Russell Lissau
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District 207 buying land near Maine South High for $3.2 millionJul 11, 2023 11:00 pm - A plot of mostly undeveloped property adjacent to the Maine South High School campus in Park Ridge will be used for environmental and agricultural education, District 20...
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'We need answers': State launches informal investigation as final boil-water order is liftedJul 11, 2023 1:00 am - A 10-day-old boil order affecting hundreds of people in southern Lake County was lifted Tuesday as demands for explanations from the Aqua Illinois utility company grew -...
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'An abundance of caution': Lake County says some residents should keep boiling tap waterJul 10, 2023 1:00 am - Despite assurances from the utility company serving the area that their tap water is safe to drink, hundreds of residents in southern Lake County should continue boiling...
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Where you can go to beat the heat this summerJul 09, 2023 1:00 am - Editor's note: The story has been edited to include the correct spelling of Wheeling Park District Executive Director Jan Buchs' name. With the sun blazing and temp...
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'Still pretty angry': Water crisis in southern Lake County enters sixth dayJul 07, 2023 1:00 am - For the sixth consecutive day, hundreds of residents in southern Lake County were advised Friday to boil their tap water because of continued problems with the pipes ser...
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'Unacceptable': Lake County water crisis hits fifth dayJul 06, 2023 1:00 am - Despite earlier corporate assurances that the problem was being resolved, hundreds of Lake County residents awoke Thursday without reliably safe drinking water for the f...
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Four days without water, but outage could be over for hundreds of Lake County residentsJul 05, 2023 1:00 am - A water outage in southern Lake County stretched into a fourth day Wednesday and forced a local water park to close. But as remediation efforts continued, the end appear...
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Some Lake County residents urged to boil and conserve water after system failureJul 03, 2023 1:00 am - Customers of a water utility serving parts of southern Lake County should boil tap water or use bottled water because of a system failure that began Sunday morning. Some...
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'A little act of kindness': Wheeling girl builds grocery pantry for local libraryJul 01, 2023 1:00 am - A small grocery repository has been installed outside Wheeling's Indian Trails Public Library to help people struggling to afford food or personal care products. The hou...
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More public art is coming to Mundelein — this time, at a skate parkJun 30, 2023 5:30 am - A muralist with a flair for color is wanted in Mundelein to add some pizzazz to a local park. The Mundelein Arts Commission and other groups want to add a mural to t...