Clifford Ward

1 week ago | chicagotribune.com | Clifford Ward

An elderly Lakemoor woman has died after a weekend two-car crash, according to the Lake County Coroner’s Office. Judith Was, 85, died at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, where she was brought following the collision. According to authorities, the crash happened at about 9:20 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of Sullivan Lake Road and Illinois Route 120. Lakemoor police and Wauconda firefighters responded to the crash and transported Was, who was driving one of the vehicles.

2 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Clifford Ward

The man recently charged in the 2021 road-rage killing of a Waukegan college student has been ordered detained in jail until trial. Lake County prosecutors sought the detention for Llovani Gomez, who is facing murder and other charges in the shooting death of Daniel Lobo, who was a 22-year-old student at Southern Illinois University. Lobo was in a car whose occupants became involved in a roadway altercation in the early morning hours of Nov.

2 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Clifford Ward

A North Chicago man has been charged with illegal weapons sales, including selling kits to convert firearms into machine guns, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. Eric Raines-Sylvestre, 20, of the 2000 block of Sherman Avenue, was taken into custody on gun-sale and other charges handed down earlier this month by a statewide grand jury, police said. The sheriff’s office said it learned through a tip that Raines-Sylvestre was illegally selling weapons.

2 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Clifford Ward

A woman was critically injured when the ATV she was driving with two children on board crashed into a tree near Ingleside, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said. The children, boys ages 7 and 11, sustained minor injuries. The woman, however, a 25-year-old Lubbock, Texas resident, was transported to a hospital in critical condition with head injuries, police said. The accident happened at about 5:20 p.m. Monday in the 27000 block of Chris Larkin Road.

2 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Clifford Ward

A Mount Prospect man was killed and his passenger seriously injured in a two-car collision in Deer Park, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. The collision happened at about 10:20 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of Lake Cook and Ferndale roads, authorities said. Police said the Mount Prospect man, 71, and his passenger, a 62-year-old Mount Prospect woman, were headed west on Lake Cook when a vehicle traveling east turned left into their path, police said.