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Tag: Lake Forest
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Size matters
Chicago teachers have almost no relief for overcrowded classrooms.
Posted inBlogs
An immersive John Hughes-themed film festival is coming to Chicago this summer
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
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
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
Rebecca Makkai’s latest novel forms a satisfying conspiracy between reader and writer.
Posted inFilm
The kids are all over in Delivery Man
In Delivery Man, Vince Vaughn is a sperm donor with 533 children.
Posted inArts & Culture
Jeanne Nolan’s walk down the garden path
Jeanne Nolan’s new memoir, From the Ground Up, details the education of an organic gardener.
Posted inArts & Culture
Summer Guide: Bourgie on a budget in Lake Forest
Summer Guide: a vintage inn, fields of butterflies, and a six-course dinner in Lake Forest
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Here’s to the ladies who lunch
The annual rummage sale at First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest
Posted inNews & Politics
Boy Wonder
Peter Gundling’s just your average third-grader. He goes to school. He likes Abba. He’s got a movie studio in the attic.