By Rebecca Foster-Goodman The spirit of giving is most often associated with the holiday season. Food pantries, churches and shelters see...

By Adrienne Fawcett ENAZ prides itself on being a one-stop shop for mothers and daughters alike. This is literally true, as the trendy...

By Adrienne Fawcett Remember when people took to scrubbing food packages with antiseptic wipes before bringing them into the house at the...

By Adrienne Fawcett It’s Friday evening, that time when the stress of work and school give way to the weekend. Meeting a friend for...

By Whitley Pleas Each year, on the day after Thanksgiving, Kim Placentino’s front yard transforms into a Christmas wonderland. A...

By Rebecca Foster-Goodman Pop-up shops are a festive way to shop for the holidays, and Lake Forest Station takes that experience one...

By Whitley Pleas Lake Forest residents believe it is one of the best places in Illinois – if not the country – to raise a family. With...

By Whitley Pleas In Lake Forest, small business owners survived both the COVID-19 pandemic’s height in 2020 and labor shortages and...

By Adrienne Fawcett The Friday before Thanksgiving, volunteers of The Church of the Holy Spirit food pantry joyfully gave away 100 frozen...

By David A. F. Sweet Since the Lake Forest Tree Lighting Ceremony dawned in 1987, Tim Haskett has been involved in each one. Back then,...

By Rick Day Tucked into the back corner of the courtyard at 950 N. Western Ave., there sits a nondescript storefront which at first...

By Whitley Pleas For the past six years, Ryan Davis experienced a coaching partnership like no other: his father, Ken Davis, served as...

By Rebecca Foster-Goodman Born and raised in Lake Forest, Allison Gurza returned home after college and taught at the School of St. Mary...

By Whitley Pleas Inside their home on McKinley Road on Columbus Day, the members of McKinlock Post 264 of the American Legion began...

By Adrienne Fawcett Lake Forest Open Lands Association has quite a few surprises in store for guests of Bagpipes & Bonfire on Sunday,...

By Kim Piekos “We’re back!” exclaims Friends of Lake Forest Library Used Book Sale co-chairs Nancy Mieling and Sande Noble. After taking...

By Kim Piekos Lake Forest is blessed with a rich history. It’s easy to overlook stories from the past that help us appreciate how this...

By Rebecca Foster-Goodman After more than a year of quarantine and lockdown, the residents of Lake Forest are outside en masse enjoying...

By Adrienne Fawcett There’s a new face at 570 Oakwood Ave. in Lake Forest – actually two. Sew Confident is on the street level, giving...

By Carlie Mertz After taking a year off due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 113th Lake Forest Day will be back Aug. 3-4. The two-day...