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The Learn Early Childhood Center is funded by the ISBE’s Early Childhood Block Grant, which aims to expand access to early childhood education in communities identified as high need.

Area fire departments, including Zion, Winthrop Harbor and Beach Park, say they’ve seen an increase in water-related calls since the completion of a $73 million beach restoration at Illinois Beach...

The town hall was part of the American Legion’s broader System Worth Saving initiative, which aims to improve the VA health care system through site visits.

The island served as a hunting retreat for decades, well into the 2000s, but it went quiet more than a decade ago.

A firearm was not secured and was accessible to children at the home for daycare services, police said.

The Wirtz family has big dreams for the 800 acres -- Ivanhoe Village, a self-described “traditional neighborhood development.”