Gurnee News

Six Flags Great America guests participate in the world record attempt for the most people showering in the world's largest shower Thursday in Gurnee.

Approval of a $157 floral bill at Monday's Gurnee Village Board meeting became a point of contention for new trustee Kirk Morris, who suggested the village seek competitive bids for flower purchases instead of always using trustee Jeanne Balmes' floral business, which happens to be the only flower shop in town.

After a month's grace period in which motorists received warnings for violations in Gurnee intersections equipped with new red-light cameras, on Monday such violations began triggering $100 fines.

Recent Augustana College grad Stefanie Leafblad of Gurnee is an idealistic young woman, who this summer put a master's degree in speech pathology on hold to help children in the Third World.

A 19-year-old Gurnee man who jumped from an overpass onto Interstate 94 two weeks ago has been charged with reckless conduct, police said Tuesday.

After 15 years, the JCPenney outlet store in Gurnee Mills is scheduled to close around Sept.

Of all the national holidays, July 4 is the one on which Americans are most encouraged to celebrate.

A freight train fatally struck a woman early Friday in an unincorporated area near Gurnee.

Lake County Sheriff's police are investigating the death of a Park City woman struck and killed by a freight train early Friday morning in unincorporated Gurnee.

The story is the same but there are quirkier characters in Marc Robin's contemporary musical take on "Cinderella," at Marriott Theatre for Young Audiences, 10 Marriott Dr., Lincolnshire, July 8-Aug. 29.

Police and rescue workers are on the scene of a roll over accident at the corner of Route 45 and Stearns School Road in Gurnee.

Three men and a 15-year-old boy were arrested after police found them getting into a car filled with a large amount of electronics and cell phones early Monday in Gurnee.

Reduced lanes, alternate routes and bumper to bumper traffic have been the unpleasant aspects of road construction throughout Gurnee the last few months for drivers.

Aldermen have tightened the youth curfew ordinance by beginning curfew an hour earlier to improve community safety and security.

The Village of Gurnee will undergo a village-wide adult mosquito control treatment during the evening hours on Sunday continuing into the morning hours on Monday, weather permitting.

There was a strong consensus among boat, recreational vehicle and haul trailer owners who park on residential lots that zoning ordinance tinkering is unnecessary.

An Illinois State Police trooper was struck by a car on Interstate 94 near Gurnee Thursday afternoon as he attempted to close lanes to protect an apparent suicidal man threatening to jump from a nearby overpass.

The Gurnee business community is ready for its own chamber of commerce, said Mayor Kristina Kovarik at a kick-off event attended by at least 200 merchants June 17.

Some complaints received by Gurnee village board members and a desire to update local laws led to a discussion Wednesday night on whether tighter regulations should be placed on recreational vehicle parking in residential neighborhoods.

The National Weather Service said flood warnings for the Des Plaines River in Gurnee will continue until Thursday and the Chain O'Lakes and Fox River are under no-wake restrictions.