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“The children at Allendale, on average, experience 14 different living arrangements before they find their way to the residential program at Allendale,” says Lake Forest’s Cassie Mancuso Carver. “They experience so much trauma and instability, how can someone not be driven to help?” Allendale Association is a nonprofit child welfare agency based in Lake Villa,

It’s been 25 years since Paul Sacaridiz, The Ragdale Foundation’s new Executive Director, first came to the Lake Forest nonprofit as an artist-in-residence. A deep-thinking artist, his work as a sculptor would be exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum and other venues throughout the country. Then, building from this base,

When or—if—King George II stood up upon hearing the “Hallelujah” chorus at the premiere of Handel’s “Messiah” in 1743, was it because he was moved, or had a cramp? We’ll never know. Likewise, when Beethoven premiered his Ninth Symphony in Vienna, we cannot be sure if the nearly deaf composer turned around to see a

Dina Besic almost can’t retell the story of the March day last year when she learned that her 2-year-old son Maxwell had leukemia. “Max is our rainbow baby,” Besic says of her oldest child. “My husband and I had been trying to have a baby for 10 years and of course, during the apocalypse of