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Wieland Metals Inc., a Germany-based copper manufacturing company, wants to build a 110,000-square-foot industrial building on about 11 acres at the intersection of Lake-Cook Road and Northgate Parkway in Wheeling.

After 15 years without a Bensenville address, White Pines Golf Club may soon be brought back into the village.

In-car cameras will be installed in nine Vernon Hills police patrol vehicles.

Lake County Division of Transportation officials will host the last of three public hearings next week for an intersection improvement study of Ela Road and Long Grove Road in Barrington and Deer Park.

Barrington Area Unit District 220 board members have approved a slew of summer facility projects, including security camera upgrades, fire alarm imrpovements and restroom renovations.

Two political newcomers have been tapped to replace a pair of veteran Stevenson High School trustees who recently resigned.

The city of Batavia has sold a historic downtown building that it never intended to own for so long. The Thomle Building, at 2 E. Wilson St., will be sold for $160,000 to Bill and Jamie Koc. It will house Jamie Koc's Heart of the Home kitchen and bathroom design firm.

Dundee Township will acquire about 70 acres of open space from Sleepy Hollow to ensure the wetland property is properly preserved.

Great Wolf Lodge and water park opens in Gurnee with Chance the Rapper taking the first plunge.

A vacant, decrepit bowling alley on the Elgin's southeast side that was once proposed for use as a church is one step closer to meeting the wrecking ball.