Several schools were placed on a soft lockdown for hours Tuesday afternoon as police responded to a barricade situation in Waukegan, the Lake County Sheriff’s office said.   Waukegan High School’s Washington Campus, Abbott Middle School, Juarez Middle School and Career Academy AOEC were all on a soft lockdown amid the police response. The sheriff’s office closed Washington Street...

Sky 5 video shows a barricade situation that put numerous Waukegan schools on a soft lockdown Tuesday.

Two storefronts in downtown Waukegan have been battling over a secondhand smoke conflict for years. Julie Contreras operates a community center and church in a building that LULAC has owned since 1974 on Genesee Street. A few years ago, ‘A Cuban Experience’ moved in next door, and according to Contreras, they promised to install the proper ventilation for their smoking…

A community activist alleges that city and county officials are not doing enough to protect her from the secondhand smoke that has migrated into her building. NBC 5’s Hilda Gutierrez investigates.

A 52-year-old man was critically injured in a crash Monday in north suburban Waukegan Township. Officers were called to a single-vehicle crash about 12:50 p.m. at Green Bay Road and Keith Avenue, the Lake County sheriff’s office said. Investigators determined a 2006 Ford Econoline was northbound on Green Bay when the driver crossed into southbound traffic, struck a curb, a…

The Company said new technology will capture 99.9% of all ethylene oxide.

The family of a 45-year-old woman who was killed by a hit-and-run driver last week while she was walking on a road in north suburban Waukegan, is looking for answers.

The family of a 45-year-old woman who was killed by a hit-and-run driver last week while she was walking on a road in north suburban Waukegan, is looking for answers. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

The mother of a woman killed in a Zion hit-and-run pleads for answers in her daughter’s death.

A 45-year-old woman of Zion was killed by a hit-and-run driver Wednesday while she was walking on a road in north suburban Waukegan, police say. About 5:40 p.m., officers responded to the intersection of Sheridan Road and Greenwood Avenue for calls of a person lying in the street and found Jenny Gaston badly injured, Waukegan police said in a statement….

A northern Illinois man has been convicted a second time in the 2011 beating death of a 3-year-old boy.

Dwayne Springs is one of dozens of Waukegan High School parents who are angrily questioning whether there is more violence on the school’s Brookside campus than parents have been made aware of. NBC 5’s Natalie Martinez has the story.

The Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office charged Juan C. Aguiar, 37, of Waukegan with two counts of aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol, aggravated driving under the influence of drugs (cocaine) and aggravated driving under the combined influence of alcohol and drugs. On May 12, 2019, around 2:30 a.m., Lake County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to the area of…

An Illinois healthcare manufacturing company has temporarily closed because it couldn’t meet new state standards for ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical.

An Illinois healthcare manufacturing company has temporarily closed because it couldn’t meet new state standards for ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical. NBC 5’s Christian Farr reports.

A fugitive wanted on weapons and narcotics charges in New York was arrested Thursday in north suburban Waukegan. Officers with the Lake County sheriff’s office and the U.S. Marshals Service arrested 21-year-old Eduardo Gutierrez at a home in the 500 block of Oak Street in Waukegan, according to a statement from the sheriff’s office. Gutierrez, who lives in New...

The family of a beloved north suburban teacher who was killed last year, speaks out Tuesday evening, a week after the alleged killer, once a family friend, was charged with murder.

The family of a beloved north suburban teacher who was killed last year, speaks out Tuesday evening, a week after the alleged killer, once a family friend, was charged with murder. NBC 5’s Chris Hush reports.

A Waukegan man has been charged with murder nearly four months after police say he killed the mother of a childhood best friend inside her home, according to police.

A man allegedly strangled a 74-year-old retired teacher while burglarizing her home last year in Waukegan, prosecutors say. Chad B. Jones, 41, is charged with first-degree murder and burglary in the September 2019 death of Marlyn Cook, the Lake County state’s attorney’s office and Waukegan police said in a statement. Prosectors say Jones broke into Cook’s house in the 2700…