Lake Forest Podcast

Joanna Rolek Executive Director Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Chamber of Commerce joins Skoo Walker and Pete Jansons on their 100th show!!!

During Covid Joanna and her team worked tirelessly to do what they could to help out all the 402 businesses that are a member of the LF/LB Chamber. Joe Knesley from Chiefs Pub and Jeff Urso from Donatis' Pizza and Pucks Wings were among the many business owners singing their praises.

Show notes:

Lake Forest "Then & Now" Auto Show Sun Oct 10, 12-3pm at the West Lake Forest Train Station includes “Food & Libation Station”, great raffle, & entertainment

The Chamber helped process 22k in gift cards for local business during COVID

402 businesses are in the Chamber (one of the largest around)

The next event is the Cocoa Crawl during tree lighting day (after thanksgiving) which is among the 50+ events the Chamber hosts each year

They do welcome boxes for all new residents with contents from 40+ businesses

Business Consultant Kathleen Wood, co-owner of Suzy’s Swirl was one of the many people that rallied to help businesses

Staff:

Joanna made sure to give shouts to....

Amy Taylor, Marketing & Communications

Sarah Lockhart, Social Media

Sue Kocanda, Member Services

Kirsten Caspersen, Office Manager

The ways we can help Joanna and her team to support businesses:

1. Join the Chamber – all businesses, entrepreneurs and nonprofits are welcome to join the Chamber family and take advantage of many benefits

2. Patronize Local Businesses and “Think Local First”

3. Have patience as a customer

https://business.lflbchamber.com/events/details/lake-forest-then-now-auto-show-10-10-2021-20614

https://www.lflbchamber.com/

https://www.lflbchamber.com/2020/11/16/joanna-rolek-lf-lb-chamber-of-commerce/

https://business.lflbchamber.com/events/details/lake-forest-then-now-auto-show-10-10-2021-20614

https://www.lflbchamber.com/

https://www.lflbchamber.com/2020/11/16/joanna-rolek-lf-lb-chamber-of-commerce/

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Thanks to our #1 Patreon Supporter Rev. Luke Back and The Church of the Holy Spirit

Lake Bluff resident Scott Spires novel "Abandon All Hope" is coming out soon and he came on the show to tell us all about it. We will update the links as the book hits the market.

HerHere''s some info to "wet your whistle" 

Biography

Scott Spires is a writer, a translator, and a nomad at heart. Born in India, he has since enjoyed a transatlantic life, living in the United States, Argentina, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, and Russia. He studied linguistics and Slavic languages at the universities of Chicago, St. Andrews, and Oxford, and works as a translator from Russian and German into English. Currently he lives just north of Chicago in charming and bucolic Lake Bluff, a few minutes walk from Lake Michigan.

As a writer, he has an extensive publication record, which includes academic articles on linguistics, as well as articles on such diverse subjects as the Czech beer industry, the New Urbanist movement in America, minority languages in Russia, and many others. His literary side is manifested in numerous book reviews and short stories. Abandon All Hope is his first novel.

Set in Chicago in 1998 when Clinton was in office, the story evokes such 1990s classics as High Fidelity and Fight Club, our two antiheroes struggle against unsympathetic employers, uncomprehending relatives, meaningless jobs, romantic frustration, and social isolation, all while searching for a life of meaning and purpose, each in his own way. Abandon All Hope is a comic novel of ideas that asks the questions: How do you make your way in a world where stability is illusory, fraud and lies are ubiquitous, and happiness is always elusive? Should you be a realist or an idealist? And how’s life working out for you, anyway?

Hot off the presses!!! The book is out!!!

https://swspires.weebly.com/blog/behind-abandon-all-hope

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/abandon-all-hope-scott-spires/1140194144?ean=9781736827826

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736827820/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Scott+Spires&qid=1632395171&s=books&sr=1-3

https://swspires.weebly.com/

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Matt Nielsen stopped by to clue in Skoo Walker and Pete Jansons about the 20th Lake Bluff Rib Fest going on Oct 2 12:30 pm at the Lake Bluff Gazebo grounds! 

"Follow the Smoke"

Notes:

Christian Erzinger was founded with some buddies in a back yard of Lake Bluff

20-25 Teams competing

Peoples Choice award goes to the Team that receives the most votes and $ goes to Beef4Hunger.org

http://www.beef4hunger.org/

https://www.facebook.com/lakebluffribfest/?notif_id=1631755846883421¬if_t=page_fan&ref=notif

https://lakebluffbarbecuesociety.com/

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Skoo Walker and Peter Jansons cover the goings-on this weekend.

Lake Forest High School Scouts host Zion!

Chiefs is doing a shuttle to and from the game

A quick recap on the public comments from the school board meeting

Caucus needs your help! We need 1 Alderman for Ward 1 and 2 people for HPC please fill out this profile sheet if your interested! 

https://www.lakeforestschools.org/schools/lfhs/news/news-details/~post/week-3-football-home-game-vs-stevenson-20210909

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Reverend Luke Back from The Church of the Holy Spirit came on to Bless a special edition of "Art Class" on The Lake Forest Podcast with Arthur Miller, Skoo Walker, and Pete Jansons.

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https://www.chslf.org/content.cfm?id=149&pid=2973

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All the people that spoke up at the School Board meeting. 

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Pete Jansons "ran" into Phil Gayter the President of the Lake Forest /Lake Bluff Running Club 

Notes:

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Nancy Mieling and Sande Noble Co-Chairs of the Friends of Lake Forest Library Annual Book Sale came on the show to clue Skoo and Pete on the big book sale!!! They need Volunteers!!!

Shop the Friends Fall Book Sale September 16–19

Notes:

Day 1 Thursday all the good stuff! 20% upcharge and volunteers get to take part! 9am-4pm

Thursday, September 16

9:00 am–4:00 pm

Friday, September 17

9:00 am–8:00 pm

Saturday, September 18

9:00 am–4:00 pm

Sunday, September 19

9:00 am–5:00 pm

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Skoo Walker and Pete Jansons talk about the latest goings-on:

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Arthur Miller and Pete Jansons discuss the first Library Planning meeting. an orderly q/a was held Monday 8/30 with questions being placed in 3 "Buckets"

1) Cost

2) Process/Timing

3) Material/Methods

How Much will it cost? How long will it hold up? and will there be an "Overseer" of the entire project for accountability

We do not know where the original blueprints are for the Library?

Jane Addams Notes: Her Birthday is coming up 9-6

Jane Addams had close ties to early LF College, her brother-in-law an early staffer, and nephew an 1893 alum. She recruited here regularly for “residents” at Hull House, and in founding a Hull House clone in Philadelphia drew on a notable LF Univ. then alumna to start it up and do as she had done in Chicago.  Anna Freeman Davis, 1889, 1894 MA LFU. Etc. 

Also, her big backer with her uncle Hull’s house was real estate tycoon-ess, Helen Culver. In 1900 Culver bought the land for and built the first Waukegan Rd. Estate, her house still on Ash Lawn, west off Waukegan a couple of blocks north of Deerpath.  The house was designed by Pond & Pond, the architects at Hull House’s campus—probably much funded by Miss culver. J. Ogden Armour started buying land south in 1904, and A. Watson Armour at Elawa Farm a decade later.  

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