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Traffic has been down to one lane in each direction through a construction zone on Grand Avenue at Route 41, and that will continue to be the case through the winter, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation.

Moran: Grand Avenue’s ‘ongoing nightmare’ locks into winter configuration at Route 41 in Gurnee

December 11, 2018 at 6:09 p.m.

There was a festive holiday-season celebration in this space last weekend after the Illinois Department of Transportation let the word go forth to friend and foe alike that major construction...

George H.W. Bush, with his wife, Barbara, standing behind him and Illinois Gov. James R. Thompson sitting to his right, works the phones at a Libertyville campaign office in March 1988.

Moran: Lake County was an election battleground when Bush visited in 1988

December 11, 2018 at 4:46 p.m.

For about the next week, everyone will be here to both praise George H.W. Bush and to bury him in the literal sense. Most members of your family will use...

A tangle of detour signs tells the tale about travel conditions on Route 120 east of the Tri-State Tollway for much of 2018 as crews rebuild a series of bridge decks in the Gurnee/Park City/Waukegan area.

Moran: Rejoice, rejoice — Route 120 rebuild project set to re-open all lanes by Christmas

May 24, 2019 at 12:38 a.m.

If you have not enjoyed first-hand experience with the hot mess known as Route 120 in the Gurnee/Park City/Waukegan metroplex this year, let us turn to the observations sent in...

Try to resist the temptation to let your deep-frozen car warm up unattended as winter barrels into our lives.

Moran: ‘Multiple’ thefts of warming-up vehicles in Zion lead to community alert

May 24, 2019 at 12:37 a.m.

Your alleged high temperature in Lake County on the last Tuesday in November was 22 big degrees, which would be a reasonable if not pleasant day in mid-January. As it...

The Roberti Community House in Waukegan, which includes a Junior Green Youth Farm seen here in 2016, is among the recipients of funds raised by the annual Help Them to Hope campaign.

Moran: Help Them to Hope returns to shine a light on Lake County’s holiday season

May 24, 2019 at 12:37 a.m.

As Thanksgiving weekend 2018 rolls on, we return to words expressed in this space for Thanksgiving 2017 and the annual arrival of the News-Sun’s Help Them to Hope campaign, which...

Travelers line up at a TSA checkpoint at O'Hare International Airport on Thanksgiving weekend of 2015.

Moran: This Thanksgiving, travelers can be thankful if they don’t have to take off their shoes

May 24, 2019 at 12:36 a.m.

True story from a recent attempt to get through a Transportation Security Administration screening line on a weekday morning at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, known to local hipsters as SeaTac: I...

The Millennium Trail underpass at Grand Avenue near Lindenhurst is similar to a new tunnel that would run under Route 45 north of Milburn.

Moran: Lake County plans Millennium Trail bike underpass near Milburn

May 24, 2019 at 12:36 a.m.

When the transportation world decides to get cars out of the paths of railroads, the price tag is in the tens of millions of dollars — including the $33 million...

A mound of recycling items arrives at the Waste Management processing facility on Route 83 in Grayslake in October 2015.

Moran: Lake County recycling agency urges residents to ‘be smarter’ about what goes in the bin

December 11, 2018 at 10:04 p.m.

It is perhaps not for nothing that America Recycles Day comes one week before America will flood its kitchens and ask a critical question over and over: “Can this be...

Minard Hulse receives France's National Order of the Legion of Honor from French Deputy Consul General Jean-Pierre Tutin in July 1999 for Hulse's service in World War I.

Moran: On 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, remembering a visit with World War I veteran Minard Hulse

May 24, 2019 at 12:36 a.m.

The proverbially grainy black-and-white photos and rare choppy film clips that accompany this weekend’s 100th anniversary of Armistice Day will make World War I seem like a chapter from ancient...

Voters stand in a long line outside of an early voting and registration site in Chicago in Monday, also known as Election Day eve.

Moran: Early voting catches fire in a country that needs an Election Month

December 11, 2018 at 8:17 p.m.

Modern-age print deadlines being what they are, these humble musings on the state of our electoral process had to be written long before the polls closed on Election Day 2018,...

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