The Little Fort Film Festival is now accepting submissions for its inaugural event, a celebration of the power of ...

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 ...

Hilary Nangle A big reason visitors come to Bar Harbor in the first place is that the town is the gateway to Acadia National Park. The park wraps around Bar Harbor, and even some of its smaller ...

The April 1 race for Waukegan mayor will likely have four candidates on the ballot following a Waukegan Board of Elections ruling. On Dec 17, the Election Board overruled two sets of objections to ...

Police shut down Lewis Avenue between Monroe Street to Washington Street in Waukegan Wednesday morning while an investigation was conducted into a fatal hit-and-run crash of a pedestrian. | Photo: ...

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a Metra train on the Union Pacific North line Thursday morning, between Waukegan and North Chicago, a Metra spokesperson confirmed. The age or identity of the ...

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 ...

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. (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 ...