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A PASSION FOR FOSTERING COMMUNITY

Earlier this year, Lake Barrington welcomed Sharon Peterson as the new village administrator, and the future of the village continues to shine bright with her at the helm. Since May, Peterson graciously stepped into the role previously held by Karen Daulton Lange, who for the last six years made an influential and indelible mark on

GREAT IMAGINATIONS

We know he grew up in Philly. Always wanted to be writer; can’t remember exactly when or how it all started though. Could have been junior year in high school when “an inspired teacher assigned Robert Penn Warren’s All the Kings Men.” Maybe. We know he published a short story in1988 about a guy becoming

THE BUZZ: NOVEMBER 2023

TUCK IT The houseguests are coming, and they’re hoping for luxe linens. Pop into Yves Delorme for a sumptuous refresh to any suite. The Fugues Collection is a whimsical favorite, printed with a design celebrating herbs and the link between humans and nature. Renditions of chamomile, angelica, and thyme weave their way over the long

WRITE ON

In 1972, at age 9, Lake Forest native David Sweet nearly drowned—inside an Atlanta Braves bat-boy uniform. Picture a slim boy wearing a pop-up tent tucked inside a pair of billowy baseball pants. “The uniform was at least three sizes too big,” recalls a smiling Sweet, who was told his late parents, Philip and Nancy,

HARDWOOD KNOCK

Rich Cohen’s one-on-one basketball battles with his father, Herb, atop the family’s Glencoe driveway in the mid-1980s rarely ended well for Rich. Future author Rich was 17 in 1985. Herb was in his early 50s. In his new book, When the Game Was War: The NBA’s Greatest Season (Random House, 232 pages), Rich Cohen, now

#HASHTAG: LISA KINZELBERG

LISA KINZELBERG hopes her paintings take you on a journey. “Art is spiritual … it brings us together,” she says. “It can transport you out of the day-to-day and toward our shared human experiences.” Specifically, the Winnetka artist wants her abstract work to reveal a quiet yet powerful energy, the mystery and profundity of consciousness—and

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