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Casa el Sueño (“The Dream House”), as a plaque out front declares it, is at the northern end of Los Cerritos’ Pacific Avenue before the street T-bones into Country Club Drive. Pacific is a wide and quiet avenue at this point, lined by super-tall palms and eucalyptus trees and elegant estates. The money in this neighborhood is old money, passed down from 1930s oil families, doctors, bankers and senior law partners. - ADVERTISEMENT - Casa el Sueño, at 4282 Pacific Ave., was built by famed Pacific Northwest architect Kirtland Cutter, who designed scores of buildings and residents in the ...

Game Changers × Photo by Erin Nelson. Jackson Bullock balances on a peanut ball as he matches the color and shape sequence using blocks during an occupational therapy session with Rebecca Cupps at Alabama Game Changers in Riverchase on March 1. × Photo by Erin Nelson. Justin Medley moves on a swing as he throws magnetic darts at a target during an occupational therapy session with Becca Wood at Alabama Game Changers in Riverchase on March 1. The Morris Center at Alabama Game Changers has a program based on the developmental hierarchy of the brain to help neurons in the b...

The Rose Park Historic District is laid out in the traditional manner, with a grid of north-south avenues and east-west streets lined with palms, elms and magnolia trees. It’s a long and narrow neighborhood bordered roughly by the alley north of Seventh Street and 10th Street between St. Louis Street and a strip just west of Redondo Avenue. The ordered layout is broken only by the neighborhood’s eponymous circular park with a traffic roundabout at Eighth Street and Orizaba Avenue. - ADVERTISEMENT - The neighborhood is one of the oldest in the city, with development of the area starting in...

After removal, communities must face the enormous challenge of remaking divisive public spaces into places that promote healing and reconciliation. We suggest that communities confronting these issues and seeking a way forward look at the recent experience in the city of Memphis. As part of a national, multicity effort, a collaboration of public and non-profit partners in Memphis has transformed a six-city block area adjacent to downtown and the Mississippi River called the Fourth Bluff into a series of connected, vibrant and dynamic spaces that include a library, a trail and two parks. This ...

Reply Sunrise Beach, Lake Bluff The North Shore Water Reclamation District (NSWRD) Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the completion of the Lake Bluff Sunrise Beach revetment project. Due to the excellent work of John Keno & Co. the project was accomplished is a timely fashion with little or no disruption to neighboring residents or visitors. Tom Swarthout, Ward 4 Trustee (Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, and North Chicago), worked closely with the Village, the Park District, and the contractor to ensure the success of this major undertaking that will protect Lake Bluff's valuable community as...