Lake County (IL)

Five students are in custody after Highland Park High School was placed on lockdown Tuesday morning for reports of a student “potentially in possession of a gun.”

Charges were filed against a man accused of breaking into a shed and stealing a grill in Beach Park Saturday.

A lawmaker from Lake County is pushing for improved legislation to protect drivers who wrongfully receive automatic parking, traffic or speeding tickets.

An Illinois Senator has introduced a measure to regulate popular explosive shooting targets similar to those found in the home of the suspected Highland Park parade gunman.

A North Chicago man was charged with a DUI after crashing his car into a utility pole in Lake County last year. 

A glimmer of hope to find a missing Navy sailor in Waukegan was dashed on Tuesday.

Arrest warrants have been issued for three people accused of stealing checks from suburban mailboxes and fraudulently altering and cashing them.

The suburban bridge has been hit nearly four dozen times since it reopened in 2020 after a two-year rebuild.

A woman who survived last summer's mass shooting at a Fourth of July Parade in Highland Park pleaded for lawmakers to pass improved gun safety legislation after authorities announced three students and three staff members were shot to death Monday morning at a private elementary school in Nashville.

A witness told Waukegan police that they saw a vehicle traveling south on Lewis Avenue at a high rate of speed and that two vehicles appeared to start racing each other at the intersection of Lewis Avenue and York House Road.

Not one, but two lucky Illinois players hit all five numbers in the midday Lucky Day Lotto draw on Sunday.

An Amazon truck became lodged inside an historic bridge Sunday night in the northwest suburban Long Grove.

The search for a missing U.S. Navy sailor last seen on Saturday has been called off after officials combed the lake, shores, beaches and woods of north suburban Waukegan.