The incoming call showed the number of Grayslake School District 46. Dang. What did The Boy do now? Better let it go to voicemail so we can hear what we're...
When it came time for Clint Eastwood to cast someone as a "check airman" who scrutinizes the life-or-death decisions made over the Hudson River by Capt. Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger,...
The now-proverbial Perfect Storm of holiday traffic boiled up on Labor Day for motorists trying to escape back from Wisconsin, as everyone driving home to Lake County from the Dells...
The death of another star from the peak years of the Baby Boom generated a little more nostalgia than usual this week, since Gene Wilder starred in some of the...
For those of you warming up the engine to flee town one more time before summer takes a bow, the Illinois Tollway reports no construction zones will be in your...
Way back in November 1999, Hollywood paid one of its frequent visits to Waukegan, shutting down the Amstutz Expressway on a particularly autumnal day to film an accident scene for...
It was Aug. 23 on the calendar, and students at Golda Meir School Upper Campus were advised the three-day Bridge Program — probably known as "orientation" to the rest of...
Dr. Mark Hammergren calls it "the orange sky" — the hazy blend of street lights and other man-made illumination that tends to obscure celestial wonders after sunset in an urban...
Having traveled something like 1,600 miles across five states on two separate road trips during the month of August, I can say this with certainty: Just because you're rolling along...
As we watch 21st-century examples of the Olympic motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius" — "Faster, Higher, Stronger," for those of us who weren't subjected to compulsory Latin — we're invited to...