Tours
of famed Hollywood screenwriter, director and producer John Hughes’ Lake Forest
home are featured as part of the annual Winter Wonderwalk & Holiday Boutique benefit for Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart on Tuesday, Dec. 10,
and Wednesday, Dec.11. Participants will have the rare opportunity to go
inside this spectacular English Tudor-style home, which
is being decorated inside and out by award-winning landscape architect Craig
Bergmann. All of the holiday trimmings will be available for purchase.
Tours of the Hughes home and three other architecturally
significant Lake Forest homes, also uniquely decorated for the holidays, will
take place on Dec. 11 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
In
addition to the Housewalk Tours, there’s also a Holiday Boutique on Dec. 10 from
1 to 5 p.m. and a Sip & Shop from 6 to 8 p.m. at Woodlands Academy, 760 E.
Westleigh Road in Lake Forest. Nearly 50 vendors will be selling a variety of
distinctive items. The boutique also will be open on Dec. 11 from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m.
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Advanced
tickets for Winter Wonderwalk may be purchased online at www.woodlandsacademy.org. Early bird tickets (prior to Nov.
27) cost $55. General admission tickets purchased at the door are $65. Boutique-only
tickets are $10 online or $15 at the door. Winter Wonderwalk tickets may be
picked up at Woodlands Academy from 1 to 8 p.m. on Dec. 10 and beginning at 9
a.m. on Dec. 11.
Winter
Wonderwalk is one of the major fund-raising events hosted by the Woodlands
Academy Mothers Club. Proceeds will benefit the school’s financial- aid
program. Nearly one-third of the school’s student body receives some form of
assistance.
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For
Winter Wonderwalk & Holiday Boutique information, visit the Woodlands
Academy Web site or contact Tami Rocha at
trocha@woodlandsacademy.org.
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Founded in 1858, Woodlands Academy is an independent
Catholic college preparatory day and boarding high school for young women, and
part of a worldwide network of Sacred Heart Schools that spans 19 cities in the
United States and 44 countries around the world. A nonprofit, Woodlands
Academy’s identity is rooted in Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat’s desire to
inspire young hearts and minds to excel, to lead lives of integrity and to
serve. For more information about Woodlands Academy, please visit www.woodlandsacademy.org
