Nancy Ryan

The Vernon Hills Police Department soon will have special drunken-driving enforcement patrols and add a video camera system to a squad car. A $4,928 grant for the projects has been...

The superintendent of Schiller Park School District 81 has been chosen from a field of 57 candidates to head Oak Grove School District 68 in Green Oaks, starting July 1....

With a foot of snow on the ground and school canceled, 13-year-old Eric Bednarowicz had two things on his side Tuesday: time and a shovel. "Whoever shoveled last night basically...

This month, the Lake County Stormwater Management Commission is expected to approve allocating $206,000 in cost-share funds for 13 watershed-related projects in 2001, including drainage improvements in areas that suffered...

A $60,000 research fellowship was recently awarded to a New York specialist by the Des Plaines-based American Brain Tumor Association in memory of a 10-year-old Deerfield girl who died in...

The Gurnee Fire Department is investigating the cause of a weekend fire in nearby Park City, in which a 27-year-old woman was killed and her husband severely burned. Regina Lotz...

Parents and their daughters are invited to an open house hosted by Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. Woodlands officials said...

Four years after launching the highly successful Lake-Cook Shuttle Bug, county transportation officials are launching a similar service Nov. 13 for employees who work near the Illinois Highway 22 corridor....

The Lincolnshire Village Board has endorsed a controversial plan to widen Half Day Road, after Village President Barbara LaPiana broke a tie vote on the issue late Wednesday. At the...

The Lake County Journalists Association is sponsoring a free public program Thursday night to discuss media coverage of the peaker power plant debate in Libertyville. The program, titled "Seek Truth...