The League of Women Voters-Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Area is disappointed in the Lake Forest City Council’s recent action at its meeting on July 20.
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Lake Bluff Middle School eighth-grader Katie Pierce was listening to the song “Land of Opportunity” by the band A Great Big World a few months ago when she got inspired.
“I was listening to [the song], and I heard the trombone and [the] trumpet [in it],” she said. “I thought it would be so awesome if [the band] could try this, at least try it and see how it goes.”
Nicki Koetting
The Deer Path Inn, 255 E. Illinois Road, has hosted many a weary traveler or a diner looking for a delicious meal since its debut in 1929 in Lake Forest’s Market Square.
Modeled after a mid-15th century Manor house in Kent, England, the Deer Path Inn brings historic English style and service to Lake Foresters and out-of-town guests, said Matt Barba, the inn’s general manager.
However, the traditional English decor also brings historic infrastructure with it.
Nicki Koetting
The Lake Forest Plan Commission approved final plans to develop a 30-acre property located east of Conway Farms, north of Conway Road and at the north end of Oak Knoll Drive, at its meeting on March 11.
Sixteen single-family residential lots, averaging around 32,000 square feet each, or a little over a half acre in size, are being proposed for the vacant Oak Knoll Woodlands property, which is the last large parcel of land available for development in the southwest area of Lake Forest.
Nicki Koetting
Welcome to The Lake Forest Leader. If you’re reading this, that means you’ve made it just about halfway through our first issue, and I hope that you’ve liked what you’ve seen so far. Because at the end of the day, The Leader is here for you.
Nicki Koetting
When Stacey Flaster and Elizabeth Fauntleroy co-founded The Performer’s School in Highwood in 2013, their goal was to become the North Shore’s premier performance studio for young people.
Classes and camps they offer include acting, filmmaking, ballet, tap, tumbling and musical theater.
Nicki Koetting
Moore is a Lake Forest High School junior who plays on the boys volleyball team. He has had 18 aces and 213 kills in the 2014-15 season so far.
Do you have any pregame rituals or superstitions?
When we warm up and everything, everyone is talking, but I don’t really talk to anyone. I put my headphones in and I’m in the zone. I just kind of clear my mind and get ready to focus on the game.
What kind of music are you currently listening to?
Nicki Koetting
From too large for football to too heavy for basketball, nearly everyone wrote him off.
That’s fine. It was the nudge that Diago Quinn needed, that and the initial one from his mom.
The 6-foot-10 center didn’t start playing competitive hoops until after his first year of high school at A. Philip Randolph in Harlem.
Kyle Tyrrell
Corey Knudsen is going to continue his wrestling success story at the University of Wisconsin—Oshkosh next season.
Knudsen’s high school coach at Lake Forest, Matt Fiordirosa, said he’s happy “to see what hard work and dedication can do” but “from a coach’s point of view we’re really going to miss Corey next year.”
“We’ve been building a program that was on the verge of being cut a couple of years ago and Corey helped me out a ton,” Fiordirosa continued.
Nicki Koetting
Preliminary plans for a $31 million TIF-funded development at Laurel and Western avenues have been approved by the Lake Forest City Council.
The development — which passed by a 6-1 vote at a Monday, July 6 meeting — would sit on 10.6 acres of city-owned land that has been virtually abandoned for six years. The project would includes 110 rental apartments, 42 condominiums and 12 single-family homes.
Nicki Koetting