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Lake Behavioral Hospital officials inspect a community room in the new state-of-the-art facility before its opening this week in Waukegan.

Facility offering mental health and addiction services opens in Waukegan

June 11, 2020 at 3:20 p.m.

A new hospital specializing in behavioral and addiction treatment is now open in Waukegan. Lake Behavioral Hospital is a for-profit facility operated by New York-based US HealthVest at 2615 Washington...

Gurnee resident Jade Jean Lee addresses a group at a gathering organized by the FreeThinkers United with Purpose group in Zion on Thursday, June 4.

Lake County thinkers come together to discuss inequality, racism

June 5, 2020 at 6:30 p.m.

With faint sounds and smells of summer in the background, words of hope for change in the racial inequality landscape were shared at a gathering at a local park. The...

From left, in purple plaid shirt, Arthur J. Gass, pastor of Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Waukegan, Pierre Edmonds, pastor of Eternal Flame A.M.E. Church of North Chicago and Gerald Wilcoxon, pastor of Mt. Sinai Institutional Baptist Church of North Chicago, appear before a parking lot audience. Images from the Community Prayer Vigil and Call for Peace and Solidarity in Waukegan on June 2, 2020 near Ross Dress for Less in Waukegan Plaza. (Karie Angell Luc/Lake County News-Sun)

Lake County faith leaders lead vigil to call for end to ‘systemic racism’

June 2, 2020 at 6:08 p.m.

Sounds of hammering nails boarding up broken windows at a store looted at the Waukegan Plaza provided background noise amid prayers and speeches by members of the North Shore Baptist...

Six Flags Great America preparing to reopen soon with attendance caps, mandatory face coverings

May 29, 2020 at 10:21 a.m.

Six Flags Great America officials say they don't yet know when the park will reopen, but when it does welcome back guests this season things will look a lot different....

‘I had no words to describe how I felt’: Veteran’s long-lost bracelet found in Waukegan, delivered to grandson

May 27, 2020 at 5:30 p.m.

A lucky find courtesy of the beep, beep, beep of a metal detector has bridged a connection between a grandfather and grandson, and created a memory thanks to a random...

Volo Auto Museum co-founder dies at 77

July 21, 2022 at 4:55 p.m.

Bill Grams, co-founder of the Volo Auto Museum, died Tuesday at age 77. The longtime Volo resident died of a heart attack at Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington after battling...

Illinoians living near the Wisconsin border will be able to shop the dairy state's nonessential retail stores, but not the ones in Illinois, per the two states' differing plans to get workers safely back to work.

Wisconsin’s opening of nonessential stores prompts mixed reactions in Lake County border towns

May 13, 2020 at 6:49 a.m.

Illinois residents living and working near the Wisconsin border are reacting in a variety of ways this week to Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers' order to allow all nonessential retail stores...

Illinois National Guard walk to the testing facility site in Waukegan, Ill., Saturday, May 2, 2020. A drive-thru COVID-19 testing facility, the state's first community-based site in Lake County, will open for to the public in Waukegan on Sunday, May 3. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Coronavirus testing site opens Sunday in Waukegan

May 3, 2020 at 5:44 p.m.

The line of vehicles to get into the new community based COVID-19 drive-thru testing site in Waukegan extended three blocks Sunday as people waited to be tested on the facility's...

Golfers keep wide physical distance from one another during play at the Countryside Golf Course in Mundelein on May 1, the day golf courses reopened after being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lake County golf courses start to swing into action slowly, with new coronavirus rules in place

May 3, 2020 at 9:28 a.m.

Under a blue sky atop bright green grass, golfers were out in full force at the Countryside Golf Course in Mundelein Friday. Normally, golfers would have been playing on courses...

Shoppers look through flowering plants outside a home improvement store for gardening projects they can do during the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘Now there’s that void to be filled’: Lake County residents use quarantine to catch up, get ahead on home improvement projects

April 27, 2020 at 11:45 a.m.

Jerry O'Connor is using the coronavirus quarantine to do yard work and rebuild his koi pond. The retired Mundelein resident each year takes on the task of making his front...

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