Gurnee News

PAUL VALADE/pvalade@dailyherald.com Lake County officials will vote Tuesday on an agreement with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency for a grant of $750,000 to cover the cost of demolition, site restoration and project management of the 1950s-era Gurnee Grade School.

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Following a morning at an eerily empty Six Flags Great America - except for random media that converged on Gurnee from Chicago and Milwaukee A - several thoughts jumped out of the old notebook.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed a lawsuit against a Chicago area "storm chaser" home repair firm for failing to complete contracted projects and for failing to pay its supplier, resulting in thousands of dollars of liens put on customers' homes .

Tom Tinetti , 15, of Vernon Hills, Nathan Stark, 19, of Milwaukee and Jeremie Kowalik, 17, of Libertyville ride the Batman roller coaster backwards at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee.

This female duck has decided to build her nest at the Gurnee, IL Walmart garden center.

United Way of Lake County has teamed up with Six Flags Great America in Gurnee for a special promotion called "Coasters For A Cause." This program allows United Way to sell Great America admission tickets to the public for a substantially reduced price and helps raise funds for the organization.

Jean Flanigan Clark, 89, formerly of Gurnee and Columbus, Ohio, died May 1, 2013 in Libertyville after a short illness.

Laremont School student Odester Daniels, 15, of Zion smiles as she has her nails decorated by Rachel Becker, 16, of Gurnee with Kristina Kouris of Glenview and Anna Lisy-Waltenberger of Grayslake.

Twenty-four years ago, Vicki Roberts of Gurnee watched Make-A-Wish grant the wish of a close friend's 8-year-old daughter.

When Darius Paul announced he was transferring from Western Michigan University and continuing his college basketball career elsewhere, the University of Illinois seemed like one of the more obvious destinations.

Students from the Rebecca McCarthy School of Dance McDance Company perform in a previous edition of Celtic Fest at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates.

No drugs or contraband were found Friday during a search of Woodland Middle School by canine units from Gurnee Police Department and other area law enforcement agencies, Woodland Elementary District 50 officials said.

David L. Rahn Junior High Principal Kip Crandall waves from the roof of the Mount Morris school.

Gurnee-based Woodland Elementary District 50 officials plan to continue calling attention to what they say is an unfair method of how state-approved charter schools are formed.

One Warren High School student from the O'Plaine Road campus in Gurnee is recovering in the hospital after being shot in the back of the leg along with another 17-year-old Waukegan friend while in the parking lot of Willow Wind apartments on Delany Road in Waukegan.

Cyberphobe, left, and Kentucky Gal duked it out in the first race on opening day last year at Arlington Park in Arlington Heights.

Gurnee, Il based consumer packaged goods company, Quest Products, Inc. has announced it is adding a new item to its current range of health and beauty products, the Guardian for Men for light male incontinence.

The Lake County Division of Transportation cited several groups for their involvement in its Adopt-A-Highway program, which marks its 20th year.

As their name implies, floodwater mosquitoes are the insult to injury after too much rain overwhelms rivers and storm drains.