Lake Villa
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Lake County announces 30th year of Adopt-A-Highway programJan 15, 2023 12:00 am - The Lake County Division of Transportation announced 27 roads are available for volunteer groups to adopt this year. Under the Adopt-A-Highway program, which is in its 3...
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Suburban cold cases solved and unsolved: How DNA has played a role so farJan 13, 2023 4:00 am - Despite thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews and untold hours of investigation, it took nearly a decade - and a couple of strokes of luck - for police to arrest th...
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Sheriffs draw lines at what they will - and will not - enforce with new weapons lawJan 13, 2023 12:00 am - Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg had a message for gun owners concerned about Illinois' new ban on the purchase, sale and manufacture of some high-powered weapons and l...
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Lake County to pursue plan to increase broadband access and connectivityJan 13, 2023 12:00 am - A newly-formed special committee of the Lake County Board plans to address inequities and find ways to increase connectivity and access to high-speed internet across the...
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Well-being check saves 77-year-old woman who fell in her homeJan 13, 2023 12:00 am - A 77-year-old woman who lives alone near Lake Villa fell in her home Thursday and might have died were it not for the Lake County sheriff's well-being check program, off...
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Schneider's office to collect Valentines for veteransJan 13, 2023 12:00 am - For the seventh year, U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider's office will collect and distribute Valentine's Day cards to local veterans, his office announced Friday. Those intereste...
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Lake County sheriff responds to racist comments in wake of his stance on weapons banJan 13, 2023 12:00 am - A Facebook post by Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg Thursday night expressing his support for the state's ban on high-powered weapons prompted more than 2,000 comments,...
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Lake County judge set to retireJan 13, 2023 12:00 am - Associate judge David P. Brodsky, who has spent his entire career serving the people of Lake County, is set to retire on Jan. 16. "Serving as a judge in the 19th Judicia...
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Lake County property transfers for Dec. 7-12, 2023Jan 13, 2023 12:00 am - Antioch $431,500; 1258 Heritage Oaks Drive, Antioch; Sold on Dec. 8, 2022, by NVR Inc to Jarek Dombrowski $330,000; 73 W Old Mill Trail, Antioch; Sold on Dec. 12, 2022, ...
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Top crime stories of 2022: Mayhem and heartbreak defined the year in suburban crimeJan 12, 2023 5:00 am - A mass shooting on July 4 in Highland Park, during which a lone shooter stood atop a building firing nearly 90 rounds at parade spectators and participants, shocked the ...