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An ambulance arrives at Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan in 2019.

Waukegan-based Vista Health System operations to continue uninterrupted despite parent company’s bankruptcy filing

April 23, 2020 at 2:37 p.m.

Operations at Waukegan's only full-service hospital will continue uninterrupted as Vista Health System's parent company restructures its debt as part of federal bankruptcy proceedings, Vista Health System's CEO said this...

A ‘second home’ to some, the College of Lake County theater program turns 50

April 23, 2020 at 8:24 a.m.

The College of Lake County put on its first theater performance 50 years ago – a time when the college was in its first-ever academic year, when the classes were...

Graduates participate in a commencement ceremony at the College of Lake County. This spring's graduation ceremony has been postponed to December because of the coronavirus pandemic.

College of Lake County reschedules graduation to December; school districts consider coronavirus-related changes

April 22, 2020 at 4:59 p.m.

As the College of Lake County announced its graduation ceremonies will be pushed back to December, high schools across the county are assessing their own options. Some like Warren Township...

‘It’s time to mask up’: Waukegan joins other suburbs in requiring face coverings in public businesses

April 23, 2020 at 7:15 a.m.

The city of Waukegan is the latest Chicago suburb to require face coverings in its businesses and other public places. Mayor Sam Cunningham signed the emergency order Wednesday and the...

Inmates work on an art project in in one of the pods at the Waukegan-based Lake County jail in June 2019. Concerns about the novel coronavirus spreading in the jail has shut down outside programming.

Lake County jail inmate tests positive for novel coronavirus

April 21, 2020 at 3:18 p.m.

An inmate in the Lake County jail tested positive for the novel coronavirus Friday, the Lake County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday. The announcement marks the first time someone has tested...

The Wauconda Care health and rehabilitation center on Thomas Court in Wauconda is one of 20 Lake County nursing homes to have a known COVID-19 cluster. The facility had 33 confirmed cases of the virus, and six deaths, the highest number in Lake County, according to state data.

State identifies 20 nursing homes in Lake County with coronavirus clusters

April 21, 2020 at 7:17 a.m.

The first confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus at the Wauconda Care nursing home were among employees, but staff knew it was just a matter of time before it was...

Former Lake County NAACP chapter president, Waukegan alderman dies at age of 90

April 20, 2020 at 7:11 a.m.

With the civil rights movement at its height, but a planned protest blocked by the city from moving forward, Frank Harris Jr. jumped into another parade already underway, joining Waukegan...

Workers raise the side of their first of the three tents they are installing for COVID-19 patients at Vista Medical Center. Vista Hospital staff, under the guidance of staff from the International Medical Corps build three tents in the hospital's parking lot, giving them 32 extra beds for COVID-19 pandemic, Friday, April 17, 2020.

Waukegan’s Vista Medical Center East to receive emergency medical field unit to fight coronavirus

April 20, 2020 at 7:10 a.m.

The tents outside Vista Medical Center East will have heat, plumbing and even floors — an emergency medical field unit that the Waukegan hospital plans on using to triage and...

Former Lake County jail inmate tests positive for coronavirus two days after release

April 17, 2020 at 5:08 p.m.

Antonio Ellis of Des Plaines started feeling poorly on April 8. He woke up that morning in his bunk at the Lake County jail with a headache and, when he...

As confirmed coronavirus cases hit 1,721 across Lake County, six Waukegan city employees test positive

April 16, 2020 at 7:33 a.m.

Waukegan firefighter and paramedic Rob Harvey was in the back of an ambulance treating a patient when he was exposed to the novel coronavirus. When the call came in, nothing...

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