By David A. F. Sweet When plans were under review for the new Lake Forest Police Station, one key observation helped improve the design:...

By David A. F. Sweet Ethan Holmes is the Veteran of the Year for Lake Forest. In November, he’ll have completed four years of service...

By Jenny Liang When William Elliott, then a seventh-grader, walked into the CROYA Student Union, he had no idea how transformative the...

By Jenny Liang Around Lake Forest, business owner and mom Gina Dardi gets asked a common question: “What does your license plate mean?”...

While a senior at Lake Forest High School, Michaela Barry wrote a piece about Committee Representing Our Young Adults (CROYA) following...

By Kayla Moore   Summer is always the busiest season for Lake Forest Parks & Recreation – but according to Director Mike Wick, 2025 is...

By David A. F. Sweet It is estimated that at least 20 percent of artwork in museums – even at the best ones in New York and London – are...

By Helena Kavanagh At the beginning of each August, generations of Lake Forest residents gather for a celebration that feels as timeless...

By Spencer Trees The Summer Arts Festival in Lake Bluff offered a few nice surprises this year. “I didn’t really think colored pencil...

By the History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Part of the appeal of Lake Forest for author F. Scott Fitzgerald when he visited in 1915...

By Angeline Lombardi Lake Forest resident Cindy Corrigan has enjoyed visiting Forest Park Beach on Lake Michigan since she moved to town...

By Lizzy Grace In the 1920s, Lake Forest became a destination for many of Chicago’s wealthy, exhibiting country clubs, polo fields, and...

By Lyla Carney Ed Madsen, a proud graduate of LFHS and a member of the Class of ‘55, recently wrote a toast to the Class of 2025—70...

By David A. F. Sweet A few years ago, Bruce Grieve shared an idea with his friend Bill Andersen. Over coffee in Market Square, Grieve –...

By Ashley Love On May 4, Kinderhaven Preschool Academy celebrated the incredible artistic talents of its youngest creators at its 18th...

By Kristin Elliott (Photos by Thais O'Malley) Lake Forest Parks & Recreation and Lake Forest Open Lands recently joined forces to host...

By Cara Goldstone Ellen Stelter has always had a passion for education; as a longtime French teacher and 25-year resident of Lake Forest,...

By Cara Goldstone From storybooks read aloud to classic Hollywood productions, there are countless ways to tell a fairytale—but perhaps...

By a Lake Forest Love Writer The Lake Forest Chapter of the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago will transform a limestone Georgian-style...

By the History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff It’s been 100 years since The Great Gatsby was published on April 10, 1925, but the work...