Dan Moran

Moran: $5.1 million Lakewood Forest Preserve master plan moving from drawing board to reality

January 16, 2020 at 4:41 p.m.

A new year, a new look for the Lake County Forest Preserves, which jumped on social media this week to pound the drums for "a refreshed brand logo" that, on...

The Catlow Theatre in Barrington, one of the last single-screen movie houses in Lake County, was open for business the week of Jan. 12 after being closed in early January.

Moran: Barrington’s Catlow Theatre bounces back to life just in time for Oscar season

January 14, 2020 at 8:10 p.m.

The Academy Award nominations came out on Monday, which means it is once again that time of year when a majority of us realize we have not seen most if...

A pedestrian maneuvers around warning barriers along the lakefront near North Avenue Beach in Chicago on Friday morning, Jan. 10. The National Weather Service is forecasting waves of up to 23 feet along the entire Illinois end of the Lake Michigan shore on Saturday.

Moran: Unwinter of 2019-20 coming to a crashing halt with forecast for ‘a potent winter storm’

January 10, 2020 at 10:38 p.m.

Well, it was a nice unwinter while it lasted: Less than 2 dusty inches of snow in December, and barely a trace through the first 10 days of January; five...

Moran: As legal weed flies off the shelves, Lake County pumps the brakes on sales in unincorporated areas

January 7, 2020 at 4:16 p.m.

The word out of Mundelein on New Year's Day from, shall we say, a group of persons known to this author was that the line for newly legal marijuana was...

The barely tamed T-intersection of Winchester Road and Route 83 in Mundelein is lined up for a traffic signal and new lane configurations that will be partially funded by the Illinois Department of Transportation.

Moran: IDOT rolling out Lake County’s Rebuild Illinois transportation improvements for 2020

January 3, 2020 at 10:35 p.m.

For those of us with license plates up for renewal on Jan. 31, our first big-buck investment in Rebuild Illinois is coming due. True, we've been contributing to the $45...

The U.S. government set up a temporary Y2K command center, known as the Year 2000 Information Coordination Center (ICC), in the months preceding New Year's Day of 2000 to prepare for the Millennium Bug issue.

Moran: Remembering the all-bark, no-bite Y2K scare 20 years later

December 31, 2019 at 7:45 p.m.

Twenty years ago, on New Year's morning of 2000, I started the day at the inaugural Polar Bear Plunge, which was touted as "the first of what organizers hope will...

Professional wrestler King Kong Bundy, whose real name was Christopher Pallies, died on March 4. The 6-foot-4, 458-pound wrestler made his World Wrestling Federation debut in 1981.

Moran: 2019 celebrity deaths that might have flown under your radar

December 27, 2019 at 9:40 p.m.

The news broke on Dec. 8 that Caroll Spinney had died. "Caroll who?" was the question. "Big Bird" was the answer. "And Oscar the Grouch." In a culture more and...

Moran: A (revised) list of the greatest Christmas songs that haven’t worn out their welcome

December 25, 2019 at 1:42 p.m.

Merry Christmas, Lake County. If you're reading this, it means you've survived not only apocalyptic traffic around Gurnee Mills and Hawthorn Mall on Super Saturday, but also hearing yet another...

Moran: Big changes taking shape for 2022 at Hunt Club Road and Washington Street

December 13, 2019 at 10:37 p.m.

Here's a tip that comes way too late: If you needed to get any Christmas or Hanukkah shopping done, Gurnee Mills was all but empty after rush hour on Thursday...

The Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. [Photo/Ellen Creager/Detroit Free Press/TNS]

Moran: Lake County to observe Martin Luther King Day as more than just an optional day off

December 10, 2019 at 8:52 p.m.

When it comes to decades that drive our pop-culture nostalgia and therefore our consumer focus, the alternative '90s are starting to seep energy from the totally happenin' '80s, though we...

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