Renovation work is expected to begin later this month on a 33,000-square-foot hotel in Waukegan that will be transformed into a permanent homeless shelter featuring 200 beds.

Lanes that have been closed for construction will reopen where possible over the Fourth of July holiday, the Illinois ...

The Illinois Department of Public Health regularly tests the water to determine when beaches are safe to reopen.

Members of the District 60 Board of Education learned the results of the 5Essentials Survey during a regularly scheduled meeting on June 24.

The alderman who posted a photo of a human arm found in Illinois is running for Waukegan mayor. Sade Robinson's mom urges voters not to support him.

Jim Shell thought he could figure out how to target burbot on the reefs of the Illinois waters of Lake Michigan. And he did.

Numerous beaches in Lake County and McHenry County are closed for swimming until further notice after health officials say high levels of bacteria were detected in the water. The Lake County Health ...

High levels of bacteria have led to closures at several beaches across Chicago's northern suburbs.

Police agencies in Waukegan, Gurnee, Lindenhurst, Lake Villa with the Lake County Sheriff’s Office and Illinois State Police will collaborate Tuesday, July 1, on a regional effort to improve ...

A Waukegan man is in critical condition and five others, including several children, were hospitalized after a wrong-way ...

A horrific, fiery wrong way crash between a car & box truck on NB I-294 north of Golf Road has left one person dead & closed ...