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Sometimes it’s just good to mix things up and that’s exactly what the Women’s Board of Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital is doing for its spring fundraiser, Shakin’ & Stirred, on Saturday, April 27, at 28 Mile Distilling Co. in Highwood. “We’ve successfully hosted a formal gala as our spring fundraiser for many years,” explains

When brainstorming ideas about who would be the best community member to speak at this year’s Lake Forest High School (LFHS) Foundation spring luncheon, Maureen Fitzgerald and her committee immediately thought of Mar’Quone Edmonds, also known as “Coach Q.” As owner of Quest Performance Training in Lake Bluff, the Lake Forest husband and father of

The eight oil-on-canvas panels and four frescos decorating the rotunda of the Lake Forest Library are all that is left of artist Nicolai Remisoff ’s fascinating legacy in the Chicago area. Recently restored after water damage from leaks in the now-repaired library dome, Remisoff ’s Poets and Writers of Antiquity paintings are, “as close to

Lake Bluff’s Brooke Davis and her sisters Alison Graf and Amy Marsch have always loved to read. Their parents Anne and Jeff Browne read to the girls every day throughout childhood. And at night, the flashlight hidden under Brooke’s pillow came out to light the way through countless more reading adventures. “By the time we

Riley O’Neil has never considered herself to be a lady who lunches. But when The Woman’s Board of RUSH University Medical Center asked the long-time board member to chair their signature event, she couldn’t say no. “I’m a single mom with a 7-yearold and I run my own consulting company—it’s hard for me to break