Lake Barrington News

Lake Barrington officials were poised Tuesday night to buy 29 acres at the northwest corner of Route 14 and Cuba Road for natural restoration.

Some Lake Barrington residents are preparing to tell village officials just how much they don't want a new cellular antenna near their homes at Thursday's plan commission hearing.

Lake County Republican lawmakers called for a state budget that would eliminate new spending initiatives and make pension and Medicaid reforms, but one that would not slash funding for social services or raise the state's income tax.

Shaon Berry, a youth football coach and former University of Pittsburgh football player, has joined forces with former NFL player and coach Martin Bayless to run Juniorrank.com's first youth football combine for players sixth through ninth grade.

When word came out that Shaon Berry's Juniorrank.com would launch its first-ever youth football combine for athletes in sixth through ninth grade on June 27 at the state-of-the-art Lake Barrington Fieldhouse, no doubt this question popped up: Isn't that a little too young to start these kids? Rich McGuinness, founder of Football University, which ...

A 16-year-old Barrington High School student was struck and killed by a Metra train in Lake County early Tuesday.

Three new board members, including Sherman Hospital's director of oncology services, recently were appointed to the two governing boards at Hospice of Northeastern Illinois in Barrington.

Patrick and Carol Hannagan, who have owned a wholesale fresh-fish business for a dozen years, are changing their business plan as the economy changes.

Spelling, as my computer constantly reminds me, has become one of those things like blacksmithing or newspaper columning.

One of Tasmania's iconic sport and recreation destinations, Lake Barrington, is currently being assessed for future sport, recreation and commercial opportunities.

Lake Barrington's newly installed village board has unanimously endorsed a resolution aimed at setting behavioral standards for all future village elections.

The driver who ran a red light and killed a Lake Zurich motorcyclist was applying nail polish at the time, Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran said Monday.

Two people were killed over the weekend in unrelated driving accidents in Lake County.

CRYSTAL LAKE – Operation Click, a nonprofit that encourages high school students to drive safely, will be giving away cars to regional high school students today.

A Hall of Fame coach is taking over the girls basketball program at Stevenson High School.

When former Lake Barrington Village President Dorothy "Connie" Schofield decided to re-enter local politics and run for village trustee, she said her main motivation was helping Trustee Jean Vonder Haar unseat Village President Kevin Richardson.

It could have been worse had he answered the call right there. A northwest suburban Lake Barrington resident, whose cell phone rang while standing before Lake County Circuit Judge John Phillips on Monday, made the situation worse by running out of the room while the judge was hearing motions in his case.

I turned all my house and garage lights on at 8:30 p.m. Saturday night and left them on until 10:30 p.m. Global warming is the best hoax ever.

Doggies large and small wag their tails and otherwise strut their stuff at Animal House Shelter Inc., on Ernesti Road on the edge of Huntley.

Government officials from 47 entities taxing the West and Northwest suburbs spent nearly $2.5 million last year on outside lobbyists to influence state policy and spending, a watchdog agency says.