Ross Werland

Gasp!: The American Lung Association's Lake County Region is trying a new fundraising gimmick that should help curtail smoking in the long term but might promote it on that tension-filled...

Look, up in the sky: Mark your calendar for May 6 and 7, and on those days, run outside and look up, because there will be a spectacle likely never...

Fifty years later: One strong point made by the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington is that the Jewish people were not alone in suffering the horror of Nazi concentration camps....

Beach brigade: Lake Minear Beach, an oasis for sunbathers, swimmers and anglers near downtown Libertyville, will be open to members again this year after last season's cliff-hanger, when the Libertyville...

Terrible splendor: Tony Grunsfeld of Highland Park has two very powerful feelings at work right now: fear and pride. His son John has one more: curiosity. And it's that feeling...

Special delivery: The New Tradition Chorus, a barbershop group based in Northbrook, is offering romantics who live anywhere from the Wisconsin border into Cook and McHenry Counties the opportunity to...

Special delivery: The New Tradition Chorus, a barbershop group based in Northbrook and drawing many of its 130 members from Lake County, is offering romantics who live anywhere from the...

Buddy system: When band director Earl Bush of Antioch Upper Grade School and wife Donna lost their aged dog, Princess, to poor health last summer, they didn't think they could...

Chichi theater: Almost anyone visiting the Cuneo Museum, the palatial estate on Milwaukee Avenue in Vernon Hills now open to the public, will at first be struck by its elegance,...

Uneasy rider: Interim Supt. Richard Kolze of Antioch High School District 117 is willing to make anyone a great deal on his all-terrain vehicle (like a motorcycle with four wheels)....