Charles Selle – Page 27

Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico are lined up for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Tex. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Column: Angry e-mails, texts show the collective frustration over border crisis

April 9, 2024 at 4:28 p.m.

Many, many readers -- quite a few from the last crimson strongholds in Prussian-blue Illinois -- refuse to acknowledge that it is rare, indeed, that noncitizens vote in federal elections.

Customers are greeted by this wall displaying scores of products shortly after they enter the Ivy Hall cannabis dispensary in Waukegan. (Steve Sadin/Lake County News-Sun)

Column: Pot shops popping up in Lake County

April 3, 2024 at 11:43 a.m.

“The Village of Country Living,” as it’s known locally, is in line for two recreational marijuana dispensaries.

The Soldier Field South Lot on Dec. 5, 2023. A newly proposed stadium would be in the area of Waldron Drive, just south of the Bears’ current home at Soldier Field. The project would include open plazas, paths and landscaping, with access to the lakefront, and could include saving the Soldier Field colonnade in honor of veterans. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Column: Site for new Bears stadium racing to a dizzying end

April 1, 2024 at 11:12 a.m.

There’s been more spinning of where the team wants to locate -- the former racetrack and its 326 acres off Northwest Highway or staying in Chicago -- than in "Vertigo,"...

A Brood X cicada on a tree in Kickapoo State Recreation area near Danville on June 10, 2021. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Frightful omens are warning signs bad news is coming

March 27, 2024 at 6:42 p.m.

With Easter, the holiest day in Christendom, a few days away, perhaps it’s time to start praying early. There are omens The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are stalking us....

Voting tactic back in play for Round Lake Area library

March 25, 2024 at 2:02 p.m.

Round Lake area voters should expect Groundhog Day to be in their future with the same election question on their ballots after one official called for another library referendum or...

Early voting turnout was less this year than in the 2020 presidential primary. (Steve Sadin/Lake County News-Sun)

Column: Low voter turnout Tuesday was a sad commentary on the state of our democracy

March 20, 2024 at 10:07 a.m.

Either Democrat or Republican, pickings were slim this election.

Column: Indictments against Lake County elected officials are rare

March 18, 2024 at 8:46 a.m.

The indictments of Waukegan City Clerk Janet Kilkelly and North Chicago 2nd Ward Ald. Anthony Coleman come on the heels of the probationary sentence handed out a week before to...

Former state Sen. Terry Link leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse after being on the witness stand in the federal bribery trial of businessman James Weiss on Monday, June 12, 2023. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Column: Former Sen. Link joins parade of state Democrats caught in federal trap

March 11, 2024 at 11:12 a.m.

Link now has a place in the long line of Democratic officials -- from Chicago aldermen, to state legislators, to governors -- who have been snared by federal corruption probes.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump talks with Maj. Gen. Thomas Suelzer, Adjutant General for the State of Texas, at Shelby Park during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Column: Sorry Donald, but voting road for migrants takes years, not months

March 11, 2024 at 11:54 a.m.

Although President Biden, 81, was at the southern border last week hearing about the migrant crisis, he wasn’t handing out voting cards and ballots.

Outside the world headquarters of Walgreens Boots Alliance in Deerfield. One-third of the campus is under-contract to be sold for residential development.

Column: Houses ace out industrial sprawl of warehouse districts

March 4, 2024 at 10:39 a.m.

According to commercial real estate experts, 70 large warehouses were built in Chicagoland last year, eclipsing records set in 2021 and 2022. Can vertical warehouses be far behind?

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