The fireworks over Deerpath Community Park tend to feel like a finish line. They aren't. For anyone who actually lives here, the calendar between July 5 and Lake Forest Day is the densest stretch of the summer, and this year it got denser.
The reason is small and easy to miss. The Thursday-night downtown routine most residents have been running for years quietly doubled in footprint, a west-side weeknight economy at Elawa Farm now runs parallel to it, and two dining rooms locals kept driving past under scaffolding have finally opened. The point of this post is that the second half of a Lake Forest summer is no longer a wind-down. It is the part you plan around.
The Thursday that got bigger
The anchor is the same one it has been.
