Lake Bluff News

Celebrations to honor America's 24 million living veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good will be held in both Lake Bluff and Lake Forest on Nov.

Nearly 100 Lake Forest residents who attended the city's first Town Hall meeting last Thursday night applauded after the 90-minute session, saying that they prefer the community-wide format over the ward-only meetings as a better way to get up-to-date information.

Seventeen attorneys have filed applications to succeed retired Associate Judge Victoria Martin, Chief Judge James Booras said Thursday.

The Illinois State Board of Education officially released the 2009 report cards for school districts in Lake Forest and Lake Bluff Oct.

With quarter grades for this semester looming in mailboxes all over Lake Forest and Lake Bluff, I am reminded that TVLand reruns have taught me multiple things about school/parent communication of the past.

The clerk at a Route 43 gas station in north suburban Lake Bluff was not injured Saturday evening when an armed gunman punctuated his holdup demands with a single shot into the floor.

The Medicine Ball sponsored by The Women's Board of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago was held on Sept.

Many school districts are noticing student absences because of flu-like symptoms, and districts in Lake Forest and Lake Bluff are no exception.

On Mawman Avenue near Route 176 in Lake Bluff, two white buildings stand nestled among prairie grass and nearby ravines.

The list of challengers was somewhat sparse on the first day of candidate filing for Lake County offices in the Feb.

The following incidents were listed among the official reports of the Lake Forest and Lake Bluff Police Departments.

A recent sweep by the Lake County Underage Drinking Prevention Task Force netted 25 violations for liquor sales to minors.

The future of Lake Bluff's wading pool and main pool at Blair Community Park will be discussed at public meetings in December following a decision by the Lake Bluff Park District Board of Commissioners Monday night.

By the end of the month, village officials will decide whether the proposal to build a pedestrian tunnel at Route 176 will move forward or become a pipe dream buried by financial concerns.

Car thieves struck a pair of luxury auto dealerships this past weekend. Thieves drove off with seven luxury cars from a Lake Bluff dealership and 11 luxury cars from a Goose Island lot.

A brazen Chicago car thief has pretty good taste in automobiles. Cops are trying to connect two separate car heists that have left area car dealers stunned, although they currently have no idea if a pair of similar thefts are related.

A trio of brazen Chicago car thieves have pretty good taste in automobiles. Unfortunately the alleged thieves are not too bright because surveillance cameras caught their every move.

Three men were arrested for their roles in the thefts of nearly a dozen vehicles from a Lexus dealership just west of downtown, Chicago police said this afternoon.

Seven luxury cars, valued at a total of more that $325,000, were stolen from Imperial Motors Jaguar of Lake Bluff between Friday evening and Saturday morning.

Lake Bluff-based Mariani Landscape has been recognized with an Honor Award in Communications by the Illinois Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for its design exhibit "Hope for the Healing Planet" at the 2009 Chicago Flower and Garden Show.