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.

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois healthcare manufacturing company has temporarily closed because it couldn’t meet new state standards for ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing chemical. Medline Industries in Waukegan is in the process of completing $10 million in upgrades designed to bring the plant into compliance with the state law, the Lake County News-Sun reported. The facility closed about a month ago....

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. NBC 5’s Chris Hush reports.

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.

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…

An elderly women was woken up by an unknown suspect who broke into her home and robbed her Sunday in north suburban Waukegan, police said. The incident happened in the afternoon hours in the 1300 block of Leith Avenue, however police weren’t called until later that evening. The victim told police an unknown suspect entered her home, demanded items of…

Three people were killed in a vehicle crash Saturday in north suburban Beach Park. A Waukegan man, 24, was northbound about 4:45 a.m. on Green Bay Road when his Nissan Altima veered into the southbound lanes near Blanchard Road and slammed into a Honda Civic, the Lake County sheriff’s office said. The man and his passenger, a 23-year-old Waukegan woman,…

A Galesburg man was sentenced to nine years in prison for selling guns to undercover sheriff’s detectives in north suburban Lake County. Damond Martin, 28, pleaded guilty Oct. 31 to felony charges of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and unlawful delivery of a firearm, the Lake County state’s attorney’s office said. He was sentenced by a...

A Waukegan man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy, and transmitting HIV to the teen, police said in a news release issued Friday.

A police officer in north suburban Waukegan reportedly shot a fleeing driver on Monday evening after responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle, police said.

Multiple lawsuits claim two Lake County factories caused cancer in some residents by emitting a chemical into the air. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

Multiple people have filed suit against two Lake County factories, alleging the plants caused their health problems by releasing a cancer-causing chemical into the air.

A man has been arrested and charged after a crash that killed his passenger Thursday in north suburban Waukegan.

A man is dead after Waukegan police say he ingested drugs while fleeing officers on foot.

Fire officials say a hot spot continues to smolder at the site of a northern Illinois silicone factory explosion that killed four workers earlier this month.

Not long after a massive blast was picked up by security cameras earlier this month calls began to flood into the Waukegan 911 center. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski has the latest details revealed Tuesday.

Suburban police recovered a body from Lake Michigan early Thursday morning, according to authorities.

A woman was found strangled Saturday morning at a motel in north suburban Waukegan.