🍺 Last call. After years as downtown Lake Bluff's best gathering spot, Lake Bluff Brewing pours its final Honey Badger this weekend — the lease is up, the building sold, and someone new is moving in. We get into what happened, who might be taking the space, and why this keeps happening to good local businesses.From there it's a full table: the travel-insurance wake-up call behind Officer Czarnecki's trip home, the Scouts' freshman-QB pipeline, the new Ryan Field ($1B, and somehow smaller), $16 beers at Wrigley, the Highwood teardown that "feels like Vernon Hills," and a hometown kid recording his first NFL sack — in the Super Bowl. Plus the one that matters: with no local paper left, the caucus had to send a correction because this show started asking. If not us, who?🎙️ Pete Jansons — with Rick Lesser, Jeff Urso & Skoo Walker⏱️ WHAT WE GET INTO🍺 0:00 — Last call: Lake Bluff Brewing's final weekend☕ 2:19 — Skoo's back: the art fair & the world's thinnest book🚔 3:11 — Officer Czarnecki makes it home from Nicaragua✈️ 3:58 — The travel-insurance lesson (and long-term care at $10K/mo)🏈 10:30 — Zion week, NFL kickoff & Rick's Wonder Dog trophy🎯 12:19 — The freshman-QB phenom & the Scouts feeder pipeline⭐ 15:21 — Brock Williams (Texas commit) at Varsity Field Thursday🎒 16:07 — The Lake Forest bug-out bag & "making love in a canoe"🏖️ 17:52 — Beach walkway & the biting flies🏚️ 19:29 — The full Lake Bluff Brewing story: lease, sale & the landlord's "vision"📉 23:44 — Craft beer is dying: Duffers, 9 taps down to 2-3🎉 24:29 — Red wagons & why Lake Bluff's loose liquor hurts business🥃 26:47 — Highwood update: Ted Bannock, Howard & the Silver Dollar🏙️ 28:46 — "Vernon Hills between Highland Park and Lake Forest"🏟️ 30:15 — Rylie Mills' Super Bowl sack & Kai Kroeger, Houston's punter📱 32:30 — TikTok, 350K views & Joe Nestle🏗️ 33:48 — New Ryan Field: $1B, 47K → 35K, roof over the fans not the players🎟️ 35:24 — Suites, the little guy & the $16 Wrigley beer💸 38:11 — What a family of four really drops (+ the $600 "Lake Forest Uber")⚾ 42:42 — New White Sox park renderings & the Reinsdorf question🎨 44:23 — The art fair, Mark McMahon & "I've never heard a Kanye song"📰 46:46 — "You're the new blotter": what Lake Forest wants for news🗳️ 48:43 — The caucus, the mayor's race & "if not us, who?"✍️ 50:59 — 400 signatures: could Pete really run for mayor?🚁 53:26 — The Glenview drone & recent Highwood shootings🍕 55:47 — The Sopranos pizza-order bust⛈️ 56:25 — The Thor storm siren & a Max Velocity shout-out🚸 59:33 — Jeff's Shields legacy: speed humps & crossing guards🛑 1:01:14 — Knollwood, the sanctuary & the Lake Bluff IGA🏆 1:04:18 — Libertyville vs. Lake Forest preview + score prediction🔗 UPDATES & LINKS▶ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@lakeforestpodcast▶ Visit: https://www.lakeforestpodcast.com▶ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lakeforestpodcast▶ Newsletter: https://petejansons.substack.comThe Lake Forest Podcast — Not news. Just neighbors. We document. You decide.#LakeForestPodcast #LakeForestIL #LakeBluffIL #LakeBluffBrewing #Highwood #NorthShore #RylieMills #LakeForestFootball #60045