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The BP gas station at 350 N. Hunt Club Road will be the first in Gurnee to sell alcohol after the village board voted 4-2 this week to issue the business a liquor license.

A small but wildly popular suburban craft meadery whose bottles of mead typically sell out online within a matter of hours received permission this week to open a tap room in Gurnee. Pips Meadery will operate in a space currently used by Only Child Brewery at 1350 Tri State Parkway.

The small business grant program launched by the village of Gurnee last month already has attracted 17 qualified applicants requesting nearly half of the $250,000 allotted for the program.

Gurnee leaders OK demolition of 2 commercial buildings in floodplain This building along Old Grand Avenue, pictured during the flood in 2017, will be demolished in August as part of a village of Gurnee plan to remove buildings in the Des Plaines River floodplain. Paul Valade | Staff Photographer, 2017   Updated 7/13/2021 5:45 PM The Gurnee village board has approved a $95,472 contract to demolish two commercial buildings in the Des Plaines River floodplain that housed a Dairy Que...

Longtime Gurnee mayor says farewell to village at final board meeting Kristina Kovarik Updated 5/4/2021 5:42 PM In her final act as Gurnees mayor, Kristina Kovarik thanked the village staff, residents, community partners, fellow elected officials and her family and friends who supported her during her 16-year tenure in the villages top job. "Every day for the last 16 years I woke up with a ton of gratefulness and thankfulness to have been given the privilege and trust to lead Gurnee...