Mary McIntrye

Winthrop Harbor officials debated the pros and cons of regulating recreational marijuana sales in the village Tuesday during a public meeting.

‘Wisconsin’s going to come’: Winthrop Harbor notes border location in discussing recreational cannabis regulations

August 14, 2019 at 4:34 p.m.

Winthrop Harbor wants to market itself as a tourist destination, and officials think people will make the trip for pot. At Tuesday's Committee of the Whole meeting, elected officials, village...

Grayslake Community High School District 127 has had a concussion plan for about 10 years, even prior to the state of Illinois mandating such plans.

Grayslake High School District 127 revises concussion protocols to include non-athletes

June 21, 2019 at 7:06 p.m.

Concussions don't just happen to athletes. Non-athlete students can have head injuries too. Grayslake High School District 127 has updated its concussion protocol this year to include a plan to...

A section of Russell Avenue in Winthrop Harbor shows open areas where ash trees once provided a canopy of shade before being wiped out by the emerald ash borer.

After beetle wiped out 20% of parkway trees in Winthrop Harbor, federal grant will help restock the village

June 20, 2019 at 7:51 p.m.

Winthrop Harbor is serious about recovering from the effects of the emerald ash borer. The village is one of only five communities in the area to receive a $15,000 U.S....

Antioch Elementary School to be renamed after former principal who ‘poured her entire life into education’

May 24, 2019 at 5:51 a.m.

Mary Kay McNeill put children first. Though she will be officially honored as the person who broke through the glass ceiling to become Antioch School District 34's first female principal,...

Signs at Illinois Beach State Park in Zion direct users to a lakefront trail system that, for now at least, isn't much of a lakefront trail.

Winthrop Harbor hopes TIF district will promote connections to the ‘natural beauty of the lake’

May 24, 2019 at 5:50 a.m.

Active seniors, hungry kayakers, and ecotourists are three elements in Community Development Director Pat DiPersio's vision for a new Winthrop Harbor, reinvented as a walkable lakefront destination. The Village Board...

RVs, past drug charge and ‘fake’ news articles at issue in Zion mayoral race

May 24, 2019 at 5:47 a.m.

Governing a city with fewer than 25,000 residents and a budget shortfall of approximately $1.5 million doesn't sound like a fun part-time job. However, two candidates are passionately vying for...

The Antioch Corporate Center on Route 45 will have the name of its main access road changed from Gregory Drive to Handi-foil Way under an agreement with Handi-foil, which operates a plant on the west side of the property.

Antioch offers up to $15 million in tax incentives for new Handi-foil plant

May 24, 2019 at 5:46 a.m.

Handi-foil is expanding in Antioch. However, it is not yet clear how many new jobs will be added to fill the company's new 600,000-square-foot facility, expected to start operations this...

Grayslake officials refine tattoo definition

May 24, 2019 at 5:44 a.m.

A pigment-enhanced eyebrow is not a tattoo. That was the majority opinion of the Grayslake Village Board, which voted recently to differentiate micro-blading, a procedure using needles and pigment to...

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources designated five acres just north of North Point Marina in Winthrop Harbor for commercial use by the village.

Winthrop Harbor hopes lakefront hotel will make village a tourist destination

May 24, 2019 at 5:40 a.m.

Would a 150-room lakefront hotel make Winthrop Harbor a tourist destination? Village officials are hoping it will, and have started the process to try to attract one. “One step at...

The Pine Dunes Forest Preserve off Hunt Club Road near Wadsworth added 75 acres in 2015.

Wadsworth votes against creating more ‘forever undevelopable’ forest preserve land in village

May 24, 2019 at 5:39 a.m.

Wadsworth residents enjoy lots of open space, and more Lake County Forest Preserves acreage than any almost other community. However, the Wadsworth Village Board opposes forest preserve purchases of land...

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