Beach Park News

Mary Jo McDonald , is sworn in as Beach Park's village clerk by her mother, Laukrie Cvengros, who is retiring after 34 years of service to the community.

Results from a Lake County sheriff's office investigation into last month's school bus crash near Wadsworth show a Jeep Wrangler crashed into the bus.

The first of four people charged with torturing and murdering a Waukegan man and dumping his body in a Penny Road pond in 2011 pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in Lake County court Tuesday.

Demonstrating the level of collaboration that is happening more and more frequently nationwide, a Durham School Services location about 7 miles south of the Chicago and Wisconsin border partnered with emergency personnel from three local cities to conduct an evacuation training drill in response to a fatal bus crash last month.

Zion-Benton High School prom king Justin Bychowski, 18, of Beach Park dances with his date Sara Eccles, 16 of Beach Park.

Aaron Cvengros, a teenager from Winthrop Harbor, is hopeful his entrance into Zion-Benton High School this fall will give fellow students the chance to learn more than just reading, writing and arithmetic.

Charges will not be filed in connection with the April 5 crash in northern Lake County involving a school bus that killed one driver and injured more than 30 elementary school students, authorities said Tuesday.

Police in suburban Chicago say prosecutors won't file charges after a school bus accident left the driver of a Jeep dead earlier this month.

The Lake County Sheriff's Office is participating in the Drug Enforcement Administration National Prescription Drug Take Back event on Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Anyone who has unwanted or unused prescription drugs can drop them off at one of the locations for proper disposal.

A Lake Villa man is in jail on $1 million bond after he was arrested Wednesday by the Lake County Sheriff's Department for attempting to abduct four little girls in Beach Park.

Here is an updated list of road closures and roads with water over the pavement.