The two Republican candidates - incumbent Linda Pedersen and challenger James Creighton Mitchell Jr. - running to represent Lake County Board District 1 in the June 28 primary each have public office experience, albeit in different venues and times....

A prankster, a family man, and a father figure to others. Ken Marabella was all of those, but he also was deadly serious when there was work to be done. It all came to bear as Mundelein's first village administrator, from January 1975 until April 2...

Dax, a Lake County sheriff's police dog, had a busy 24 hours starting early Thursday, sniffing out nine juveniles after reports of two stolen vehicles. At 1 a.m., a sheriff's deputy found a crashed vehicle near Wadsworth and Delany roads in Wadswort...

A 45-year-old North Chicago man died early Sunday morning after the SUV he was driving crashed into a utility pole and trees on Route 73 in Wadsworth. According to the Lake County sheriff's office, deputies answering a 3 a.m. call to the 16000 block...

Police are searching for two Zion men they say were involved in a March 6 shooting in the parking lot of a Wadsworth gas station. Lake County sheriff's police said investigators are seeking Charles Brooks III, 41, of the 3600 block of 16th Street, a...

BOSTON (AP) - A bronze bell cast in 1834 in Paul Revere's Massachusetts foundry has come home - capping a nearly two-century, cross-country odyssey that saw it hauled by oxcart to churches in Ohio before languishing for decades in a California garag...

Another extensive search of a forest preserve for a 24-year-old Antioch man reported missing five days ago came up empty Thursday. Authorities have been using dogs, drones and dozens of volunteers to search the Old School Forest Preserve near Libert...

An SUV driven by a woman with a revoked driver's license ran a red light and collided with a car Saturday in Waukegan, killing its driver, police said. The deceased is Waukegan man in his 50s whose identity is being withheld pending an autopsy and f...