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Lake County Gazette
April 4, 2018
Karen Feldman's run in the 59th House District is motivated by her memories of what once was. "Karen is passionate about restoring Illinois to what it used to be – a place where companies and families moved to for a better and brighter future,” her campaign notes on its website. “Karen is running for stateÃâà...
Chicago Daily Herald
April 3, 2018
The project will be funded by the county but managed by the Illinois Department of Transportation. Lake County more than six years ago budgeted $34 million to ensure completion of the work on the state route. Lake County also is pursuing "operational" improvements, such as realigning the intersection ofÃâà...
Lake County Journal
March 29, 2018
... early settlement along the Des Plaines River in Lake County from present-day Half Day Road to north of Libertyville. Pioneers Daniel Wright, Hiram Kennicott, Ransom and Richard Steele, George Vardin, Elconah Tingley and Archimedes Wynkoop will be profiled. The native people of the northern IllinoisÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 29, 2018
The Northern Illinois Food Bank estimates that in 2017 there were 50,300 food insecure residents and 26,010 children in Lake County. It distributed 8.6 million ... Donations can be sent to North Point Church, 900 Lewis Ave., Winthrop Harbor, IL 60096; or go to NorthPointChurch.org to reach out, King said.
Chicago Tribune
March 29, 2018
The College of Lake County is the top environmentally sustainable two-year college in Illinois, second in the Midwest and sixth in the nation, the college's Board of Trustees learned at its March 27 meeting. The ratings come from the Philadelphia-based Association for the Advancement of Sustainability inÃâà...
Lake County Journal
March 29, 2018
LAKE ZURICH – Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois has leased space in the Lake Zurich Shopping Center, 499 Ela Road, and will be opening a Resource Center in late May, a news release stated. Moving helps Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois bring its leadership experience to more girls by being highly visibleÃâà...
Patch.com
March 27, 2018
Fourteen Illinois counties, including Lake County, have been ranked among the healthiest in the United States, according to rankings released by U.S. News & World Report on Monday. The rankings, compiled in collaboration with the Aetna Foundation, present a list of the 500 healthiest AmericanÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 20, 2018
Former Lake County Board member Angelo Kyle continued to lead with 41 percent of the vote Wednesday in the four-way race to fill the seat left vacant by the ... was appointed in February 2017 to the board following then-County Board member Nick Sauer's election to the Illinois House of Representatives.
Chicago Tribune
March 18, 2018
Three statehouse, six Lake County Board and one County Clerk race will round out the local side of Tuesday's primary ballots. ... A sixth race is an open seat vacated by District 3's Tom Weber of Lake Villa, who is running uncontested as a Republican for the Illinois House of Representatives seat currentlyÃâà...
Chicago Daily Herald
March 18, 2018
Races at the top of the ballot have gotten most of the attention in the primary campaign, but Lake County voters also will have decisions to make about county races and a few local ballot issues. Tuesday's election will feature candidates running in: the 6th, 10th and 14th Congressional districts; IllinoisÃâà...
Daily North Shore
March 17, 2018
The following paper sums up the situation. Illinois has the second highest property taxes and the largest number of government units in the nation. The tax rate in Lake County Illinois is one of the highest in the nation. In 2016, the predominant tax rate on assessed value of a property parcel in Lake CountyÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 16, 2018
These campaigns are funded by a grant from the the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Illinois Department of Transportation 's Bureau of Safety Programs and Engineering. In 2015, 10,265 people were killed in alcohol-related driving accidents, representing 29 percent of allÃâà...
Lake County Journal
March 16, 2018
Fisz attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1995 and his Juris Doctor in 1998. He was then admitted to practice law in Illinois. He is a member of the Lake County Bar Association. Fisz is chief of the Felony Trial Division with theÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 16, 2018
Lowering property taxes was the top issue named by all three Republican candidates running to represent Lake County's southwestern edge on the County Board. The three-way primary race for District 17 follows former County Board member Nick Sauer's election to the Illinois House of Representatives inÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 16, 2018
A Zion man has been charged with attempted murder in connection with a shooting on Chicago's Kennedy Expressway on Sunday that wounded a man in another car, according to Illinois State Police. State Police announced Thursday that Tayan E. Williams, 34, was taken into custody by Zion police onÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 15, 2018
A negotiated plea deal approved Wednesday ended the lengthy court battle over perjury charges lodged against former Lake County Coroner Dr. Thomas ... But prosecutor Bernard Murray with the Illinois Appellate Prosecutor's Office said after the agreement was approved that the ban on Rudd's holdingÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 6, 2018
Beginning this weekend, motorists should expect lane closures on the Tri-State Tollway through northern and central Lake County for a period of several ... between Russell Road and Grand Avenue, and then switch to a second phase between Grand and Half Day Road, according to the Illinois Tollway.
U.S. News & World Report
December 31, 1999
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A museum that presents a chronological walk through Lake County history opens Saturday in Libertyville, north of Chicago. The (Arlington ... It features a 20-foot-long model of a Dryptosaurus dinosaur thought to have lived in Lake County millions of years ago. There's also aÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
December 31, 1999
Lake County Coroner Dr. Howard Cooper said late Thursday afternoon that the person shot was a male in his late teens or early 20s. ... The Zion Police Department is assisting federal authorities and the Illinois State Police Public Integrity Unit in conducting an investigation into the incident at the request ofÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
December 31, 1999
Foxconn, the Taiwanese maker of liquid-crystal displays, alone requires seven million gallons of water daily for its manufacturing process, according to a story earlier this month in the Chicago Tribune. That amount is about what the Central Lake County Joint Action Water Agency pulls from the Big Lake toÃâà...
