Susan Kuczka

Lake County officials are teaming up with township and social service agency workers to beef up enrollment in KidCare, a state program that offers health-care coverage to children and pregnant...

Former Chicago city Treasurer Miriam Santos learned the hard way that the golden rule of politics is to never let a campaign be conducted on the public's dime. She spent...

A new branch court to handle traffic offenses and ordinance violations could be open as soon as next spring near Mundelein now that the Lake County Board has authorized the...

Lake County Republican Party Chairman John Schulien looks like the odd man out in the new map of the County Board's 23 districts. The board this week approved new district...

The wild, take-no-prisoners campaign for town president in Cicero tops a slew of municipal government contests and referendums facing Chicago-area voters when they go to the polls Tuesday. In Calumet...

County officials are urging residents, officials of government and non-government organizations and representatives of special-interest groups to attend meetings being held this month and next to receive input on the...

Former U.S. Rep. John Porter, who spent more than two decades representing residents of the northern suburbs in Congress, will now be representing clients at one of the more prestigious...

Lake County Board member Angelo Kyle (D-Waukegan) has announced his candidacy for the second vice presidency of the National Association of Counties, an organization that works to give county governments...

The Northern Illinois Police Alarm System, a consortium of suburban police departments, has received a $166,000 state grant to buy an armored vehicle that can be used in rescues and...

Attorney Newton Finn, the Waukegan community activist who lost his mayoral bid four years ago by a handful of votes, is expected this week to join a growing list of...