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The hearse bearing Illinois State Trooper Gerald Ellis of Antioch turns onto Route 83 in Lake Villa near the end of its 20-mile journey around northern Lake County on Friday, April 5.

Moran: Tribute for fallen Trooper Gerald Ellis rolls down a remarkably quiet Tri-State Tollway

May 24, 2019 at 12:48 a.m.

At 12:20 p.m. Friday, a nearly complete silence fell across the northeast end of the College of Lake County campus in Grayslake as Illinois State Police Trooper Gerald “Jerry” Ellis’...

Traffic starts to back up on westbound Belvidere Road at Knight Avenue in Park City, where lane reductions for a revived construction zone near Fountain Square of Waukegan began the week of April 1.

Moran: Bridge work in Waukegan and Fox Lake becomes a recurring theme

May 24, 2019 at 12:48 a.m.

If there is one thing to be celebrated about winter in a northern climate, it is that dogs generally take a break from their relationship with mud. Cat owners can’t...

Some 29 projects are included in the Lake County Division of Transportation's $134 million construction program for 2019, including the widening of Quentin Road south of Route 22, shown here.

Moran: Lake County’s $134 million 2019 road plan includes upgrades both large and small

May 24, 2019 at 12:47 a.m.

The earth is moving — big, muddy, chunky clumps of earth — along Quentin Road south of Lake Zurich, where excavation crews are clearing out space for what will be...

Moran: IDOT expects bang for its buck during distracted driving crackdown

March 19, 2019 at 3:26 p.m.

Back in the early teens, or whatever it is we end up calling this decade, a young colleague who shall remain anonymous was brutally honest about what was then a...

Fans of Waukegan Harbor — including boaters, anglers and anyone else who enjoys a fair-weather day along the Lake Michigan shore — should support restoration efforts designed to address current issues and avoid future problems.

Moran: Fans of a cleaner Lake Michigan, bigger beaches should root for Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

March 15, 2019 at 11:12 a.m.

In what seems to be shaping up as an annual and unwelcome occurrence in the current political climate, the Trump administration is again looking to slash funding for the Great...

Moran: The new transportation trend of flashing yellow arrows coming in 2020 to Butterfield Road

March 12, 2019 at 1:21 p.m.

A few summers ago during a weekend in Michigan, an exotic if not completely indecipherable sight appeared at a signalized intersection: A flashing red arrow. The Flatlander brain was tested....

Once temperatures rose above the single digits during the first week of March, construction crews were active in winter-like conditions at the intersection of Wilson and Nippersink roads.

Moran: March comes in like a frozen lion, but road projects press onward and upward

March 8, 2019 at 11:50 a.m.

As the 20th century philosopher John Belushi once reminded us, March doesn’t always come in like a lion and go out like a lamb. “There are nine different countries,” he...

Author Ray Bradbury leans against the sign of a park named in his honor in June 1990 along a ravine near his childhood home in Waukegan.

Moran: Literary Landmark status coming to Ray Bradbury Park and its storied ravine

May 24, 2019 at 12:45 a.m.

Ray Bradbury himself told the tale of how he climbed an oak in the Waukegan Ravine as a 12-year-old boy to stuff a note to his future self deep inside...

Dredging equipment hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seen just off Waukegan Municipal Beach in May 2015, an example of routine work performed to remove excess sand from clogging the nearby harbor entrance.

Moran: Feds plan to share Waukegan’s excess sand with 6 North Shore beaches

March 1, 2019 at 1:16 p.m.

Eyes might have rolled this week when reading Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham’s dream-big comment about turning the city’s Municipal Beach into a “northern Navy Pier.” As observed here before, when...

Moran: Motorists flood the polls to nominate the worst potholes in Lake County

February 26, 2019 at 2:17 p.m.

Just after the clock struck midnight Saturday, it was 42 degrees and a light drizzle was falling in Waukegan, wrapping up a day in which slightly more than an inch...

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