Island Lake News

This year's Lake County Fair Queen contestants won't be competing with the noise of the demolition derby as they give their speeches, but the excitement of hosting the event at the new fairgrounds is expected to generate its own buzz, said pageant director Alyce Brownlee.

WOODSTOCK – Indian Ridge 2 North beach in Wonder Lake was closed Thursday because of high bacteria levels, according to the McHenry County Department of Health.

Jerry DeLaurentis III said Wednesday he had already walked out of Island Lake Village Hall on May 5, 2008 before he noticed the mistake.

The economy has claimed another victim in Lake County: Island Lake's fireworks show.

Two pictures of former Island Lake mayor Thomas Hyde were drawn Tuesday in Lake County Circuit Court.

An Island Lake sex offender who led Crystal Lake police on a high-speed chase last summer was sentenced to two years of intensive probation Tuesday.

Former Island Lake Mayor Thomas Hyde is going to trial this week on forgery and official misconduct charges.

Prosecutors in Lake County say recent corruption charges against a former northern Illinois mayor and his wife are part of an ongoing public corruption investigation.

Felony charges filed this week against former Island Lake mayor Tom Hyde and his wife were part of an ongoing public corruption investigation there, Lake County prosecutors said Friday.

The former mayor of northwest suburban Island Lake and his wife allegedly took more than $100,000 from the village during what Lake County prosecutors contend was a decadelong payroll scam.

ISLAND LAKE – Former Island Lake President Tom Hyde and his wife, Sharon, were charged with multiple felonies today.

As about 130 guests looked on, Laura Wasmer and Bob Dill were married by the Rev.

Island Lake Trustee Rich Garling is expected to resign at the village board's Thursday meeting and could be replaced by a former trustee who recently lost a re-election bid.

Emerson Abbott McGuire was born March 26, 2009, in St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, to Dan and Dannon McGuire of Canton.

A 10-year-old boy at an Island Lake school has a confirmed case of swine flu. District 118 Superintendent Daniel Coles posted a message on the district's Web site stating that the student, who attends Cotton Creek School, was diagnosed with H1N1.

The man who fought Island Lake's plans to build a well by starting a pig farm is inviting village officials over for dinner.

Area village board meetings could benefit from a little pork. At least, that's the idea behind Bob Wargaski's Pigapalooza, which he hopes will bring elected officials and residents together in a more casual setting than village hall.

As part of Earth Day, Woodstock High School students Dana Ericksen , Stephanie Deiker and Stephanie Jones, all 18, work to clear brush Wednesday at Albert property in Woodstock.

Nobody is getting rich as a village trustee. Most candidates seek the position for altruistic reasons.

With an infusion of new state sales tax money and anticipated federal stimulus funds, local and state agencies have scheduled a full slate of road projects for the upcoming construction season.