Susan Kuczka

The Vernon Hills Police Department will be using a grant from the Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists to conduct Operation Silver Star, a program aimed at removing drunken drivers from the...

One week after undergoing an angioplasty to clear a clogged coronary artery, freshman state Rep. Timothy Osmond (R-Antioch) was back at his desk in Springfield on Tuesday preparing for the...

An attorney for the Village of Round Lake asked a Lake County Circuit Court judge on Tuesday to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the results of the April 13 municipal election....

The Illinois General Assembly has approved a bill sponsored by state Sen. Adeline Geo-Karis (R-Zion) and state Rep. Lauren Beth Gash (D-Highland Park) to increase penalties for people who repeatedly...

Legislation that would hold boaters, snowmobile operators and all-terrain vehicle drivers to the same criminal standard as motorists who recklessly cause someone's death is expected to be signed into law...

Virginia Wood, a Village of Green Oaks trustee and the chairwoman of the Libertyville Township Republican Party, is the new general manager of North Point Marina at Illinois Beach State...

Lake County Clerk Willard Helander is assuring voters that even if they did not vote in the February primary they are eligible to vote in the April 13 general election...

The National Association of Counties, which represents county governments nationwide, has appointed Lake County Board member David Stolman (R-Buffalo Grove) to its Taxation and Finance Steering Committee. "I am looking...

In her fall campaign for the General Assembly's 59th District House seat along Lake Michigan, freshman state Rep. Susan Garrett (D-Lake Forest) heard numerous complaints about traffic during her visits...

After years in an economic deep freeze, the brawny, blue-collar towns that encircle Chicago--Aurora, Elgin, Joliet and Waukegan--are hot again. Aggressive and sometimes involuntary annexations have sparked turnarounds, to the...