Jeffrey Bils

The top deputy in the Lake County prosecutor's office is taking a temporary position as senior counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. The new assignment for Jeffrey...

A 72-year-old Lake Forest man is facing felony charges after allegedly threatening to kill three Lake County judges, authorities said Friday. Herbert Gefvert, of 495 S. Green Bay Rd., spent...

With political pressure mounting to hold schools more accountable for how well students do, the state on Thursday followed Chicago's lead and took the first step toward closing Illinois' worst...

A 21-year-old Waukegan woman and her live-in male companion were each ordered held on $1 million bond Wednesday after being charged with abusing the woman's 4-year-old daughter, allegedly because she...

Last spring, Chicago Public Schools officials were heartened by some long-awaited good news: Average reading scores for the system's students on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills were rising. It...

Lake County construction crews have re-opened Yorkhouse Road between Lewis Avenue and Green Bay Road two weeks ahead of schedule. The $965,000 rehabilitation project began this past spring. The 1.2-mile...

A complaint against Edgewood Middle School that physical education teachers left a pupil unattended while he had an asthma attack has been ruled to be unfounded. Russell and Vicki Rose...

Two students from Warren Township High School in Gurnee won first place in an annual accounting contest sponsored by Abbott Laboratories, the College of Lake County, and area high schools....

The Northern Illinois Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse is seeking teenagers to participate as jurors and attorneys in its teen court program in the Wauconda Township area. The program,...

The Chicago Animal Rights Coalition is seeking a federal injunction against the Lake County sheriff's office to prevent officers from interfering with the group's planned protest of the Wauconda Rodeo...