Lake Villa News

A Waukegan man was killed late Sunday, June 16, when the pickup truck he was a passenger in crashed off Route 45 north of Grass Lake Road in Old Mill Creek.

A new Antioch-Lake Villa Area High School District 117 board member is expected to be sworn in during the next board meeting on June 11. Superintendent Jim McKay said board member Kari King Duffy resigned her position on the board in late May due to a personal issue.

Chris and Julie Shkyria are co-owners of Lawn Doctor of Northern Illinois. Recently reporter Kim Mikus of the Daily Herald, Suburban Chicago's Information Source, interviewed Chris Shkyria about the couple's experiences and lawn care successes.

Alcohol compliance checks by the Lake County Sheriff's Office conducted at retail liquor establishments turned up five incidents of illegal sales of alcohol to a minor, officials said.

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The Antioch Police Department hosted a training seminar for more than 300 officers from nine departments, including officers from Antioch, Lake Co Sheriff s Office, Lake Villa, Lindenhurst, Park City, Lakemoor, Tower Lakes, Lake County Forest Preserve and College of Lake County.

George Button, 72, of Niles, is the director of the Niles Rhythm Band. The group performed Wednesday at the 10th Annual Kitchen Band Jamboree held at the Niles Senior Center.

J.J. Pleviak Elementary School could be closed in 2014 as a way to save Lake Villa Elementary District 41 nearly $1.2 million, Superintendent John Van Pelt revealed Tuesday.

Ken Hutchison talks about the guilty of first degree murder verdict during a press conference in the lobby of the Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan with Richard Dean , Richard Nothnagel and Rebeccah Hutchison.

Both sides rested their cases Thursday in the trial of a man accused of murdering a mother of two in a Lindenhurst Burger King nearly seven years ago.

Despite a slimmer budget for the fiscal year, the Lake County Forest Preserve is slated to undergo $17.7 million in improvements as part of a five-year blueprint for its facilities.

Lake County Sheriff's Sgt. Sara Balmes said officials were notified of a missing 74-year-old woman who suffers from dementia on Tuesday, May 21, at approximately 5:30 p.m. Patricia M Simonsen, of the 23000 block of Petite Lake Road, was last seen around 1:45 p.m. on Green Bay Road, between Lake-Cook Road and Wesley Road in Glencoe, after she was ... (more)

Spotlights bore down on massive piles of shredded cinder block, insulation and metal as crews worked through the night lifting bricks and parts of collapsed walls where a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.

In a side-by-side demonstration shows a fire in a room without a sprinkler and one with a sprinkler as Knollwood firefighters Billy Knesley, Cory Whipple and Kerry McWilliams stand by.