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Home » Lake Forest

Tag: Lake Forest

Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Posted inCity Life

Out there, around here

by Salem Collo-Julin June 11, 2021August 18, 2021

Upcoming events and recommendations for the next seven days

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Size matters

by Ben Joravsky October 9, 2019August 18, 2021

Chicago teachers have almost no relief for overcrowded classrooms.

Posted inBlogs

An immersive John Hughes-themed film festival is coming to Chicago this summer

by Leah Pickett January 17, 2017August 18, 2021

The Shermer Club: A John Hughes Fest will take place June 22-25 in the city and suburbs where Hughes’s classic 1980s teen movies were filmed.

Posted inArts & Culture

Jason Diamond’s Searching for John Hughes is really a journey of self-discovery

by Aimee Levitt December 1, 2016August 18, 2021

The Brooklyn author’s North Shore adolescence was a different kind of teen movie.

Posted inBest of Chicago

Chicago’s North Shore fuels architecture fantasies

by Laura Pearson June 23, 2016August 18, 2021

The curving streets of the affluent north suburbs are lined with midcentury-modern marvels and the locations of John Hughes movies.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Hundred-Year House moves backward in time to uncover the source of a haunting

by Aimee Levitt August 4, 2014August 18, 2021

Rebecca Makkai’s latest novel forms a satisfying conspiracy between reader and writer.

Delivery Man
Posted inFilm

The kids are all over in Delivery Man

by J.R. Jones November 27, 2013August 19, 2021

In Delivery Man, Vince Vaughn is a sperm donor with 533 children.

Posted inArts & Culture

Jeanne Nolan’s walk down the garden path

by Aimee Levitt July 28, 2013August 19, 2021

Jeanne Nolan’s new memoir, From the Ground Up, details the education of an organic gardener.

Built in 1929 as a weekend retreat for wealthy Chicagoans, the Deer Path Inn has retained its charms—and can now be enjoyed by the somewhat less privileged.
Posted inArts & Culture

Summer Guide: Bourgie on a budget in Lake Forest

by Mara Shalhoup May 17, 2012August 19, 2021

Summer Guide: a vintage inn, fields of butterflies, and a six-course dinner in Lake Forest

Posted inBlogs

Here’s to the ladies who lunch

by Elly Fishman April 25, 2012August 19, 2021

The annual rummage sale at First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest

Posted inNews & Politics

Boy Wonder

by Tasneem Paghdiwala September 8, 2005August 19, 2021

Peter Gundling’s just your average third-grader. He goes to school. He likes Abba. He’s got a movie studio in the attic.

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