Numerous fire departments are responding to a second-alarm fire at a mobile home park in Beach Park where multiple homes ...

Mallory Baker, discuss a situation. (Steve Sadin/For the Lake County News-Sun) Not long ago, the Waukegan Fire Department received a call about an unresponsive woman. When the paramedics arrived ...

Over 500 people Wednesday morning participated in the Polar Bear Plunge event, which has been held annually for the past 26 years in Waukegan to benefit those with disabilities. | Photo: City of ...

Extensive delays were reported on the Union Pacific North line after a train fatally struck a pedestrian in Waukegan near the North Chicago border Thursday morning. The Waukegan Police Department and ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pearl Harbor survivor Harry Chandler, 102, of Tequesta, Fla., speaks to the media during the 82nd Pearl ...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (CBS) -- Hundreds of people kicked off the New Year on Wednesday by taking a nice cold dip in Lake Michigan. The water temperature was just under 40 degrees along the Lake Michigan ...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (WLS) -- What better way to jump into the new year than a dip in Lake Michigan. Hundreds of people woke up on New Year's Day to brave the 26th Annual Waukegan Polar Bear Plunge.

Police say they have identified a suspect in a recent Waukegan shooting in which a Zion man was killed during an exchange of gunfire. A 27-year-old Waukegan man has been arrested, and Waukegan ...