Susan Kuczka

State Rep. Verna Clayton (R-Buffalo Grove) announced Tuesday that she intends to retire at the end of her third term in January 1999 as the General Assembly representative from the...

For the first time in years, voters throughout Lake County appear willing to approve tax increases and bond issues to build schools and expand educational programs to serve a booming...

Supporters of the referendum proposal to issue $6.8 million in alternate revenue bonds to build a community recreational center are so incensed by opponents' tactics that they've brought their complaints...

Rose Gray, a 17-year veteran probation officer in the Lake County Courthouse who recently was promoted to supervisor of the court services pretrial unit, has been named court services officer...

The Waukegan Area League of Women Voters will hold a forum for candidates seeking election to the Woodland School District 50 Board in the Nov. 4 election. Eleven candidates are...

Rep. Andrea Moore (R-Libertyville), among several contenders to be gubernatorial candidate George Ryan's runningmate, announced this week that she will seek re-election to her 61st District House seat. "We led...

Valery E. Gallagher, the executive director of the Lake County Republican Federation for five years, is leaving her post on Oct. 31 to join the government affairs staff of Abbott...

The benefits of a regional approach to planning suburban growth will be among the topics of a special forum Saturday sponsored by the Lake County Conservation Alliance at the College...

Saying that education is one of the best ways to keep gangs from invading a community, state Rep. Lauren Beth Gash (D-Highland Park) is sponsoring a gang-awareness symposium at Deerfield...

Waukegan Mayor William F. Durkin's attorney said Tuesday that community activist Newton Finn's efforts to overturn the results of the April general election are simply delaying the inevitable. "When it's...