Ross Werland

The Lake County, Ill., Convention & Visitor's Bureau celebrated 10 years of marketing its turf as a tourism destination last weekend by serving drinks and hors d'oeuvres perilously close to...

Uneasy rider: Interim Supt. Richard Kolze of Antioch High School District 117 is willing to make anyone a great deal on his all-terrain vehicle (like a motorcycle with four wheels)....

Milk, bread-and buffalo: It has been available for the asking since the last Super Bowl, when Dallas made mincemeat of Buffalo, but only recently has the Sunset Foods store in...

A close shave: The New Tradition Chorus, based in Northbrook but drawing heavily from Lake County for its voices, has just returned from Pittsburgh with another silver medal in the...

Something's brewing: Libertyville continues to challenge Long Grove for the title as quaintest little town in Lake County with the latest addition at Mickey Finn's, for 15 years a comfortable...

Former astronaut Scott Carpenter was at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee recently to help launch the amusement park's new Space Shuttle America ride and to hand out scholarships to...

The war's over: Gen. Robert E. Lee's told his hungry, defeated Confederate troops to go home 129 years ago ... and a copy of Lee's orders recently reached Lake County...

Tourist hot spots: Five Japanese journalists in Chicago for a week had one day to venture out of the city. The Illinois Tourism Bureau sent them to Lake County. They...

Boys' day at Kmart: Supermodel Kathy Ireland, 30, who is seven months pregnant, created stretch marks on the necks of high school boys at the new Super Kmart in Vernon...

Olympic moments: Rev. Larry Lindmark of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Deerfield, an avid Olympics pin collector, returned from Norway with 125 more for his collection, some he bought but...