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Mayor replaces two Waukegan Public Library trustees after release of six-minute closed-session video

June 22, 2020 at 5:02 p.m.

The city of Waukegan's mayor has selected two new trustees to serve on the Waukegan Public Library governing board, replacing the trustee who had called another board member a "political...

Fatal shooting in Zion, gunshot injury in Gurnee both under investigation

June 22, 2020 at 1:03 p.m.

A 44-year-old Zion man was found shot about 11 p.m. Sunday after a Zion police officer was flagged down in the 2800 block of Galilee Avenue for a report of...

Lake County warns of possible contact tracing scam

June 19, 2020 at 12:36 p.m.

Scammers pretending to be contact tracers for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic may have stolen vital information like Social Security numbers from at least one Lake County resident, Lake County officials...

Hand sanitizer left on dashboard causes small car fire in Waukegan

June 19, 2020 at 12:14 p.m.

A small bottle of hand sanitizer left on the dashboard caused a small car fire Thursday, according to the Waukegan Fire Department. The fire was extinguished before firefighters arrived in...

Waukegan High School's nearly 4,700 students attend school at either the Washington campus, pictured here in April 2017, or the Brookside campus.

Waukegan High School may see return of two administrator positions

June 19, 2020 at 12:09 p.m.

Three years after Superintendent Theresa Plascencia gutted the ranks of Waukegan High School's administration in a redesign, Waukegan District 60's school board is considering a request to add back two...

Lake County Sheriffs Office personnel, along with the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force, investigate an officer-involved shooting by members of the Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force, outside a house on North Green Bay Road in Beach Park, on June 16, 2020.

Victim of fatal Beach Park officer-involved shooting identified

June 18, 2020 at 5:04 p.m.

The 24-year-old black man fatally shot in Beach Park Tuesday afternoon when white law enforcement officers returned fire while attempting to arrest him was identified Thursday as Brandon Gardner of...

Mosquitoes test positive for West Nile virus in Lake County

June 18, 2020 at 3:52 p.m.

A batch of mosquitoes in Hawthorn Woods tested positive for West Nile virus, the first confirmed sign of the virus in Lake County this year, according to the Lake County...

Lawsuit alleges former Waukegan episcopal priest abused Lake Bluff boy in 1980s

June 18, 2020 at 3:26 p.m.

The former head of a Waukegan church, who was sentenced to four years under Illinois Department of Corrections supervision in the 1990s for sexually abusing children, is the subject of...

March from Waukegan High School to City Hall, CLC online program planned to commemorate Juneteenth

June 17, 2020 at 3:43 p.m.

Seeing the protests day after day in Lake County, Akema Reid thought it would be great for people across the county to be able to come together to one place...

Medline Industries at 1160 S Northpoint Blvd in Waukegan on Friday, Sept. 28, 2018. (Zbigniew Bzdak/baiduhai)

Ethylene oxide testing around two Lake County plants concluded

June 17, 2020 at 3:56 p.m.

Air monitoring around two Lake County facilities that use ethylene oxide has concluded and the results have been sent on to state and federal agencies for further review, according to...

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