Dan Moran

It is late February, and two solid signs of spring are in the air across Lake County: Rivers overflowing their banks, and road-construction crews firing up their engines. First we...

The following is a column that, for various reasons, I never wanted to write. I have long since realized the difference between want to and have to. I grew up...

After a long afternoon of suspense and speculation, the call came in at precicely 5:53 p.m. on Thurday, or just as the first flakes started to fly in western Lake...

Not every old movie theater is worth saving. Those of us who pinched pennies by watching the finest G-rated films of the 1990s on postage-stamp screens at The Dunes in...

The flood of 2018 political ads that began in mid-2017 has swollen from Des Plaines-River-in-spring to catastrophic-failure-of-the-Johnstown-dam in the past month, as our televisions have been inundated with not only...

The future doesn't always wait on the past, since the endless cycle of change only occasionally has time for sentiment. And this is especially true when it comes to neighborhood...

When the news broke almost exactly a year ago that Key Lime Cove — the Gurnee "waterpark resort" that opened to much fanfare in 2008 — was shutting down and...

Last week, it was noted that Jeff Bezos said thanks but no thanks to investing some of his many billions in a massive-scale redevelopment project for Waukegan. No harm, no...