Committee leader chosen David A. Northern, executive director of the Lake County Housing Authority, has been appointed by the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials to chair a nationwide committee charged with encouraging young ...

Kids again welcome: After a temporary break, the Lake County Health Department's women's residential services program again is accepting children while their mothers receive addiction treatment at the facility. The Vernon Hills facility aims to give...

An environmental conference Thursday laid out some worst-case scenarios but also offered ways to reverse troubling trends. Experts at the "Greening Our Transportation and Roads" event, the sixth annual DuPage Enviornmental Summit, talked about a var...

The Lake County Center for Independent Living has awarded Lake County Clerk Willard R. Helander the Mickey Finn's Community Excellence Award for her work on behalf of the disabled community in Lake County. The Mundelein-based disability rights organ...

Several Republican Lake County Board incumbents are outraged by election mailers from Democratic challengers in various districts blaming the county board for property tax assessment increases. The near-identical mailers read: "Stop out of control p...

1. Why are you running for this office, whether for re-election or election the first time? Is there a particular issue that motivates you, and if so, what? What will be your main priority? McHenry County is on the cusp between urbanization and rur...

The adage about a man's home being his castle has been out of date for awhile, what with laws regulating activities from how many pets you can own to how loud your stereo can play to whether you can have a fence. Now comes news that the Lake County ...

Bring a lawn chair, bottle of wine and a picnic basket for a performance by guitarist Michael Kelsey at 5 p.m. Sunday at Station Square at Prairie Crossing, Route 137 a mile west of Route 45. Swenson and Steglinski, an acoustic jazz duet, kick off t...