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Six Flags officials are scheduled to announce on Thursday, Aug. 30, what will be constructed on the site of the demolished Pictorium in 2019.

Moran: The forecast calls for random guesses as Great America prepares ride announcement

May 24, 2019 at 12:29 a.m.

It has become a late-summer ritual within the culture of thrill-ride enthusiasts hovering above Six Flags Great America: The next big thing is coming; let us guess what it will...

Moran: Roadblock at Route 120 railroad crossing a bane to traffic, especially trucks

December 12, 2018 at 7:46 p.m.

Warnings were expressed in plain words that almost seemed borrowed from a spectral figure at the start of a horror film: “This road will be closed for 10 days.” Another...

One of the ominous road construction signs you will ever encounter has been posted on busy Route 120 west of Hainesville Road in recent weeks.

Moran: Route 120 railroad-crossing repair arrives as buses start to roll for school

May 24, 2019 at 12:29 a.m.

A confluence can be a naturally beautiful thing that lends itself to forward progress, such as how the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers come together in Pittsburgh and fuel distribution...

A sign warning the public not to swim in the channel south of Waukegan Municipal Beach is posted in this file photo from 2016. A teen was pulled from Lake Michigan on Friday after trying to swim the channel.

Boy pulled from Lake Michigan near Waukegan Harbor dies

May 24, 2019 at 12:28 a.m.

A 14-year-old boy who went under while trying to swim across a channel between Waukegan Harbor and the city's beach at about 6 p.m. Friday has died. Lake County Coroner...

Eric Olson of Round Lake (left) and John Curto of Third Lake hike through the alpine environment as they near the top of Huron Peak in central Colorado.

Moran: How a Flatlander can get literally Rocky Mountain high

May 24, 2019 at 12:28 a.m.

On a brilliantly sunny and silent Tuesday morning, you find yourself sitting on a flat rock atop Huron Peak, a full 14,000 feet above sea level — 14,003, if you’re...

Just one of the hundreds of pristine lakes that dot the Northwoods of Wisconsin -- in this case, Escanaba Lake in Vilas County.

Moran: Getting (mostly) off the grid deep in Wisconsin’s Northwoods

May 24, 2019 at 12:28 a.m.

If we're being technical about the upper reaches of Wisconsin, is it North Woods or Northwoods? And on which syllable do we place the accent? And if we're talking about...

The recent near-completion of a Cedar Lake Road expansion in Round Lake Beach is a sign of more ambitious plans to come from the Lake County Division of Transportation.

Moran: Lake County DOT puts money behind concepts with updated five-year plan

December 12, 2018 at 6:27 p.m.

The opening days of summer’s final month delivered evidence that, every once in a while, promises of road improvements eventually come true, even in the land of an unrealized dream...

The public was invited to attend the first open house hosted by the Tri-County Access Project, a new transportation-improvement study sponsored by the Illinois Tollway.

Moran: The Tri-County Access Project revives memories of extending Route 53

December 12, 2018 at 10:23 p.m.

When some of us first started tracking the Route 53 saga, Gurnee Mills was a construction site and Michael Jordan had no rings. At that point, the concept of a...

Development of an Okabe Co. manufacturing facility south of the Lake County Fairgrounds blocks the view of the fair's midway, which can sort of be seen in the background.

Moran: March of progress changes the landscape around the Lake County Fairgrounds

December 12, 2018 at 10:02 p.m.

It has suddenly been 10 years this month since the Lake County Fair opened and closed for the last time at routes 45 and 120 in Grayslake, where the annual...

Grand Avenue is set for resurfacing in Gurnee along a nearly three-mile stretch that includes the Gurnee Mills area, home to more than 42,000 vehicles per day.

Moran: Grand Avenue repaving near Gurnee Mills, Route 53 discussion on the midsummer menu

May 24, 2019 at 12:27 a.m.

If this were mid- to late January, the traffic alerts would arrive on the teeth of a snowstorm driven by winds out of Alberta. This being mid- to late July,...

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