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Two in critical condition after weekend Lake County crashes

October 13, 2019 at 1:58 p.m.

Two Lake County men were listed in critical condition Sunday after separate weekend vehicle accidents, authorities said. A 48-year-old man from unincorporated Lake Villa sustained life-threatening injuries and was in...

Dressed as a hot dog, burger, fries, ketchup and mustard, the Evola family enjoys a day with their dogs, Abby and Taina at the Doggy Trick-or-Treat event in Mundelein.

Canines and their owners get jump on Halloween with Doggy Trick-or-Treat event in Mundelein

October 13, 2019 at 1:03 p.m.

Roxy is a sweet 1-year-old pit bull who likes to be pampered, but at the Mundelein Park District's Doggy Trick-or-Treat event at Community Park Saturday, the canine diva took it...

Waukegan mom Alexis Hardt watches her daughter Mackenzie Milton paint a flower in the arts and crafts station of the newly-opened Kohl Children's museum pop-up in North Chicago.

Kohl Children’s Museum travels to North Chicago for pop-up exhibit featuring STEM activities

October 10, 2019 at 9:32 a.m.

The first thing that caught 5-year-old Mackenzie Milton's eyes at the Kohl Children's Museum Pop-Up after walking inside hand-in-hand with her mom was a fully stocked table with craft materials...

Dr. Melvin Hinton, chief of mental health services at the Illinois Department of Corrections, gives a talk at the College of Lake County on Tuesday, Oct. 8.

CLC mental health conference focuses on minority students ‘struggling to tell you they need help’

October 9, 2019 at 3:20 p.m.

Barriers minority students face when experiencing mental health issues, and how staff can provide assistance, was discussed this week at a presentation hosted at the College of Lake County. Trusting...

Renovated auditorium at North Chicago High School reflects ‘the quality that we see in our students’

October 7, 2019 at 2:37 p.m.

For North Chicago Community High School alumni who had forgotten the Warhawk fight song, the words were provided so they could sing along loudly from the new seats of the...

A town hall hosted at the College of Lake County had organizers scrambling to make room for the large turnout on Oct. 2, 2019.

Illinois EPA blasted at ethylene oxide town hall for ‘stalling on regulating’ plants in Gurnee and Waukegan

October 4, 2019 at 8:41 a.m.

Fear, anger and outrage were expressed by some who attended a much-anticipated ethylene oxide town hall meeting at the College of Lake County's Grayslake Campus on Wednesday. The event generated...

Waukegan Forward signs will be placed in yards to encourage residents to get involved in opposing a casino in the city.

Opposition to Waukegan casino hits the organizing phase: ‘They’re counting on resident apathy’

October 2, 2019 at 10:10 a.m.

A group with a mission to educate and engage the public hosted a meeting this week to discuss ways to stop a Waukegan casino from coming to fruition. Waukegan Forward...

Leroy Presley is set to retire after 49 years of service at the Waukegan Post Office on Monday, Sept. 30.

Postal worker, a ‘friend to everybody,’ retires after nearly 50 years on the job in Waukegan

September 30, 2019 at 8:07 a.m.

Leroy Presley has been weaving a thread in the city of Waukegan's fabric by delivering mail to its residents for the Waukegan Post Office for nearly half a century. On...

Maintenance workers dig out a hollow cement block containing a time capsule filled with documents dating as far back as 1903 from an outside wall at Vista Medical Center East.

Time capsule pulled out of Waukegan hospital’s emergency room offers faded memories from 1969

September 24, 2019 at 5:55 p.m.

Fifty-year-old records that had been buried within a time capsule in the foundation of Waukegan's Vista Medical Center East emergency room building were unveiled Tuesday. The more than a dozen...

The organization United Belizeans of Northern Illinois hosted a picnic after the Fiestas Patrias parade in Waukegan.

‘The best thing about today is the diversity’: Annual Fiestas Patrias parade steps off in downtown Waukegan

September 16, 2019 at 11:37 a.m.

Small Belize flags that hung from bicycle handlebars swished past thousands of spectators who gathered along Washington Street in Waukegan on Sunday for the annual Fiestas Patrias Parade. The three-hour...

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