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The Lake Forest Podcast

The Lake Forest Podcast

著者： Pete Jansons
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Get to know Lake Forest Illinois by listening to conversations with its Residents, Business Owners, and City Government. Pull up a stool and witness where parody meets entertainment. Believe What you will as there are no fact checkers on this show. If you like what we do you can always buy us a beer https://www.patreon.com/LakeForestPodcastPete Jansons 社会科学
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  • "Erik Kramer Answered the Door": The Untold Stories of Dan Dorfman | Lake Forest Podcast

    "Erik Kramer Answered the Door": The Untold Stories of Dan Dorfman | Lake Forest Podcast
    2026/07/11
    🏈 1998. Dan Dorfman needs quotes on the Sanctuary annexation before deadline, so he drives into the complex and knocks on the first door with somebody home. Erik Kramer — the Bears' starting quarterback — answers. That's the job: knock on doors, get it right, file on time. Dan Dorfman has done it in three stretches going back to June 1998 — Pioneer Press, the Tribune, the New York Times' Chicago desk — from Jordan's comeback at the United Center to the Lake Forest Party insurgency to the Kiely years at City Hall. And this is his last week doing it. He's leaving journalism for the Water Reclamation District. Which is the question the whole hour circles: when the last reporter leaves the council chamber, who keeps the record? Dan says there "have been some discussions" about a successor. That's as far as he'll go. From there it's everywhere: a sitting mayor learning he'd been challenged when a reporter called his Arizona hotel, McGwire's 62nd home run announced from the back row of a council meeting off a transistor radio, the police station slipping from August to December, the Bears weighing Arlington Heights against Hammond — a dollar against five bucks — and a hedge fund buying the Daily Herald. Another reporter? A podcast? Or does the record just stop? We document. You decide. 🎙 Pete Jansons & Rick Lesser — with Dan Dorfman ⏱ TIMESTAMPS🎬 0:00 — "The last journalist in Lake County": the cold open🚨 0:29 — "I think we just got hacked": Dan arrives & "The Last Journalist in Lake County" kicks in (0:31)📰 1:10 — "We got the Dan Dorfman": Pioneer Press, the Tribune & how one byline runs in three papers🏢 2:25 — Tim Landon, David Hiller & the old Tribune days🎒 2:41 — South Side kid: Kenwood Academy to stringing for the New York Times🏀 5:25 — March '95: Jordan comes back & Dan talks his way into the United Center💻 7:13 — 1995: the internet cracks print📉 9:00 — Classifieds die & a hedge fund buys the Daily Herald🤖 10:51 — Rick retired to dodge AI; Dan on jobs & driverless trucks📱 12:02 — Headline readers & confirmation bias🗣️ 14:29 — Why good people won't run for office🧭 15:36 — Who's left covering local news?📺 17:01 — Fox, the Times, the BBC: looking for "down the middle"💸 19:29 — The original sin: giving the news away free🗳️ 20:43 — Nobody's covering the next mayor's race🏛️ 21:28 — 2023 echoes 1999: Tack, Beidler & the Lake Forest Party🏗️ 22:14 — The Municipal Services fight: Laurel & Western to Fort Sheridan☎️ 24:03 — Calling the mayor's Arizona hotel: "What's the emergency?"🚓 26:28 — The police station slips to December🏈 27:11 — Knock on a random door — Erik Kramer answers🏟️ 30:02 — Bears: Arlington Heights or Hammond? A dollar vs. five🏙️ 33:08 — Bob Kiely: three decades & a hard ending✍️ 36:51 — The one story he never got to write🎙️ 38:53 — Dan's advice to the podcast: do the pre-interviews⚾ 42:31 — Transistor radio at City Council: McGwire hits 62💧 44:15 — The pivot to water: MWRD & the deep tunnel🔮 47:20 — A successor on the beat? "There have been discussions"🎭 50:27 — Kenwood classmate: Brendan Hunt of Ted Lasso🏆 50:52 — The Caleb Durbin profile & an Illinois Press Association award🕯️ 51:57 — A year of goodbyes: Sandberg, Lovell, Redford & Ordinary People👋 52:35 — "We've got to do this again"🎵 53:09 — "Follow the Water (Dorfman's Last Byline)" (album track)📣 57:05 — A word from our sponsors🙏 59:19 — Our Patreon supporters — thank you 🎵 COMPANION ALBUM — "The Last Journalist"Original songs inspired by today's conversation. Two of them play right here in the episode:🎵 "The Last Journalist in Lake County" (0:31 — loud, then under the open)🎶 "Follow the Water (Dorfman's Last Byline)" (53:09) 🔗 LINKS & MORE▶ Support the show: patreon.com/lakeforestpodcast▶ Newsletter: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/s...▶ Substack (Rawthentic): https://petejansons.substack.com▶ Tips / press: pete@lakeforestpodcast.com▶ Lake Forest, IL (60045)
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  • America Turns 250, Rick Flees to France & the City Attorney Mystery | Lake Forest Podcast

    America Turns 250, Rick Flees to France & the City Attorney Mystery | Lake Forest Podcast
    2026/07/04
    🎆 Pete opens with a question nobody at city hall seems able to answer: who is the guy with the beard at the city council table? "That's the city attorney." What's he do? "He charges by the hour." Wait — get out of here.Rick Lesser pulls up for a Fourth of July special — on his way OUT of the country. That's right: America turns 250 and Rick's celebrating with our oldest ally, at Bastille Day, where all the cool kids hang out.Before he goes: everything happening this weekend in Lake Forest and Lake Bluff — the fireworks, the parade, movie night on the brand-new turf, and the mowers threatening to march in Taylor Swift wedding dresses.Plus: after all those years of cars underwater, is the viaduct flooding actually fixed?Has the pickleball bubble officially burst?And who IS Lake Forest's city attorney? Rick searches live on air. It does not go smoothly.A fond farewell to Dan Dorfman — and a 250th birthday song you will not hear anywhere else.We document. You decide.🎙 Pete Jansons — with Rick Lesser⏱ TIMESTAMPS🧔 0:00 — "He charges by the hour": the guy with the beard🇫🇷 0:28 — Rick's going to France: Bastille Day with our oldest ally🚂 1:31 — De Gaulle, the Chunnel, and Normandy🎆 2:31 — The Fourth in Lake Forest: 250 and counting🚜 3:48 — What will the mowers do? Taylor Swift wedding dresses🎬 4:13 — Movie night on the brand-new turf (and the end of beer jail)🌊 6:58 — Is the viaduct flooding finally FIXED?🎨 9:20 — The 250 mural over the Croyer✍️ 11:40 — Paris survival tips: don't sign the petitions⛪ 11:52 — Avignon: the time there were two popes🥒 14:54 — The pickleball bubble has burst (tulips, Apollo, and Achilles)🥐 18:42 — French food vs. London taste buds🛂 19:09 — Customs, TSA touchless, and "a GDP and a work ethic"🎇 21:39 — Fireworks advice from a Lake Bluff veteran🍽️ 23:56 — "Hey Rick, are you going to France?"📋 24:49 — Vendor scorecards and the Ansel Glink question🧔 25:38 — The beard guy, revisited🔎 28:00 — Rick searches for the city attorney, live ("wait, WHAT?")📰 29:30 — Farewell, Dan Dorfman — last journalist in Lake County🗽 33:30 — Happy 250th, America (semi-what-now?)🎵 33:52 — "Rick's in France (Happy 250)"🎵 COMPANION TRACK — "Rick's in France (Happy 250)"An original 250th birthday song for America — and a bon voyage for Rick. Plays right in the episode (33:52).🔗 LINKS & MORE▶ Support the show: patreon.com/lakeforestpodcast▶ The viaduct flooding episode from a few years back (cars up to their windows): • Who didn't Flip the Switch? - Check Yo' Tr... ▶ Substack (Rawthentic): https://petejansons.substack.com▶ Tips / press: pete@lakeforestpodcast.com▶ Lake Forest, IL (60045)
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    36 分
  • Ten Speeds and Sailboats: Rick Lesser on Civility, E-Bikes & the Right Address | Lake Forest Podcast

    Ten Speeds and Sailboats: Rick Lesser on Civility, E-Bikes & the Right Address | Lake Forest Podcast
    2026/06/27

    🚲 Pete's just trying to drive home when a guy on a ten-speed leans into the truck window and unloads — Elon, Trump, the tariffs, the war, inflation. Pete rolls down the window figuring he must've cut the guy off. Nope. Just another Tuesday on McKinley. Rick Lesser pulls up a few minutes later, and that run-in becomes the thread running through the whole show. What happened to civility? Why does nobody say "on your left" anymore? Are e-bikes really e-bikes — or are they motorcycles? And when did consequences quietly disappear? Then the conversation moves from bike paths to something bigger: whether the rules apply equally to everyone. The same meeting packet that re-adopts the rule limiting how much you can build also approves a variance for a lakefront estate to build beyond those limits — with a private tram to the beach. So are there limits? Or are there limits... unless you've got the right address? From there it's everywhere: Ragdale and Howard Van Doren Shaw, the Lake Forest zoo that somehow wound up in Tennessee, why two of downtown's biggest storefronts have sat empty for years, and why Lake Bluff keeps eating Lake Forest's lunch on sales tax. Retailer problem? Landlord problem? Or a Lake Forest problem? We document. You decide. 🎙 Pete Jansons — with Rick Lesser IN THIS EPISODE0:00 "You must be from Lake Bluff": the roadside run-in2:58 "Civility's been outlawed" — and the no-honk code3:40 "Those aren't e-bikes. Those are motorcycles."4:12 The Market Square squad car8:44 The 1912 mansion that wants a tram to its beach12:08 Same packet: the limits, the variance, "the right address"13:31 Ragdale, the artist colony, and the Prevailing Wage Act20:04 Lake Forest had a zoo — then it moved to Tennessee26:04 Two big downtown storefronts, empty for years34:00 Restaurant math, The Bear, and the Libertyville consultant43:01 Lake Bluff eats our lunch: sales tax vs. property tax46:11 "On Your Left" (album track)51:30 "The Right Address" (album closer) 🎵 Companion album: "Ten Speeds and Sailboats" — eight original songs inspired by today's conversation. 📝 We fix our record: Ragdale was designed and built (1896–97) by Howard Van Doren Shaw — who also designed Market Square — not the name guessed on air. The City of Lake Forest owns it; the Ragdale Foundation runs it. Support the show: patreon.com/lakeforestpodcastNewsletter: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/jmul1Df/lakeforestpodcastsignupSubstack (Rawthentic): https://petejansons.substack.comTips / press: pete@lakeforestpodcast.comLake Forest, IL (60045)
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    55 分
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