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Traffic moves toward the dead end of northbound Route 53 at Lake Cook Road in 2015. That dead-end apparently will be a permanent part of the landscape after the Illinois Tollway stepped back from extending the road.

Moran: As Route 53 opponents celebrate its apparent demise, Lake County prepares to pay for transportation reality

July 16, 2019 at 3:14 p.m.

Movie moments came to mind last Friday when the Illinois Tollway announced that it "not in a position to lead the development" of the Route 53 extension into Lake County,...

Members of the State Conservation Police and the Wildlife Discovery Center in Lake Forest search for an alligator in the Humboldt Park lagoon on Wednesday in Chicago.

Moran: Searchers for Chicago’s Humboldt Park alligator include Lake Forest crew that took in Waukegan Harbor gator

July 12, 2019 at 1:47 p.m.

Waukeganites were the least surprised observers on the planet when word spread far and wide this week about an apparent alligator poking its eyes and snout out of Chicago's Humboldt...

Traffic backs up on Route 176 in Lake Bluff at the entrance to northbound Route 41, which takes traffic down a residential/commercial street. The state has pledged $61 million toward reconstructing the intersection.

Moran: State’s capital bill includes big dollars to bring Route 41/176 interchange ‘into the 21st century’

July 9, 2019 at 3:26 p.m.

In the middle of an hour-plus and often emotional debate Tuesday morning over whether or not to limit video gambling in Lake County's unincorporated areas, it was pointed out that...

Can you picture a casino on this parking lot in Waukegan? The city isn't eliminating the thought, as it included the site on a list of parcels to be considered by developers.

Moran: Waukegan’s request for casino bids includes different location concepts, possible ‘temporary’ facility

July 5, 2019 at 5:07 p.m.

Back in the earliest years of the Big '80s, I took a trip with a friend and his family to the Wisconsin Dells, where we saw usual sights like The...

Maxx Force proceeds through a double inversion 175 feet above Six Flags Great America on July 2, 2019.

Moran: Maxx Force brings a sonic boom to the Great America landscape

July 2, 2019 at 2:59 p.m.

Joining the rattle of chains and wooden slats as the American Eagle climbs to the top of its lift hill and the shriek that accompanies the launch of Vertical Velocity,...

The debate will go on as to whether or not Lake County should enact a local gas tax.

Moran: Property tax relief? Residents fleeing for the border? Debate begins about possibility of Lake County gas tax

June 29, 2019 at 9:08 a.m.

It was described as a meeting "just to start a conversation" on the concept of a Lake County Motor Fuel Tax. It would appear that this conversation will be as...

Legislation approved by the General Assembly and awaiting the governor's pen would allow Lake and Will counties to enact a local gasoline tax of up to 8 cents per gallon to fund transportation projects.

Moran: After Springfield gives a green light, Lake County looking at local gas tax for transportation improvements

June 25, 2019 at 1:39 p.m.

Come Monday, it'll be all right, or so Jimmy Buffet once assured us. But come this Monday, there will be much in the way of grumbling when the 19-cent increase...

Moran: Variety is the spice in Lake County’s updated five-year road plan

June 21, 2019 at 1:39 p.m.

Buffalo Grove Road is in line to be widened in the absence of a Route 53 extension, left-turn relief is on the clock for Route 41 traffic to Gurnee Mills...

Westbound traffic on Grand Avenue backs up in the single lane beneath a temporary Union Pacific Railroad bridge at Route 41 on Tuesday, June 18. It looks like that single lane will be in place into next year.

Moran: Construction of railroad bridge over Grand Avenue in Gurnee extends into 2020

June 19, 2019 at 10:50 a.m.

It would appear that motorists dealing with the construction of a new Union Pacific Railroad bridge over Grand Avenue in Gurnee are begging for mercy -- and that salvation might...

LGBTQ pride flags have been placed on lamp posts up and down Genesee Street in Waukegan in anticipation of PrideWauk, the city's first commemoration of LGBTQ Pride Month.

Moran: Waukegan makes ‘such a powerful statement’ by hosting first celebration of LGBTQ Pride Month

June 14, 2019 at 3:04 p.m.

The same week that the Trump administration announced that LGBTQ pride flags could not be flown outside U.S. embassies, the city of Waukegan unfurled a rainbow flag outside City Hall....

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