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Maine Township High School District 207 has hired two educators to serve as interim principals at Maine West High School in Des Plaines after the retirement of Audrey Haugan.

Veronica C. Jordan, 29, of the 200 block of Laurel Drive, North Aurora, was charged with retail theft at 10:06 p.m. Wednesday at Kohl's, 251 N. Randall Road, police said.

A homeless man and child sex offender was arrested Thursday on felony charges he was loitering around Festival Park and splash pad in downtown Elgin.

Luke Harrod Hutson, 18, of Barrington, who played on the Barrington High School varsity football and hockey teams, was killed in an accident July 5 while he was riding on a four-wheel all-terrain vehicle in Breckenridge, Colorado.

A 56-year-old Aurora man has pleaded not guilty to charges he was impersonating a Warrenville police officer.

The landscape in Lake County is expected to change with the installation of boxes the size of small refrigerators on utility poles, traffic signal arms and elsewhere.

More than 150 children were evacuated Friday morning after a gas leak in Vernon Hills.

Soccer stars from the suburbs -- both with and without disabilities -- are joining in a new international tournament coming to Toyota Park in Bridgeview July 17 to 20.

Lake County jail guards save North Chicago woman by administering Naloxone.

Moving day is rapidly approaching at the Lake County courthouse. Felony criminal courts will essentially be shut down July 23 in order to move courtrooms and judges to the new court tower at 301 Washington St.