Waukegan News

In 1927, a large red-brick brick house was built for Earl and Dulcie Potter, owners of Potter Manufacturing.

Police arrested a juvenile in connection with a fire that damaged a north suburban Waukegan classroom last week.

Eight suspects are charged in connection with 18 residential burglaries in Waukegan from late February through the end of June, Police Chief Artis Yancey announced Thursday.

The city's own version of Springfield's budget crisis has played out this week, as aldermen have met in separate groups with Mayor Robert Sabonjian to review options in the face of a shortfall estimated last month at $6.5 million.

Three men and a 15-year-old boy were arrested after police found them getting into a car filled with a large amount of electronics and cell phones early Monday in Gurnee.

Twenty-four entries in nine categories were selected out of some 101 candidates for honors in last weekend's annual American Independence Parade sponsored by the Waukegan Park District.

A Kane County judge today sentenced former Green Oaks mayor and Lake County Republican chairman Tom Adams to 30 months probation on child porn charges.

Four Waukegan teens accused of breaking into cars parked at the Key Lime Cove resort in Gurnee pleaded guilty Monday in Lake County Circuit Court.

Authorities in Waukegan say they have charged five people in a string of 20 armed robberies in McHenry and Lake counties, as well as in southeastern Wisconsin.

A northern Illinois man has again been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 1992 rape, stabbing and strangling of an 11-year-old baby sitter.

CHICAGO - Lots of things get left on commuter trains: cell phones, laptops, sunglasses, lunch boxes.

Sandy Sherwood from the Waukegan Public Library read "The Aliens are Coming" at Bowen Park as part of Waukegan Park District's Summer H*E*A*T program.

The Waukegan man convicted for a third time of raping and murdering 11-year-old babysitter Holly Staker in 1992 was again sentenced to life in prison for the slaying.

A north suburban insurance agent has pleaded guilty to three felonies for allegedly taking money for business clients' workers' compensation coverage but spending it on himself instead of buying the policies.

Parents often have to make a snap decision, but none as dire as the quick decision a Waukegan woman had to make after her three year old jumped off a Metra train at the wrong stop.

First it was snakes on a plane. Now, thanks to a north suburban woman, it's babies on a train.

Carl Sain is an officer in North Chicago. He is now charged with aggravated battery and aggravated assault.

Authorities are investigating the death of a 22-year-old North Chicago man who was shot twice in the chest early Tuesday.

A man named "police officer of the year" for the North Chicago Police Department has been charged with pistol-whipping the police chief in nearby Waukegan.

Lake County is attempting to recover from powerful storms that brought surges of lighting, thunder and heavy rains late Friday into early Saturday.