Russell Lissau
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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...
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'How cool is that': Artists bringing attention to plastic waste with Des Plaines projectJun 29, 2023 5:00 am - A community art project with an environmental message is underway in Des Plaines. Seeking to bring attention to the amount of plastic people use and waste, the Des Plain...
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'A legend': Hall of fame Mundelein High School wrestling coach Don Miller has diedJun 27, 2023 1:00 am - Don E. Miller, a celebrated athletic coach who also was among Mundelein High School's original teachers, has died. Miller, 91, died Thursday at his Wauconda home. He'd s...
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How Wheeling library's maker-in-residence program lets patrons help create public artJun 26, 2023 5:30 am - If you've ever marveled at a painting, a sculpture or another artistic creation and wondered how artists do what they do, head to the Indian Trails Public Library any Tu...
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'No conclusive answer': Officials still don't know what caused May intruder alarm at Maine WestJun 22, 2023 1:00 am - Despite what officials called an exhaustive investigation, the cause of the false armed-intruder report at Maine West High School in May remains elusive. "The in-depth i...