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: Motorcyclist injured in Wauconda accident
A motorcyclist was transported to Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington after being involved in a Thursday morning accident in Wauconda.
Cycle crash near Wauconda snarls traffic
Wauconda fire officials responded to an accident on Route 176 at Forest Garden Road, about one half mile west of Route 12.
Horak pleads guilty; will serve 14 years
Tiffany Horak finally entered her guilty plea Wednesday and accepted a prison sentence that will put her behind bars until at least 2019.
Woman to plead guilty to child sex assault
A Wauconda Township woman is set to plead guilty to sexually assaulting a young relative.
School official pleads guilty to battery
Wauconda school board member Nicholas Batson was sentenced to 6 months in jail and 2 years probation Thursday after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor domestic battery charge.
Gypsy moths on countywide picnic
This has been such a good year for gypsy moths that two majestic oaks that usually shade Zion-Benton Moose Lodge's picnic grove in Zion have been stripped bare of leaves.
It is the biggest Civil War re-enactment that Lake County sees in a typical year, though Sunday's display at Lakewood Forest Preserve is a mere skirmish compared to what they saw two weeks ago in the hills of ...
Civil War Days relive the 1860s
Kids can talk to Abe Lincoln and Generals Lee and Custer and play games that kids played in the 1860s at Civil War Days today and Sunday at the Lakewood Forest Preserve in Wauconda.
County puts permit facility into motion
Construction could begin next month on Lake County's proposed new central permitting facility in Libertyville.
Living markers tamed wilderness
Before there were highways, local Native Americans had a system of trails marked by bent trees.
Car show revs single-parent miracles
Monica Adriansen was hoping that the Batmobile, the Ghostbusters' ambulance and her 1968 Dodge Charger would make the lives of single parents easier down the road.
Fitness buff Chester is ready for a good home
Obviously a fitness and exercise buff, Chester walked through the revolving doors of a Skokie health club one day.
Wauconda giving away free CFL bulbs
Free compact fluorescent light bulbs are available to village residents while supplies last.
Funeral held for woman killed in Iraq
These were just a few of the words used to describe Nicole Suveges today as family and friends gathered to honor her memory in Wauconda.
Lake Co. district marks pet fences with flags
Lake County Forest Preserve District officials on Tuesday marked relatively new fences near a Wauconda-area dog park with colored flags after learning a few pets were injured when they ran into the barriers.
Former Mundelein woman killed in Iraq
A political scientist with Lake County ties was among those killed in a bombing in Iraq, her family confirmed.
Updated 6/27: Former local student, Wauconda resident, dies in Iraq attack
A Wauconda woman serving in Iraq was one of 10 people, including four Americans, killed during a bombing in Iraq.
Services set for woman killed in Iraq
Visitation for Nicole Suveges, a former Lake County resident who was killed in Iraq, is from 3 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Kisselburg Wauconda Funeral Home, 235 N. Main St.
Blast kills 3 U.S. troops as Iraq violence spikes
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed three U.S. soldiers in northern Iraq, the military said Wednesday, in a spike of violence that pushed to at least nine the number of Americans who have died in Iraq this ...
Civilian employee from Wauconda killed in Iraq
An American civilian killed in a bomb blast in the Baghdad Shiite district of Sadr City was identified today as a political scientist from Illinois.