Wauconda News

A section of Liberty Street in Wauconda was closed for about four hours Tuesday after a disguised man delivered a package to Wauconda Community Bank with a note claiming that a bomb was inside and instructions on where to leave money or the bomb would be detonated, police said.

The approval process for relocation of the Lake County Discovery Museum and consolidation of several other forest preserve district facilities in a large Libertyville office building moved forward this week.

Northwest Towns Sportsmen's Club members Phil Mattes of Lombard, left, and Steve Chamberlain of Crystal Lake grind venison for jerky at the Arlington Heights American Legion Post.

Unofficial returns produced the following results in the races for North Shore Sanitary District trustee and a set of judicial seats: * In the Republican race for the Appellate Court, Second Judicial District, to fill the seat vacated by Justice Barbara Gilleran-Johnson, Mary S. Schostok of Libertyville defeated and Donna Kathryn Kelly of McHenry, ...

A new Catholic middle school will open in Wauconda next fall. Registration begins Saturday for Frassati Catholic Academy, the first of its kind in the Chicago area, which will be located next to Parish Life Center at Transfiguration Parish, 316 W. Mill St.

Big changes are on the immediate horizon for the Lake County Forest Preserve district, including the relocation and consolidation of the Lake County Discovery museum and eight other buildings to an existing office campus in Libertyville.

One of two suspects in robberies in Lake Villa, Wauconda and Lincolnshire was released from an area hospital Friday, promptly arrested and taken to Lake County jail.

Lakeside Inn, once a hotel, overlooks downtown Wauconda and is not far from Bangs Lake.

Editor's note: Information in Police Briefs is obtained from the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office and city police departments.

A Wauconda man convicted of gunning down the winner of a dice game in Carpentersville will serve his full sentence of 70 years in prison after a state appeals court denied his appeal this month.

A long-term infrastructure and road improvement project is nearing completion, bringing sewer and water improvements and new roads with curbs and gutters to the oldest part of the village.

WAUCONDA – Running through Aug. 15, the Charles Warner's Cathedrals exhibit will be on display at the Lake County Discovery Museum, featuring a collection of four of Warner's hand-carved, wooden folk-art cathedrals.

Mount St. Joseph, a 132-bed intermediate care facility in Lake Zurich, is holding a casino night Feb.

In response to public requests for extended hours, Lake County Forest Preserve dog exercise areas will be open daily until 6 p.m. or sunset, whichever is later.

Round Lake Area Unit District 116 board members have agreed on the skills they want most in a new superintendent who will lead the system as it prepares to handle financial affairs without state assistance for the first time in eight years.

Women are being warned to be on the lookout for a man in a ski mask after three were robbed of their purses -- one at gunpoint -- by a suspect in parking lot shopping malls in Lincolnshire, Deer Park and Wauconda.

A long-standing plan to add bicycle lanes along Garland Road in Wauconda may be dead because village officials don't want to fight a potentially costly legal battle with residents opposed to the project.

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A man who made the McHenry County Sheriff's Office top-10 fugitive list after eluding police for two years was captured in Wauconda late Saturday, authorities said.

When College of Lake County new student coordinator Mark Lowry asked a group of about 20 incoming freshmen if they had a major in mind, there was silence.