Lake and McHenry County Scanner · Lake Zurich, IL
Two students were taken into custody after a school employee overheard them talking about a gun, prompting a lockdown that kept students in their classrooms for over two hours at Lake Zurich High School Friday afternoon. The Lake Zurich Police Department responded around 12:23 p.m. Friday to Lake Zurich High School, 300 Church Street in Lake Zurich, for a report of a possible student with a firearm. Officers arrived and were told the school had been placed on lockdown, Lake Zurich Deputy Police Chief Colin Gaffney said. Gaffney said officers went into the school and quickly found and detained the two juveniles involved. Officers learned through their investigation that a school employee had overheard two students speaking about a firearm and started the school’s lockdown protocol, Gaffney said. Lake Zurich Community Unit School District 95 Superintendent Dr. Kelley Gallt said in an email to Lake Zurich High School families just before 1 p.m.
Lake and McHenry County Scanner · Mundelein, IL
Nearby: Mundelein, ILPolice officers in riot gear lined up outside the Mundelein Village Hall as protesters left a board meeting where the family of a woman fatally shot by a police sergeant again demanded he be fired. The Village of Mundelein held its regular board meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at the village hall two weeks after protesters shut down the board’s October 26 meeting and 11 days after they forced a recess at a rescheduled meeting held under heavy police security on October 29. The family of Mary Alice Love, 37, of Mundelein, and their supporters are demanding the firing of Mundelein Police Sgt. Christopher Brigano, who fatally shot Love at her family’s home on May 11. Video published by the Lake County chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) shows at least 10 police officers wearing helmets, several with face shields, standing in a line outside the village hall in the dark as protesters carrying signs walk past them.
Lake and McHenry County Scanner · Cary, IL
Nearby: Cary, ILA teenage girl was airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries after being hit by a vehicle and found lying in the road near a crosswalk in Cary Tuesday afternoon, fire officials said. The Cary Fire Protection District and Cary Police Department responded just before 2:30 p.m. Tuesday to the intersection of Cary-Algonquin Road and Norman Drive in Cary for a report of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle. Dispatchers relayed to responding crews that one person was on the ground and not moving, according to fire department radio traffic. Paramedics arrived within moments and found a teenage girl lying in the roadway near the crosswalk next to the intersection, Cary Fire Protection District Public Information Officer Alex Vucha said. The intersection, which has a marked pedestrian crosswalk with crossing signs, is just down the road from the fire district’s Station 1 at 400 Cary-Algonquin Road.
Lake and McHenry County Scanner · Algonquin, IL
Nearby: Algonquin, ILA pedestrian suffered a head injury after being struck by a vehicle turning at an intersection in Algonquin and a medical helicopter was requested but unavailable, authorities said. The Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District and Algonquin Police Department responded around 9:18 a.m. on October 2 to the area of Algonquin Road and Sandbloom Road in Algonquin for a report of a vehicle crash. Emergency crews arrived and found a pedestrian on the ground who was conscious and breathing with a head injury, according to fire department radio traffic. Algonquin Police Department Sgt. Johnny Beltran said a vehicle was in the southbound lanes of Countryside Drive, which becomes Sandbloom Road south of the intersection, waiting to turn left onto eastbound Route 62, also known as Algonquin Road. Witnesses reported the vehicle had a green turn arrow and the pedestrian signal “displayed do not cross,” Beltran said.
Lake and McHenry County Scanner · Green Oaks, IL
Nearby: Green Oaks, ILThe coroner has released the identity of a 29-year-old Waukegan man who died after his SUV drifted onto the center median and struck a concrete barrier in Green Oaks early Sunday morning. Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek identified the driver on Monday as Fernando Alvarado-Reyes, 29, of Waukegan. An autopsy was completed and preliminary results indicate Alvarado-Reyes died from blunt force injuries as a result of the crash, Banek said. The Libertyville Fire Department and Lake County Sheriff’s Office responded around 4:10 a.m. Sunday to the area of Route 137, also known as Buckley Road, just east of Interstate 94 in Green Oaks for a report of a single-vehicle crash with injuries. Fire department radio traffic indicated the crash was in the westbound lanes of Buckley Road at the ramp to northbound Interstate 94.
Lake and McHenry County Scanner · Round Lake, IL
Nearby: Round Lake, ILThe legal team for a Round Lake mother held by ICE in a Kentucky jail for more than 15 months over two old retail theft cases said in an update Tuesday that she was granted a $7,500 bond and is awaiting release. Beata Siemionkowicz, 57, of Round Lake, has been held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for more than 15 months, mostly at the Campbell County Detention Center in Newport, Kentucky. Siemionkowicz was granted bond at a hearing before an immigration judge Friday and the bond was set at $7,500, ACLU of Illinois Director of Communications and Public Policy Ed Yohnka said Tuesday. “We continue to await her release,” Yohnka told Lake and McHenry County Scanner. Siemionkowicz was still listed at the Campbell County Detention Center Tuesday morning, according to ICE’s online detainee locator. It was not immediately known when she would be released.
Lake and McHenry County Scanner · Deerfield, IL
Nearby: Deerfield, ILA 17-year-old who died in a crash with a Chicago Tribune truck in Deerfield Monday was a “beloved member of the Class of 2027” and an “exceptionally talented” theater student at Evanston Township High School, school officials said. The incident happened around 12:19 a.m. Monday in the 1100 block of Waukegan Road in Deerfield, prompting the response of the Deerfield Police Department and Deerfield-Bannockburn Fire Protection District following calls of a crash involving two vehicles. Officers arrived and found a passenger vehicle and a box truck had been involved in a crash and one of the drivers had died from their injuries at the scene, police said in a statement. Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek identified the victim as Charles Halliday, 17, of Evanston. Lake County Chief Deputy Coroner Steve Newton said an Audi Q5 was traveling southbound on Waukegan Road near Journal Place when it swerved into the northbound lane.
Lake and McHenry County Scanner · Deerfield, IL
Nearby: Deerfield, ILThe coroner has released the identity of a 17-year-old boy who died after the SUV he was driving swerved into oncoming traffic and collided with a Chicago Tribune box truck in Deerfield Monday morning. Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek identified the driver on Monday as Charles Halliday, 17, of Evanston. An autopsy was completed Monday and preliminary results indicate Halliday died from blunt force injuries as a result of the crash, Banek said. The Deerfield Police Department and Deerfield-Bannockburn Fire Protection District responded around 12:19 a.m. Monday to the 1100 block of Waukegan Road in Deerfield for a report of a crash involving two vehicles. Officers arrived and found a passenger vehicle and a box truck had been involved in a crash and one of the drivers had died from their injuries at the scene, police said in a statement.
Lake and McHenry County Scanner · McHenry, IL
Nearby: McHenry, ILA Crystal Lake man already serving a federal prison sentence for an $8 million Ponzi scheme was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to stealing from a McHenry veterans group while he was its commander. Alan J. Hanke, 62, of Crystal Lake, pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of theft of property valued between $10,000 and $100,000, a Class 2 felony, as part of a negotiated plea agreement, court records show. McHenry County Judge Tiffany Davis sentenced Hanke to four years in the Illinois Department of Corrections, followed by one year of mandatory supervised release. Davis ordered the sentence to run concurrently with the federal prison sentence Hanke is serving for his role in an $8 million Ponzi scheme. Truth-in-sentencing guidelines require the sentence to be served at 50%, court documents show. Hanke was given credit for 268 days already spent in custody, which covers one day in September 2024 and every day since February 19.
Lake and McHenry County Scanner · McHenry, IL
Nearby: McHenry, ILAn insurer is suing to avoid paying for the crash that killed a U.S. Marine veteran on the Fox River near McHenry and records show the accused boater swore he could not pay his lawyers months after his family’s firm paid $454K for his pontoon. Richard M. Stevenson, 45, of Lisle, who is also known as Ricky Stevenson, is charged with first-degree murder in the July 25 death of Magdalena Jablonska, 48, of Des Plaines, along with four counts each of aggravated driving under the influence and operating a watercraft under the influence, which are Class 2 felonies. Stevenson is also the defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit filed in August by Michelle Macias, the special administrator of the estate of her sister, Jablonska, and Jablonska’s fiancé, Alan Telmini, who was injured in the crash. McHenry County Judge Joel D.
Lake and McHenry County Scanner · McHenry, IL
Nearby: McHenry, ILThe Chicago deep dish chain Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria is expanding to McHenry with a carryout, delivery and catering location set to open next spring that city officials called “a great addition to our community.” Lou Malnati’s will occupy a 1,630-square-foot space at 1777 North Richmond Road in the McHenry Grounds shopping center, the company said in a statement. The McHenry store will be the company’s 71st location and will offer carryout, delivery and catering, giving McHenry-area residents a closer way to get the chain’s signature deep dish pizza and other menu favorites, the company said. “As we continue to grow throughout the Chicagoland area, we’re focused on bringing Lou Malnati’s to more communities where we have unmet customer demand,” Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria CEO Julie Younglove-Webb said.
Lake and McHenry County Scanner · Lakewood, IL
Nearby: Lakewood, ILLakewood’s village manager has resigned after less than six months on the job and the village president says trustees who second-guess staff are making it hard to keep good people, drawing pushback from two trustees. Lakewood Village President David Stavropoulos said in a letter to residents dated November 10 and released Wednesday that Village Manager Justyn Miller gave formal notice of his resignation on November 4. Miller’s last day with the village will be January 4, Stavropoulos said. The Lakewood Village Board appointed Miller as village manager on May 20, effective May 29, according to the board’s minutes. Miller replaced former Village Manager Jean Heckman, who retired earlier this year. Stavropoulos said Miller “stepped into an extremely difficult environment” and worked through complicated audit and accounting issues, the draft budget for the 2027 fiscal year, the property tax levy, staffing matters and day-to-day operations.