomore at Lake Forest High School, stands next to her art at the annual Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Artisan Guild fair in Lake Forest Sept. 6.

Artisan Guild celebrates 10th year at Labor Day weekend fair

May 23, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

At its first fair in 2005, the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Artisan Guild had 13 exhibitors showing their arts and crafts at the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Historical Society building. The organizers...

Fourteen-year-old Bukuroshe Hasani gets her meningitis vaccine at a Chicago Public Health Facility by nurse Rosita Chan on Aug. 25. Hasani is a freshman about to start classes at Elmwood Park High School.

Lake Forest schools working to comply with new state vaccine mandate

May 23, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

With six weeks to go until a new state vaccine requirement kicks in, 95 percent of seniors at Lake Forest High School have submitted proof of being vaccinated against meningitis,...

Lake Bluff Police to carry Tasers

May 23, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

Lake Bluff police will soon add Tasers to their belts. Village trustees approved buying 13 Tasers at a cost of nearly $25,600 at their Aug. 24 meeting. After one year,...

Lane Pasquesi of Lake Forest (right) prepares a hot dog for longtime customer David Poulton of Lake Forest, at the stand in front of Left Bank in Lake Forest, Friday, Aug. 28.

Lake Forest’s Left Bank restaurant leaves family after 52 years

May 23, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

It was two days until Lane Pasquesi left the Left Bank restaurant forever, but he still apologized for talking while cleaning out mustard containers, running the dishwasher and offering tips...

Theater Renovation caps Gorton Community Center rehab

May 23, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

Last week, the lights dimmed in the Gorton Community Center auditorium and a wedding party walking around a European village appeared on the newly installed screen. The video was made...

Donati's Pizza recently opened its fourth location at 205 S. Waukegan Road in Lake Bluff.

Donati’s owners open fourth location in Lake Bluff

May 23, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

Twelve years after graduating together from Lake Forest High School, Jeff Urso and Ray Bozic are still hanging out together – only now as business partners. Urso and Bozic opened...

Demolition looks increasingly likely for iconic Blair House

May 23, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

Attempts to find a buyer in time to stop the clock on demolition of Lake Bluff's historic Blair House appear to have been unsuccessful. In December 2014, representatives of the...

Lake Forest junior Meg Nemickas practices with the dance squad.

Hard work delivers national titles for LFHS dance squad

May 23, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

Nicolette Stern, captain of the Poms team at Lake Forest High School, started dancing at age two. "A little baby ballet class," said Stern, a senior. "Ever since then I've...

Best-selling author Vanessa Diffenbaugh makes local visits

May 23, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

Though it's only August, author Vanessa Diffenbaugh is already looking forward to spending Christmas with her four kids and family rather than working. Diffenbaugh, who will be speaking at The...

40th annual book sale supports Lake Forest Library

May 23, 2019 at 9:48 a.m.

The secret to a successful book sale is all in the alphabetizing. "Our challenge has been to make it as user-friendly as possible, to alphabetize and categorize," said Nancy Mieling,...

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