Winthrop Harbor News

The city of Zion has been celebrating the Fourth of July in some fashion every year since 1901, according to parks and recreation director Rich Walker.

Lake County is attempting to recover from powerful storms that brought surges of lighting, thunder and heavy rains late Friday into early Saturday.

Lake County is attempting to recover from powerful storms that brought surges of lighting, thunder and heavy rains late Friday into early Saturday.

Two Lake County Correctional officers who were on probation resigned under pressure after they were accused of trying to start fights in a Round Lake Heights tavern.

A recent tip helped police clear a dozen recent burglaries. Police said Tuesday they received information that Emily Machonga, 19, of Winthrop Harbor sold a person a Tomtom GPS unit that allegedly had been taken in a car burglary.

Saturday the Winthrop Harbor Fire Department celebrated its 60th anniversary. Past and current firefighters at the paid-on-premise department celebrated with a nearly daylong event, which featured a memorial, a parade and a picnic.

Two Lake County correction's officers have been placed on administrative leave, after patrons at a Round Lake Heights bar complained that the two men were picking fights early Thursday morning.

The Kirk Players are bringing "Harvey," the engaging comic tale of a man and his invisible 6 1/2 foot tall rabbit, to the stage at Mundelein High School June 12-13. This Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Mary Chase debuted on Broadway in 1944 and was filmed in 1950 with Jimmy Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd, a genial alcoholic whose best friend is a pooka, ...

"Yes, I made it!" exclaimed a fourth-grader from Westfield Elementary School after she made it through the slalom course of the Police Department's first Bike Rodeo on Tuesday.

It was the volunteers turn to sit back, relax and enjoy a good meal during a luncheon in their honor Thursday at Warren Township Senior Center.

Phyllis Weiss awoke in the middle of the night, her arms flailing wildly. She tried to speak but couldn't. Her right side was paralyzed.

Air Force Airman Ian Calvert , son of Bruce and Tracey Calvert of Antioch; Air Force Airman Matthew Phillips , son of Shawn Phillips of Winthrop Harbor; Air Force Airman Serge Krapivner , son of Oksana Krapivner of Round Lake; and Air Force Airman 1st Class Ryan Boorsma , son of Steve and Carla Boorsma of Island Lake, graduated from basic military ...

Andrew Leinonen was the gorilla who chased the bananas. No, that's not some clever analogy for life's endless journey.

A Winthrop Harbor woman was airlifted with serious injuries Monday afternoon from the scene of a one-car accident on 29th Street east of Green Bay Road.

Food Network star Guy Fieri was at The Shanty in Wadsworth Tuesday, and everyone there cheered.

Police turned an anonymous tip and a defaced gun into a federal arrest in an alleged solicitation-for-murder scheme.

The house lights dimmed in AMC Northbrook 14 as movie-goers settled in for a Saturday morning showing of DreamWorks' "Monsters vs.

Beach Park incumbent Mayor Milton Jensen defeated opponent Trustee Linda Sittig in the mayoral race, taking about 65 percent of the votes, according to preliminary results.

A former employee is suing the Lake County Circuit Clerk's Office and Clerk Sally Coffelt, claiming Coffelt fired her for political reasons.

Love INC of Lake County has noticed a recent change in its clientele. Since Christmas, an "increasing number" of middle-class people have sought help finding food, shelter and household items, said Marlene Compton, Lake County program director of Love INC .