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Glenn Close accepts Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Leading Role for "The Wife" during the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 27, one of several pre-Oscar honors she's picked up for the role.

Moran: Your annual Oscar picks, regardless of whether we can pick Olivia Colman out of a lineup

May 24, 2019 at 12:44 a.m.

At the mid-century mark of life, those of us raised by the glowing box in our family rooms can form most of our worldview based on quotes from “Saturday Night...

Traffic on Route 120 at Route 83 in Grayslake, shown here in 2017, is among the conundrums faced by Lake County officials as they await a capital plan out of Springfield to improve state roadways.

Moran: State roads like Route 120 wait to see if Springfield will deliver salvation

February 19, 2019 at 1:51 p.m.

Major employers don’t want to set up shop in traffic-clogged western Lake County, Route 120 is still a mess and DuPage County’s decision to grab a bigger gas tax 30...

Red-light cameras for Grand Avenue traffic at Hunt Club Road in Gurnee will be taken down for intersection construction this spring, and their long-term future is an open question.

Moran: Will the red-light cameras at Grand Avenue and Hunt Club Road join the list of extinct species?

February 15, 2019 at 1:07 p.m.

If you are among the untold millions who feel a cold chill of dread as you approach a red-light camera intersection on a stale green light with an SUV bearing...

The view east from Waukegan Harbor's "lighthouse pier" takes in the marina and the Waukegan Yacht Club.

Moran: Waukegan’s popular ‘lighthouse pier’ lined up for an extreme makeover

February 13, 2019 at 8:45 a.m.

From the boat launch all the way out to the lighthouse, Waukegan Harbor’s south pier — known bureaucratically as the “government pier,” but to locals as the “lighthouse pier” —...

Maxx Force, currently under construction near the Carousel Plaza entrance of Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, is scheduled to open in early summer.

Moran: Great America ‘absolutely’ looking to set records as Maxx Force aims for early-summer debut

February 8, 2019 at 2:33 p.m.

Hurricane Harbor was a frozen collection of ponds on an 8-degree Friday morning as Six Flags Great America officials gathered with regional media to provide a construction update on Maxx...

Construction is expected to start this year on adding turn lanes at Grand Avenue and Hunt Club Road, an intersection that witnessed 217 crashes between 2010 and 2014.

Moran: Work could start in May to add turn lanes at Grand Avenue and Hunt Club Road in Gurnee

February 5, 2019 at 4:06 p.m.

A colleague who has to navigate the Gurnee Mills corridor down Grand Avenue on a regular basis reacted with a grimace when advised that momentum is building toward a $5...

An ice-clogged Waukegan Harbor was among the sights seen as this week's arctic outbreak swept into Lake County.

Column: A solid-as-ice ranking of the coldest snaps in Chicago’s history

February 1, 2019 at 8:25 p.m.

It is both surprising and terrifying to learn that, after this week’s furious cold snap was in the books, your lifetime has now witnessed all of the top 10 Longest...

A Pace bus stop along Washington Street in Waukegan is all but glaciated more than 24 hours after 7 inches of snow fell across the city on Jan. 27-28.

Moran: Nature reclaims even shoveled sidewalks as brutal wind builds up steam

January 29, 2019 at 2:25 p.m.

Two restaurant workers bundled against Tuesday morning’s balmy 5 degrees hacked away at glaciated snow along the corner of Grand Avenue and Sheridan Road in Waukegan, carving a path for...

Lake County awoke to a classic deep freeze on Friday, Jan. 25, with predawn temperatures in the minus-8 to minus-10 range.

Moran: Lake County schools scramble to deal with ‘the coldest air mass in years’

May 24, 2019 at 12:42 a.m.

The alert arrived in 21st-century fashion via text Thursday evening: School would start two hours later than usual on Friday “due to inclement weather.” Not exactly dramatic. The phrase “inclement...

"Automated speed enforcement" is among the approaches recommended by a recent Governors Highway Safety Association report to cut down on roadway fatalities involving excessive speed.

Moran: A critical eye focuses on America’s ‘culturally acceptable’ practice of speeding

January 22, 2019 at 1:23 p.m.

Last week, with fanfare that can be described as none, the Lake County Board went about the routine business of lowering posted speed limits in two quiet corners of the...

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