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...

By Kim Piekos In anticipation of spring, Lake Forest’s Boy Scout Troop 46 is focused on helping residents create beautiful gardens when...

By David A. F. Sweet Think of the camera angles sports viewers take for granted: the above-the-rim shot that shows tomahawk dunks during...

By Kim Piekos Do what you love and the rest will follow, so they say. That wisdom has certainly played out in the work of Cindy Housner,...

By David A. F. Sweet  Committee Representing Our Young Adults (CROYA) hosted the annual flag football Donut Bowl game with the Lake...

By David A. F. Sweet Committee Representing Our Young Adults – better known as CROYA – was founded by Lake Forest College President...

By Kim Piekos Dr. Cosmo Vivirito is a general dentist in St. Charles. While attending Lake Forest College, he interned with orthodontist...

By the History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff As model railroading soared in popularity across the country in the 1930s, Elliott...

By The History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff According to his daughter Harriet, in 1886 Julian Matthews arrived in Lake Forest “in a...

By David A. F. Sweet For the first time, the Lake Forest Police Department hired a full-time social worker in 2022 to provide counseling...

By Caroline Gerber “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.” Those are the words that Winston Churchill uttered during the darkest...

By Kim Piekos Apples don’t fall far from trees, so they say. That is certainly true of Hollywood actors and directors Andrew, Owen and...

By David A. F. Sweet Two Lake Forest High School seniors, Taylor Ross and Lucy Mulloy, have been selected to participate in the Illinois...

By Kim Piekos Lake Forest’s Elawa Farm, originally developed for the A. Watson Armour family in 1917, opened its Discovery Garden to the...

By Judith L. Pearson Twenty-five-thousand square feet. Fifty-six rooms. A 100-by-40-foot swimming pool. This is not the description of a...

By Marina Vaca Steve Sarauer is the Scouts Hockey Director and Varsity Head Coach, and Emily Savage is the president of the Lake Forest...