By Kim Piekos As you walk along the gravel path in Lake Forest’s 168-year-old Forest Park, absorbing the beauty of Lake Michigan and the...

By David A. F. Sweet Memory loss among older Americans is a significant issue. According to a recent report released by the U.S. Centers...

By Ana Jaramillo Lake Forest High School senior Chloe Fournier performed Rhythms of Passion: A Tap Dance Experience at Gorton Center on...

By Ana Jaramillo Chloe Fournier, a senior at Lake Forest High School, has been dancing with Lake Forest Dance Academy for more than a...

By the History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff In the earliest days, the current West Lake Forest area was known as Meehan’s Settlement,...

By Cameron Wacker   “The Negotiator: Billy Caldwell” is a documentary film about Billy Caldwell, son of Mohawk woman Rising Sun and...

By Cameron Wacker Clara Goshgarian was the Lake Forest Public Works’ Ravine Engineering Intern this past summer. Goshgarian spent her...

By David A. F. Sweet Nellyka (Nelly) Dennis is an Engineering Assistant for the City of Lake Forest. She works with engineers and project...

By the The History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff The History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff honored the Brebner family with the...

By David A. F. Sweet Many remember the best-seller Tuesdays with Morrie, when sportswriter Mitch Albom visited his dying college...

By Tyler Klein This essay by Tyler Klein -- a 2024 graduate of Lake Forest High School -- won the Margot Martino Spirit of CROYA award. ...

By Cameron Wacker Camp Hope, a week-long summer camp for teenagers and young adults with disabilities in the Chicagoland area, is an...

By Kim Piekos Nancy Smith sits before her five-foot-wide painting, paintbrush in hand steadied by a mahl stick, focused on every stroke...

By Ashley Love Sarahi Rivera-Martinez served as a Lake Forest Community Service Officer starting in 2022 and graduated from the Police...

By Kim Piekos After 22 years at the helm of the store on Western Avenue, CVS manager Mark Bialk will be retiring June 7. On his last day,...

By Kim Piekos Everyone’s heart lifts a little to see the U.S. flags waving in the breeze around Lake Forest six days a year. In two...

By David A. F. Sweet For the second year, April is Illinois Native Plant Month. It came to be thanks to the efforts of the Lake Forest...

By Kim Piekos Perhaps you’ve seen him.  He’s the guy hawking American Legion raffle tickets outside Sunset Foods each year for Lake...

By David A. F. Sweet Lake Forest Police Chief Karl Walldorf took over the department in 2016, succeeding James Held. He launched his...

By Kim Piekos March of 2020 scarred musicians who had played in the Lake Forest Symphony: not only did the group fold the month before...