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Senior Yossi Jamieson stands before a display created by artist Jacqueline von Edelberg and Highland Park High School students using water bottles and other local plastic waste to highlight the increasing volume of plastic in the ocean and its harms.

Focus on the Arts returns to Highland Park High after pandemic hiatus; ‘To hear the kids cheering, tears just came to my face’

April 25, 2023 at 1:48 p.m.

After an extended hiatus and a planning period made hectic by security concerns and logistical changes, the familiar sounds of the renowned Focus on the Arts festival filled the halls...

Noisy Highland Park rumble strips prompt official complaint against IDOT; ‘They’re consummate bureaucrats accountable to nobody’

April 24, 2023 at 7:23 p.m.

Weary Highland Park residents living near U.S. Route 41 say they have been trying for years to get the Illinois Department of Transportation to make changes to decrease noise produced...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks with Lake County students during the Mikva Challenge on April 21, 2023, at Waukegan High School.

Pritzker ‘very impressed’ after seeing students’ Mikva Challenge civics projects at Waukegan High

April 23, 2023 at 1:23 p.m.

Students from Waukegan, North Chicago, Stevenson, Libertyville and Mundelein high schools got to showcase what they have learned about government and civics this school year in front of hundreds of...

Two Barrington Police officers accompany high school students out of the building as they evacuate Barrington High School following a second bomb threat at the school on Monday, April 17, 2023, in Barrington. Barrington 220 School District sent out alerts saying, "Out of an abundance of caution, BHS is evacuating the building after receiving a second bomb threat… Students who walk or drive to school have been dismissed for the day..BHS students who rely on district transportation should make their way to the normal bus loading area and will begin to board buses to be transported home. Students who are picked up by parents should make their own way to the west lot for normal parent pick-up." (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

Barrington police tried to avoid ‘hysteria … and panic’ after bogus bomb threat called in to high school

April 20, 2023 at 1:15 p.m.

Police in Barrington are still investigating after multiple "computerized bomb threats" made to Barrington High School on Monday at first led to no lockdown but then prompted an evacuation of...

Barrington police tried to avoid ‘hysteria … and panic’ after bogus bomb threat called in to Barrington High School, still investigating as videos emerge online

April 20, 2023 at 12:39 p.m.

Police in Barrington are still investigating after multiple "computerized bomb threats" made to Barrington High School on Monday at first led to no lockdown but then prompted an evacuation of...

Waukegan Police Chief Edgar Navarro thanks the City Council and the crowd at Monday's meeting after taking his oath of office.

Waukegan’s new police chief sworn in after 24 years in the department; ‘It’s very obvious he was the right choice’

April 18, 2023 at 10:16 p.m.

Edgar Navarro has worked all over the Waukegan police department in his 24 years, from the criminal investigations division, to the patrol and night patrol divisions, to the neighborhood enforcement...

One of two medical examination rooms onboard the mobile asthma van that will serve children around Lake County.

Van to deliver asthma and allergy treatment to Lake County children; ‘There are significant barriers to accessing health care … placed on some people’

April 18, 2023 at 2:01 p.m.

Nearly 20 years after losing their son Christopher to an exercise-induced asthma attack while he was on a jog, Helen and Mike Redding's vision to bring free, high-quality asthma treatment...

Bomb threat at Barrington High School a hoax, the latest bogus threat to a school as swatting trend stretches into Lake County

April 18, 2023 at 12:11 a.m.

Barrington High School was evacuated Monday afternoon after receiving a "computerized bomb threat," then additional bomb threats shortly thereafter, with police summing up the incident as the latest school to...

Mundelein High School, 1350 W. Hawley Steet, Mundelein
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Mundelein High baseball team resumes season as investigation continues, students found in violation

April 13, 2023 at 10:45 p.m.

Mundelein High School's varsity baseball team was back in action on Thursday after four games were postponed as District 120 administrators continue to review, "alleged violations of the student code...

About 40 people attended a special District 113 board meeting Tuesday night to discuss school security following an intense lockdown prompted by a student who allegedly brought a gun to Highland Park High School.

Bulletproof backpacks and a teacher armed with a sledgehammer; Highland Park students, parents demand action in wake of gun on campus

April 17, 2023 at 5:43 p.m.

Some parents and students in the Highland Park area are demanding the installation of metal detectors, and want Township High School District 113 to hire armed security as mass shootings...

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