Mettawa News

This year's Lake County Fair Queen contestants won't be competing with the noise of the demolition derby as they give their speeches, but the excitement of hosting the event at the new fairgrounds is expected to generate its own buzz, said pageant director Alyce Brownlee.

When a nearly 150-year-old tree died on Cheryl Pytlarz's property in Mettawa, a new life was actually just beginning.

Like weeds after a wet spring, road construction projects have begun to multiply in Lake County.

Homeowners and homebuyers can get an in-depth look at the predominant tax rates throughout Lake County by using a new feature on the county clerk's Web site.

Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center's Out of the Blues concert on March 19 at Chicago's House of Blues, featuring Grammy winner Richard Marx, spread the good news of the Lake County advocacy and prevention center southward into Chicago.

The SEDOL Foundation raised $130,000 at its 18th annual "Heart of Gold" event in Kildeer.

After counting the final absentee votes and provisional ballots, the new mayor for Mettawa is challenger Jess Ray, who beat out incumbent Barry MacLean by just three votes.

The newly restored Adlai E. Stevenson Historic Home in Mettawa will be open for guided tours this spring.

County residents gave a big thumbs up on the question of whether Route 53 should be extended through the heart of the county and most of the other 12 nonschool referendum questions on the ballot were defeated.

The luck of the toss could end up settling the mayoral election in North suburban Mettawa.

It appears that the tie vote for mayor in the small village of Mettawa, near Libertyville, will be decided by a coin toss unless more ballots show up.

About 50 patrons and friends of the Lake Forest Symphony were invited to spend the evening of Valentine's Day at Mettawa Manor, the home of Donna LaPietra and Bill Kurtis.

The village of Mettawa will have a new leader after Jess Ray defeated longtime Mayor Barry MacLean by a nearly 2-to-1 margin Tuesday.

Candidates on both sides in the race for four-year terms on the Mettawa village board agree that preserving and enhancing the bucolic surroundings of the small town is a priority.

Voters in Mettawa will vote on three referendum questions that are advisory only.

The National Assn. of Industrial Office Properties recognizes the LEED Gold-certified HSBC's North American headquarters.

New office buildings downtown and in the suburbs and the renovation of a historic hotel garnered honors Wednesday night at the Chicago Commercial Real Estate Awards dinner, considered the industry's equivalent ...

Grayslake Park District residents will be asked to approve a tax increase April 7 that would finance the purchase of 70 acres on the northwest corner of Washington and Lake streets, currently a cornfield next ...

A site that was originally envisioned for a new Costco development in Lake Forest will instead be preserved as open space by the Lake County Forest Preserve District.

Despite being relatively unknown when he challenged veteran Democratic state Sen.