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Police secure the scene of a shooting in the 600 Block of W. Nippersink Road in Round Lake on Tuesday, Dec. 11.

Pregnant woman critically wounded in Round Lake shooting, authorities say

May 24, 2019 at 12:39 a.m.

A pregnant woman was shot and critically wounded Tuesday afternoon in Round Lake, according to authorities. At about 2 p.m., Round Lake Beach police responded to a call of a...

Sears to close stores in Gurnee Mills, Hawthorn Mall

May 24, 2019 at 12:23 a.m.

Sears was one of the original tenants when Gurnee Mills opened for business in August 1991, but Gurnee Mayor Kristina Kovarik said she wasn’t surprised when Sears Holdings announced Thursday...

Waukegan Richard Hyde in 2004. Hyde died on Thursday, April 5, at age 90.

‘Everyone knew his love for Waukegan’: City mourns former Mayor Richard Hyde

May 24, 2019 at 12:19 a.m.

Richard Hyde, a longtime Waukegan school official and alderman who served for seven years as mayor in the 2000s, died Thursday at age 90 after an illness, according to a...

Gurnee school district apologizes for ‘Hitler cartoon’ assignment

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

Gurnee's Woodland District 50 apologized Thursday afternoon after an assignment asking students to draw a cartoon about Europe's appeasement policy leading up to World War II was thought to be...

One improvement project planned by Lake County for 2018 will be the Quentin Road reconstruction and widening improvements in Lake Zurich aimed at reducing congestion between White Pine Road to just south of Route 22, pictured here on Nov. 14.

Lake County transportation projects face ‘big unknowns’ due to state budget

May 24, 2019 at 12:11 a.m.

The state budget approved this summer could mean a $32 million hit to Lake County transportation projects next year, county officials said. Some confusion remains, though, over whether those cuts...

District 128 watchdog speaks out in court on perjury charges against school officials

May 10, 2019 at 11:11 p.m.

A watchdog of the Libertyville-Vernon Hills Community High School District School Board said during a Lake County Circuit Court hearing Tuesday that officials connected to election-related perjury charges should recuse...

Waukegan almost sealed off from county by flooding on east-west roadways

May 24, 2019 at 12:02 a.m.

A washing machine is floating in Daniel Ortiz's basement. The Waukegan resident knows he probably lost some keepsakes, like a camcorder with videos of his kids on it, and will...

Ellen Mauer in a photo posted among board members at Community High School District 128's website.

District 128 board member, secretary indicted on election-related perjury charges

May 23, 2019 at 11:59 p.m.

A Community High School District 128 board member and an administrative secretary were indicted Wednesday on perjury charges related to the circulation of election nominating papers, according to Lake County...

Crash on Route 120 in Lakemoor leaves one woman dead

May 23, 2019 at 11:59 p.m.

A crash on Route 120 left a 46-year-old Round Lake Beach woman dead Monday, the Lake County coroner said. Traffic in the area was snarled for hours in all directions...

Cheryl Besenja, the executive director of the nonprofit Growing Healthy People, shows the roots of the plants growing in a recently installed aeroponic system at Thomas Jefferson Middle School's greenhouse.

Waukegan middle school’s greenhouse upgrade is ‘feeding hungry kids’

May 23, 2019 at 11:59 p.m.

The tiny greens tasted a little like mint, one of the Thomas Jefferson Middle School sixth-graders said. As members of the science club, they had helped grow the plants on...

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