Sherry Thomas

LICENSE TO THRILL

I have many identities— mysterious, chameleonlike personas hatched by the people who run the operation. They orchestrate my every move. Send me flying back and forth through the decades, time-traveler style. One year I’m in 19th century Paris at the Moulin Rouge; the next, I’m skipping ahead to the summer of 1922 at an imagined

DESIGNED TO SELL

A 1917 French Manor-style home that recently went on the market at 755 Sheridan Road in Winnetka had everything a buyer could want in a North Shore property. With incredible curb appeal and a location two blocks from the village and Tower Beach, Compass’s Lowe Group North Shore listing was ready to dazzle its next

GLOBAL CITIZEN

Growing up in Portugal, Tiago Campos Rodrigues spent his weekdays in Lisbon but headed for the beaches and hills of Grândola on the weekends. His work would end up taking him all over the world, landing him in Lake Forest in 2016. While our city on the Lake Michigan shore is a bit different than

CRIME OF THE CENTURY

It was around 9 p.m. that fateful June 12, 1924, evening when Doc, Joe, and Jess Newton saw the train roaring up the tracks at Rondout—an unincorporated borough just miles from the edge of Lake Bluff, right off Route 176. This was it, the moment they’d been waiting for. The outlaws, Texas natives who were

RISING HIGH

Lake Forest is a city of stories, many that are known around the world. One by one, person by person, they create the rich, interwoven roots of Lake Forest from its founding in 1861 to the city we know today. And while the triumphs of such early residents as English architect Howard Van Doren Shaw

WALK BACK THROUGH TIME

In 1923, renowned architect George Maher and his son, Philip, were commissioned to build a pair of connecting houses for two sisters on Chestnut Avenue in Wilmette. Helen Bichl and Dorothy Schager were the daughters of German immigrants Wendelin and Agnes Seng, who built a thriving furniture hardware business in the 1870s. Helen’s husband, Gerard,

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