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  • 1 week ago | chicagotribune.com | Steve Sadin

    Currently providing homeless residents of the community a roof over their heads in hotel rooms around the area, PADS Lake County is set to create a fixed-site shelter where unhoused families will have the resources nearby to become self-supporting. With a $2 million grant in hand from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO), PADS Executive Director Allen Swilley said the organization is primed to begin renovation on a shuttered motel to make it a permanent shelter.

  • 1 week ago | chicagotribune.com | Steve Sadin

    As Israel was bombing targets in Iran this week to neutralize its nuclear program and the Iranians were firing missiles at Israel, U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Highland Park, was in the Middle East listening to leaders in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Saudi Arabia.

  • 1 week ago | chicagotribune.com | Steve Sadin

    Beachgoers were thinning out at the Waukegan Municipal Beach with the temperature in the mid-80s Tuesday, while volleyball games continued and the Waukegan Band was preparing for its first concert of the summer, while children did art projects as their parents awaited the music.

  • 1 week ago | chicagotribune.com | Steve Sadin

    A number of Waukegan’s 69 taverns or restaurants with bars offer their customers entertainment in one form or another but none of the establishments are nightclubs as defined by the city’s Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) approved in a 6-3 vote of the City Council last July. Ald. Lynn Florian, 8th Ward, expressed concern at Monday’s City Council meeting that Encore Events was about to receive a nightclub endorsement from Mayor Sam Cunningham.

  • 1 week ago | chicagotribune.com | Steve Sadin

    Before Juneteenth (June 19) became a national holiday in 2021, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, it was already an official holiday in Waukegan since 2020, recognized by the city, the Waukegan Park District, and Waukegan Community Unit School District 60.

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Steve Sadin
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21 Nov 24

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4 May 24

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