Warren News

Apple River State Bank announced the following: Jason Thomasson joined the bank as a loan officer in the Elizabeth, Ill., and Hanover, Ill., offices.

Philip Warren, 39, 603 1/2 Douglas St., was found not guilty of domestic battery.

Warren Township government wants to spend $4 million on 50 acres that would be converted into athletic fields and a preserve near Gurnee Mills.

24 in building 190 at Naval Station Great Lakes, Route 137 and Sheridan Road. All armed forces retirees, spouses, widows and/or guests will receive updated information about retiree entitlement programs.

Voters will have their say before the Township Board acts on a proposal to buy 50 acres for a sports complex.

Warren Nisley liked the "green" features of the new Morgan at Loyola Station in Rogers Park when he was apartment hunting.

Viking Park was beaming with diversity. The McNaulty Irish Dancers and Folklorico Mexico de los Hermanos Avila performed Saturday during the first Gurnee Heritage Festival at Viking Park.

Three Warren High School students were arrested late Friday by Gurnee police after an unloaded handgun was discovered hidden in a bathroom ceiling Friday morning.

Liberty Village of Princeton will have an ice cream social from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday in the activity room to celebrate Grandparents Day.

The infield at Warren High School's track looked like a campground Saturday night.

Susan Van Sickle, 40, of Dixon, is a bank mortgage loan originator with Fifth Third Bank's Dixon and Sterling branches.

Bruce Niemi plans to put body and soul into his next sculpture. The Warren High School graduate and Northern Illinois University alumnus has been selected from a final field of four artists to provide a sculpture for NIU's future Memorial Garden, honoring the five students slain in last year's campus shooting.

DeKALB – With July will come new faces at the helm of the DeKalb County chapter of The Salvation Army.

While headlining the traditional brunch at Harvard Milk Days on June 6, WGN farm director Orion Samuelson noted the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth and dramatized Lincoln's contribution to the farming community with a litany of Lincoln-inspired accomplishments.

A hot air balloon floats above rural Elizabeth, Ill, at last year's "Great Galena Balloon Race" event.

GURNEE SHRED DAY: The Gurnee Park District will host a community shred day June 18 at Hunt Club Park Community Center, 920 N. Hunt Club Road, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Confidential shredding of personal documents will be done by Secure Data Destruction.

We thought we'd said our last goodbye of the Ski Train as it pulled out of Denver for the final time last month .

It was the volunteers turn to sit back, relax and enjoy a good meal during a luncheon in their honor Thursday at Warren Township Senior Center.

Law officers in two states are at odds over a hit and run case. Florida police say Kenneth Upmann hit a child with his car last fall.