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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Amazing Photos of April's Floods in the Chicago Area

Hopefully you're beginning to recover from the massive flooding of recent days. Here's a collection of the gee-whizziest photos on Patch from across the Chicago area.

Whether you’ve spent Friday at the mercy of an inordinately long rerouted commute or you’ve been down in the basement trepidatiously wading through murky liquid of questionable origins, you might want to see how others fared in this week's rains and floods. Here's a gallery of some of the most remarkable flood photos across the greater Chicago region.  And remember, in most cases, it could be worse. Unless you were caught in the now-viral Oak Park-River Forest High School sewage geyser (that's the PG name). Those folks get a free pass to be as bitter as they want. For complete Lake Forest News, sign up for our free newsletter,"like" us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.

Sunday, November 11, 2012

25 New Businesses Open in Lake Forest in the Past 20 Months

New businesses include a photography studio, restaurants and retail stores.

This has been a record year for small businesses in Lake Forest, according to Susan Kelsey, Lake Forest’s economic development coordinator. “In the past 20 months, 25 businesses have opened in Lake Forest. The remaining are opening up before the end of this year and early next year." "The city has been streamlining the process for new businesses and we hope that is one reason they are opening so fast,” Kelsey said. Bloom & Focus, Kerri Sherman’s photography studio and gallery, is one of Lake Forest’s newest businesses, opened on October 11. Sherman, a Lake Forester for the last seven years, said it wasn’t hard to follow her passion despite the slowly recovering national economy. She knew she had something unique to offer – a space to …

PB KRAL

8:04 am on Friday, December 28, 2012

My husband brought is business to Lake Forest almost a year ago. He called the city of Lake Forest to introduce himself, but no one called him back or welcomed him. I will introduce him: Richard Kral with Kenilworth Steel at 920 S. Waukegan Road. I am a life time resident of Lake Forest, & I was very disappointed that no one could bother to welcome Richard or his business to Lake Forest.   more ›

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