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Former Lake County Board member Dick Barr in a 2018 file photo. (Mark Ukena/Lake County News-Sun)

Outgoing Lake County Board members air grievances, reflect on time in local politics as they exit office

December 29, 2022 at 11:38 a.m.

Vernon Hills Democrat Julie Simpson didn't quite think she'd find herself at such odds with new Lake County Board Chair Sandy Hart, a fellow Democrat, after she won former County...

‘Greenway’ recommendation could be on the way for former Route 53 expansion land as task force wraps up

December 22, 2022 at 9:32 a.m.

A task force of elected officials, state department representatives and environmental advocates voted last week to recommend to the Illinois General Assembly that roughly 1,100 acres of land once acquired...

Lake County Board dishes out new committee assignments, adopts rules for new term

December 20, 2022 at 7:01 a.m.

The Lake County Board finalized committee assignments and approved an updated set of rules for the next two years on Friday in a meeting that included some last-minute maneuvering by...

Mourners arrive for the memorial service for Vera Kisliak and her two daughters, Vivian, 7, and Amilia, 4, at the Buffalo Grove Community Arts Center Dec. 16, 2022 in Buffalo Grove.

Buffalo Grove community gathers to remember Kisliak ‘angels’ killed in murder-suicide

December 19, 2022 at 1:41 p.m.

Community members, friends and neighbors gathered Friday in Buffalo Grove to remember Vera Kisliak and her daughters, Vivian and Amilia, while calling on each other and authorities to do more...

New Lake County Clerk Anthony Vega, D-Grayslake, was sworn in on Dec. 1 and is believed to be both the first Latino and openly gay person to serve as a countywide elected official.

Lake County’s first Latino and openly gay countywide official begins term; ‘Government works better when it reflects the community’

December 16, 2022 at 10:10 a.m.

Two weeks after he was sworn in as the new Lake County clerk, Anthony Vega is getting acclimated to life as a countywide elected official. Consolidated election primaries already loom...

Lake County Board to vote on new rules; ‘I think (this) is kind of killing a fly with a sledgehammer’

December 15, 2022 at 8:43 a.m.

The Lake County Board's Rules Committee this week discussed possible changes to who controls the content of member newsletters, whether board members should be allowed to self-administer polls and whether...

Mundelein to annex 700 acres for Wirtz family’s massive Ivanhoe Village project; ‘It will … be one of the largest developments in Lake County’

December 13, 2022 at 12:24 p.m.

Mundelein village trustees have endorsed a plan proposed by the Wirtz family, owners of the Chicago Blackhawks, to annex more than 700 acres of land in unincorporated Mundelein and turn...

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