Waukegan News

Suspects in two different Monday night armed robberies were taken into custody by Waukegan police, and one of the suspects was hospitalized with a gunshot wound inflicted by a victim.

It was a very bad math teacher who persuaded Mother Mary Clarice to become a very good math teacher.

Replicas of two of Christopher Columbus' ships are scheduled to spend nearly a week at Waukegan Harbor beginning July 29.

It's not just the good music that keeps bringing the Rev. Gehl and Doris Devore to see the Waukegan Municipal Band.

Former Waukeganite Jim Bittermann, senior European correspondent for CNN, has been awarded France's highest decoration.

Every year come July, the Waukegan Historical Society acts as a beacon, pointing the way to its city's many historic, handsomely appointed, thoughtfully designed and restored homes-- from mansions to bungalows.

Waukegan Mayor Bob Sabonjian rebuked Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran for a media briefing earlier this week in which Curran decried the proposed layoffs of Waukegan police, firefighters and service employees because of an estimated budget deficit of $3.5 million.

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Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran denounced and condemned Waukegan Mayor Robert Sabonjian's proposed layoffs of the city's police, fire and service personnel Monday evening.

Firefighters, police officers, and union leaders packed a Waukegan City Council meeting to voice their concerns about proposed layoffs, Monday.

In 1927, a large red-brick brick house was built for Earl and Dulcie Potter, owners of Potter Manufacturing.

Police arrested a juvenile in connection with a fire that damaged a north suburban Waukegan classroom last week.

Eight suspects are charged in connection with 18 residential burglaries in Waukegan from late February through the end of June, Police Chief Artis Yancey announced Thursday.

The city's own version of Springfield's budget crisis has played out this week, as aldermen have met in separate groups with Mayor Robert Sabonjian to review options in the face of a shortfall estimated last month at $6.5 million.

Three men and a 15-year-old boy were arrested after police found them getting into a car filled with a large amount of electronics and cell phones early Monday in Gurnee.

Twenty-four entries in nine categories were selected out of some 101 candidates for honors in last weekend's annual American Independence Parade sponsored by the Waukegan Park District.

A Kane County judge today sentenced former Green Oaks mayor and Lake County Republican chairman Tom Adams to 30 months probation on child porn charges.

Four Waukegan teens accused of breaking into cars parked at the Key Lime Cove resort in Gurnee pleaded guilty Monday in Lake County Circuit Court.

Authorities in Waukegan say they have charged five people in a string of 20 armed robberies in McHenry and Lake counties, as well as in southeastern Wisconsin.

A northern Illinois man has again been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 1992 rape, stabbing and strangling of an 11-year-old baby sitter.