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Thirty-four acres of undeveloped South Barrington Park District land has once again sold at auction, but the identity of the winning bidder isn’t clear. A representative of a group called Area N Dev...
Nancy E. Koske, a longtime Fox Lake resident who served as the town’s first female mayor and as a village trustee, has died. She was 72. Koske died Wednesday at home, surrounded by family. Born Nanc...
Mary Cole, a Gurnee Republican, announced this week she is running for Lake County state's attorney in the November 2024 election.
Round Lake Beach village leaders recently approved paying $200,000 to settle a 2020 lawsuit brought against the village by a former police officer alleging a "persistent pattern of sexual harassment."
Marijuana legalization in Illinois came with grand plans for wiping clean many criminal records involving cannabis. That aspect of the law was so important that on the eve of legalization on Jan. 1, 2020, Gov. JB Pritzker pardoned more than 11,000 people of low-level marijuana convictions. Yet more than 700,000 cases could qualify for expungement, a process in which police and court records of arrests and convictions are cleared. The process is crucial to giving people with such records a better chance at getting a job, an education and a place to live. Now, almost one year after legali...