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Why great athletes don’t leave game day up to chance, and how your athlete can start doing the same. Each month, peak performance sports psychologist (and fellow North Shore parent) Dr. E tackles your toughest questions head-on. Dear Dr. E.— My athlete’s physical prep is solid. They eat right, train hard, and warm up before

More than a half-century after getting his break covering a Lake Forest tennis match, Mark McMahon is still capturing history with his sketchpad and insatiable curiosity. THERE’S SO MUCH ARTISTIC TALENT in Mark McMahon’s family, it’s nearly impossible to avoid pondering the age-old nature versus nurture argument. Are they all carriers of some “art gene,”

Brothers Matt and Blair Nagel donate their former company’s headquarters to Lake Forest Open Lands Association. WHEN MATT AND BLAIR NAGEL first built their family business headquarters in the heart of Middlefork, they chose the site for its quiet beauty. Tucked into one of Lake Forest’s most remarkable natural landscapes, the building was designed to

Lake Forest native Meggie Julian followed an unexpected passion—and found a life she never imagined. IF YOU HAD ASKED MEGGIE JULIAN 10 years ago what her future looked like, she likely would have described a classroom, not a floral studio. A Lake Forest native, Julian followed a path that felt familiar and practical. She attended

From beachside concession stand to community landmark, Left Bank Hot Dogs honors its past while embracing the future. FOR FORREST SIMMS, the few accidentally misplaced golf balls he knocked into a neighbor’s backyard turned out to be his family’s introduction to Bob and Gert Pasquesi and the iconic Left Bank Hot Dogs business they built.
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