The Lake Forest Podcast

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Rick Amos Board Member of Lake Forest Illinois Friends of Parks and Recreation comes on the Lake Forest Podcast to clue in everyone on all the events on July 4 in lake Forest https://lfparksandrec.com/lake-forest-festival-and-fireworks

Main Show: https://youtu.be/S205gmOhHJI

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Rick Lesser gives the low down on whats going on for the 4th of July Parade in Lake Bluff Illinois

4th of July Main Show with Rick Amos: https://youtu.be/S205gmOhHJI

#lakeforestpodcast #lakeforestillinois #centralbusinessdistrict Main Clip: https://youtu.be/VFLY3rcY6es

Former Mayor Of lake Forest Illinois George Pandaleon Came on the Lake Forest Illinois Podcast with Joe Weiss, Rick Lesser and Pete Jansons to discuss his challenging two terms in office as well as give his thoughts on the Lake Forest Illinois Central Business District and the issue with the empty store fronts @EnjoyLakeForest

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Main Episode https://youtu.be/4rB_HGGoiYQ from 2021 Throwback

David A. F. Sweet came on the show to tell us how he struck out Skoo Walker in Little League, as well as talk about his latest book Three Seconds in Munich: The Controversial 1972 Olympic Basketball Final. David also let us know that he is also writing for a cool blog for the city of Lake Forest called Lake Forest Love In this short Dave tells us his favorite places to eat in Lake Forest Illinois

David's Books:

Three Seconds in Munich: The Controversial 1972 Olympic Basketball Final

Lamar Hunt: The Gentle Giant Who Revolutionized Professional Sports

David's article "LFHS Sailors Ready for National Championship Quest" from Lake Forest Love he mentioned on the show

David's article "Book by Lake Forest Native Sheds New Light on Bernie Madoff's Ponzi Scheme"

David's Bio:

David A. F. Sweet has written about sports since 1990. "Three Seconds in Munich: The Controversial 1972 Olympic Basketball Final" is his second book. "Lamar Hunt: The Gentle Giant Who Revolutionized Professional Sports" was his first. He worked as a reporter and columnist for WSJ.com at Dow Jones headquarters in New York City, and he launched the "Nothing but Net" column about the business of sports on the Web there in 1998. He inaugurated the "SportsBiz Spotlight" column for NBCSports.com in 2007. His work has also appeared in Sports Business Journal, the Los Angeles Times and other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or can be followed on Twitter @davidafsweet

Ideas for a guest or topic? [email protected]

#lakeforestpodcast #lakeforestillinois #lakeforestontopic #davidsweet #sundayfunday David A. F. Sweet came on the show to tell us how he struck out Skoo Walker in Little League, as well as talk about his latest book Three Seconds in Munich: The Controversial 1972 Olympic Basketball Final. David also let us know that he is also writing for a cool blog for the city of Lake Forest called Lake Forest Love

David's Books:

Three Seconds in Munich: The Controversial 1972 Olympic Basketball Final

Lamar Hunt: The Gentle Giant Who Revolutionized Professional Sports

David's article "LFHS Sailors Ready for National Championship Quest" from Lake Forest Love he mentioned on the show

David's article "Book by Lake Forest Native Sheds New Light on Bernie Madoff's Ponzi Scheme"

David's Bio:

David A. F. Sweet has written about sports since 1990. "Three Seconds in Munich: The Controversial 1972 Olympic Basketball Final" is his second book. "Lamar Hunt: The Gentle Giant Who Revolutionized Professional Sports" was his first. He worked as a reporter and columnist for WSJ.com at Dow Jones headquarters in New York City, and he launched the "Nothing but Net" column about the business of sports on the Web there in 1998. He inaugurated the "SportsBiz Spotlight" column for NBCSports.com in 2007. His work has also appeared in Sports Business Journal, the Los Angeles Times and other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or can be followed on Twitter @davidafsweet

Ideas for a guest or topic? [email protected]

#lakeforestpodcast #lakeforestillinois #shorts #centralbusinessdistrict

Main Show: https://youtu.be/VFLY3rcY6es

Former Mayor George Pandaleon comes on the Lake Forest Illinois Podcast with Joe Weiss, Rick Lesser and Pete Jansons to discuss his thoughts On Lake Forest Illinois. In this short clip Mayor George talks about the Central Business District of Lake Forest Illinois. What is it and where is it?

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Main Show: https://youtu.be/VFLY3rcY6es

Former Mayor George Pandaleon comes on the Lake Forest Illinois Podcast with Joe Weiss, Rick Lesser and Pete Jansons to discuss his thoughts On Lake Forest Illinois. In this short clip Mayor George talks about why people move to Lake Forest Illinois

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Former Mayor Of lake Forest Illinois George Pandaleon Come on the Lake Forest Illinois Podcast with Joe Weiss, Rick Lesser and Pete Jansons to discuss his challenging two terms in office as well as give his thoughts on the Lake Forest Illinois Central Business District

0:001:56 Show Start

2:30 Challenging Terms For George Pandaleon

6:08 4 S's

8:08 Kudos to George on his time in office as Mayor of Lake Forest Illinois

8:38 BLM Explanation

9:26 Let them Speak

10:19 Mayor Leon Rockingham

10:54 City Manager Jason Wicha and Mayor George Pandaleon ICMA.org Relationship

11:36 Corporate Structure City Council of Lake Forest Illinois

11:55 City Council is Board of Directors

16:47 Lake Forest City Council all Volunteers

20:00 Central Business District of Lake Forest Illinois

21:35 Banks in Lake Forest Story

23:55 Swimming Facilities

25:40 Curate the tenants

27:10 People Forget Concept

28:50 Bog Down Process

29:20 Unintended consequences of preserving dead buildings

35:18 Parking

36:39 Lot behind City Hall

38:57 Comprehensive plan parking

40:10 CBD Acronym Weed

41:08 What is the Central Business District

42:36 Central Business District of Lake Forest Illinois Issues

46:05 Levers to pull to make it worthwhile to Small Business Owner TIFF

48:04 Barriers to change parking and old buildings

48:45 Post Office

50:38 Le Colonial of Lake Forest Illinois

52:10 Blue Awning

52:49 3rd issue replace buildings that cannot be rehabbed

54:00 Pick a year to freeze Lake Forest Illinois in Time

54:29 Trust in the process Some builders won't come any where near Lake Forest because of the Obstacles to build there

55:00 HPC 17 Standards George Pandaleon was on board that created them

56:00 George in retrospect of the 17 standards

56:50 Design from the Dayus

57:17 Committees should not be telling a house owner what color to paint something

58:35 Process to Become Mayor of Lake Forest Illinois

59:40 Gorton Center Bankruptcy story

1:01:10 HPC Historical Preservation Commission Agenda all depends on the people on the board

1:02:00 Reduce the amount of people on the Lake Forest Illinois Caucus Committee

1:03:20 Caucus falls into trap on only picking people for boards with expertise

1:04:40 The Power the Mayor of Lake Forest Illinois Does Have

1:05:00 is 9 per ward the right amount to represent each ward in the caucus committee

1:07:23 Need More Volunteers on Caucus

1:08:34 Dilemma of term limits

1:10:00 Advisory board share the info

1:13:00 Ex Mayor Club Committee

1:14:00 How do we get more Government to be transparent like Holly Kim Treasurer of Lake County

1:15:30 No one is watching the recordings of City Council Meetings

1:16:20 No Lake Forest Illinois Twitter Account

1:19:00 Losers of elections delegitimize the winners and scares away volunteers

1:21:00 Legal Fees

1:20:00 The Anti Change Groups

1:23:33 What did Pete get wrong that George wants to call him out on

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Vince Vaughn is back home to Lake Forest Illinois to say hi and pitch in at the Gorton Center. We'd love to have him come on to do a quick Zoom Call and say hi to his hometown peeps  @gortoncenter 

Vince email: [email protected] to set it up we are sooo excited!

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Joe Weiss, Rick Lesser and Pete Jansons discuss the news and events going on in Lake Forest Illinois in this short clip they chat about the issue of subsidies for business owners who gets what and why

main clip:

https://youtu.be/jUqjq3E0Mmo