Island Lake
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McHenry County Board denies request to turn single-family home into care facilityJan 21, 2023 12:00 am - McHenry County Board denies request to turn single-family home into care facility
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How native animals survive the colder monthsJan 20, 2023 5:00 am - Editor's note: April Vaos, environmental educator for the Lake County Forest Preserves, wrote this story. In your forest preserves, winter is peaceful, the sounds soften...
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Volo man uses antique popcorn wagon to raise funds for children in needJan 20, 2023 12:00 am - Over the past six years, Scott Uglinica of Volo, with a 1928 Ford Model Popcorn Wagon in tow, has raised thousands of dollars to help children in need in McHenry and Lak...
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Lawsuit: Lake County Coroner blacklisted former employee who kept the office cadaver dogJan 20, 2023 12:00 am - Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek is being sued by a former employee who claims she tried to sabotage his attempts to find a job after a dispute over the office's cadav...
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McHenry County woman uses area trails to train sled dogsJan 19, 2023 5:00 am - For dogs that want to race, "they have to love running more than they love you," Hebron resident and dog trainer Hanna Kowal said. Now 22, Kowal has been training her do...
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Long-awaited second part of a shoreline stabilization on Long Lake will proceedJan 19, 2023 4:30 am - About 1,200 feet of the Long Lake shoreline in Ingleside will be stabilized and an erosion-damaged canoe launch at the Grant Woods Forest Preserve replaced, bringing to ...
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Protecting rights or ignoring the law? McHenry County residents weigh in on possible gun sanctuaryJan 19, 2023 12:00 am - Kathleen Larimer of Crystal Lake held up a picture of her son, killed during the 2012 shooting at a Colorado movie theater, calling him "the face of gun violence." Carl ...
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Lake County sheriff elected vice president of law enforcement training boardJan 19, 2023 12:00 am - Lake County Sheriff John D. Idleburg has been elected to a leadership position with the state agency that oversees how police agencies in Illinois hire and train law enf...
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$100K grants to support Illinois businesses led by minoritiesJan 18, 2023 10:00 pm - Founders First CDC, a national 501(c) 3 nonprofit, has opened its Chicago Job Creators Quest Grant application. It will remain open through Feb. 8. Twenty-five grants to...
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Stevenson Center on Democracy closes the book on its historic meeting placeJan 18, 2023 4:30 am - Another chapter in the storied history of one of Illinois' and Lake County's best-known political families has ended. The Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy, founded in...