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A COMMUNITY FUND OF OUR OWN

“You know that adage ‘there are no new ideas?’” asks Lake Forester Bruce Grieve. “Well, I almost had one.” What Grieve is referring to is having a community fund in Lake Forest. While a community fund that collects money from local residents to support its city isn’t a new concept, having one in Lake Forest

GO WITH THE FLOW

Now that summer is in full swing, swim season is officially here. One thing professional swimmers know is the importance of warming up before they compete. It gets the blood flowing and helps prevent injury. And when mental training is incorporated, the brain sends a signal telling the body it’s time to get into the

COUTURE CLEAN

Just under the fleur-de-lys logo—a time-honored symbol for perfection—the words “Couture Cleaning” clearly state Lake City Cleaners’ service standard to anyone catching a glimpse of the delivery vans as they shuttle by. It’s been that way from the start. Victor Seyedin, proud owner of Lake Forest’s Lake City Cleaners, and two more locations in Evanston,

THE TRUTH ABOUT KETAMINE

The old saying, “There is no such thing as bad press” may hold true most of the time, but unfortunately that hasn’t yet proved to be the case with current stories regarding Ketamine. Unfortunately, Ketamine came up in a toxicology report in a recent terrible Hollywood tragedy and many in the media negligently created a

STITCH IN TIME

When the door swings open to The Canvasback needlepoint shop in Northfield, rainbows of stitching fibers shout an optic popping, “Hello!” from the wall displays. Celebrating the shop’s 50th year in the business, owner Eilene Isaacs is delighted that needlepoint is enjoying a renaissance. “Mature stitchers have been joined by new younger stitchers, who are

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

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