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The Antioch Taste of Summer festival features four days of fun, food, entertainment and crafts.

Vernon Hills Summer Celebration, one of Lake County's largest annual festivals continued, Saturday with a heapin' helpin'of food, rides, music and more.

There was kid-friendly activity and fun Saturday during the Splashes, Dashes and Spokes Youth Triathlon at James O. Breen Community Park in St. Charles.

A generous bride with the brightest of futures, Laura Szejka Zimmer left "a little bit of Laura" in everything she did before she died at age 26. Now her loved ones are urging others to spread "a little bit of Laura" by doing good deeds in the former Arlington Heights resident's memory.

Elgin firefighters reported a fire at the city's water treatment facility Friday but said there was no impact on water treatment operations.

A body found last month in a dumpster in Chicago's Southwest Side has been identified as a man who was reported missing from Naperville in January.

The Lake Zurich Lions Club kicked off its annual Alpine Fest Friday in Lion Fred Blau Park, 81 E. Main St., Lake Zurich. The fest runs through Sunday.

A fire has displaced some residents at an apartment complex on Yarmouth Place in Mount Prospect.

Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein has hired a new principal, officials announced Friday. Jason Huther, who most recently served as headmaster of a school in Kentucky, will start Aug. 3.

The two Gurnee Police officers who shot and killed a woman who was pointing a rifle at them in May acted reasonably and appropriately according to an investigation by the Lake County state's attorney's office.