Articles filed under Counties
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New Lake County Board district map approved mainly along party linesDec 15, 2021 12:00 am - With the official adoption of new district boundaries, the geographic stage has been set for an interesting 2022 election season for Lake County Board incumbents and hop...
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Sheriff: Orland Park man attacked Grayslake woman in car, followed her homeDec 15, 2021 12:00 am - A South suburban man is scheduled to appear in court Friday on charges he assaulted a woman in a car last week and then followed her home, where sheriff's deputies inter...
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Kane County Board wants mass vaccination site to stay open, Dems trade blameDec 14, 2021 12:00 am - With the surprise announcement last week that Kane County's COVID-19 mass vaccination site would close this week, county board members scrambled to keep the shots flowin...
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Elgin woman killed in crash near HampshireDec 14, 2021 12:00 am - Editor's note: An earlier version of this story had an incorrect spelling of the name of the woman who was killed. An Elgin woman was killed Tuesday morning in a cr...
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Oswego man convicted in 2017 Aurora double murderDec 14, 2021 12:00 am - A Kane County jury on Monday convicted an Oswego man for the March 2017 murders of two men in Aurora. The jury deliberated for about three hours before finding Serafin A...
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Lake County Board adopts policy banning single-use plastics by 2023Dec 14, 2021 12:00 am - In what was described as a small but important step, the Lake County Board on Tuesday adopted a policy banning the use of single-use plastics at its operations by Jan. 1...
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DuPage Regional Office of Education awarded $8M grant from U.S. Department of EducationDec 13, 2021 10:00 pm - The DuPage Regional Office of Education, in collaboration with partners at regional offices of education #1, 17, 21, 28, and 50, has been awarded a five-year, $8 million...
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Analysis: Disproportionate share of defendants in Cook County are BlackDec 13, 2021 4:30 am - The number of people charged in criminal cases has declined steadily in Cook County over the last two decades. But a closer look at the trend reveals stark racial dispar...
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McHenry County hopes to move past regional education office's troubled pastDec 12, 2021 12:00 am - McHenry County officials are trying to turn the page on a troubled past few years at the McHenry County Regional Office of Education that resulted in the removal last mo...
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Lake County schools hire more staff to curb pandemic declineDec 11, 2021 12:00 am - Despite extra efforts of educators during the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 Illinois Report Card data show many Lake County students have fallen behind. So the question...