Idlewild News

Half a million dollars in grants from the Michigan Development Corporation is making its way to a Lake County community.

Lake County's Yates Township will receive grants totaling $620,046 to fund projects in the historic community of Idlewild, once one of the most popular resort destinations for African-Americans in the Midwest.

LANSING - The State Historic Preservation Review Board has nominated the Idlewild Historic District, the Detroit Financial District and three state parks to the National Register of Historic Places.

A tiny rural school district where nine out of 10 students come from needy families is offering high school graduates $5,000 a year for four years to fulfill their college dreams.

When it came time to retire, the Walkers looked all around the country and kept coming back to a tiny northern Michigan community where she'd spent her summers as a child -- Idlewild.

When it came time to retire, the Walkers looked all around the country and kept coming back to a tiny northern Michigan community where she'd spent her summers as a child -- Idlewild.

When it came time to retire, the Walkers looked all around the country and kept coming back to a tiny northern Michigan community where she'd spent her summers as a child -- Idlewild.

Scottish indie icons Idlewild will officially release their sixth full-length studio album, Post Electric Blues , on October 5th through Cooking Vinyl records.

As part of Governor Jennifer M. Granholm's Idlewild, Michigan Transformation Initiative , the Michigan Historical Commission will dedicate five Michigan Historical Markers in the Lake County resort community on Saturday, Aug.

Investigators say their suspicions were spot on when it came to a fire in Lake County.

Hide Video Fire destroyed an abandoned Lake County home this afternoon, and investigators are calling it suspicious.

Hide Video Fire destroyed an abandoned Lake County home this afternoon, and investigators are calling it suspicious.