Ann Marie Scheidler

To some, timing is everything. And Lake Forest High School’s newest exchange student Jill-Marie Berg would count herself among this select few. In Norway, it’s common for high school students to study abroad before they move on to university. As Berg approached her junior year of high school, she was certain she wanted to come

Vickie Marasco’s middle child struggled with substance issues when he was at Lake Forest High School in 2013. “At that time, it was interesting facing an issue like this in a community that feels like they don’t have these kinds of problems,” Marasco explains. “But those issues do happen and are happening in places like

When Anna Chadwick Gardner was a young professional living in New York in the late 1990s, she knew she had a story to tell. “I graduated from Tulane with a degree in finance, and the job market was booming,” says Gardner, who now lives in Winnetka with her husband and three children. “There were so

As a young man, it was never part of F.J. Phillips’s life plan to one day raise his family in the town he grew up in—Wilmette. “Both of my parents were raised in the same part of Wilmette. We have lots of roots in this area going back to the mid-40s,” Phillips says. “My kids

“We love to shop, browse, scroll, click, and thumb through magazines and catalogs,” says Stephanie Knight, co-chair with Lisa Chang and Dana Geldermann of the 44th Annual Holiday Boutique on November 16-18 at Lake Forest Recreation Center. “We wanted to bring what we see out there on social media and in magazine editorials here to