Grayslake Patch

11/21/2025

Christkindlmarket returns to the suburbs, starting today! Full story at the link in the comments.

11/21/2025

An 83-year-old man remains jailed, accused of drinking a pint of vodka before crashing into a KFC and badly injured a woman. Full story at the link in the comments.

11/21/2025

There have been ten deaths on the grounds of Great Lakes Naval Station or in housing related to the base in the past year, according to information provided to Patch by the Lake County Coroner's Office.

The number of deaths is above normal, according to the Lake County Coroner's Office officials.

11/21/2025

"Above normal deaths" at Illinois Naval base: Officials are reporting 10 deaths so far this year at the Great Lakes Naval Station. Full story at the link in the comments. (📷: AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

11/21/2025

"I have ruined all that I hold dear in this world, and I can't even begin to describe how much I can't stop crying for what I did to everyone": An Illinois school superintendent resigned last week, months after an investigation into allegations he used a school district credit card to pay for p**n, Vi**ra and $26,000 from Amazon. Full story at the link in the comments.

11/20/2025

The warmest Thanksgiving on record in the Chicago area was 69 degrees, while the coldest was -1 degree. But how will Thanksgiving 2025 turn out? Full story at the link in the comments.

11/20/2025

CHARGES DROPPED: “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes,” a border patrol agent reportedly bragged in a text after shooting a woman accused of "boxing in" federal agents. Now, federal prosecutors have moved to drop the charges against the woman. Full story at link in the comments. (📷: AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

11/20/2025

Here is a roundup of top stories from recent days in the northern Chicago suburbs.

11/20/2025

Check your tickets! Three big Illinois lottery prizes will expire soon. Full story at the link in the comments.

11/20/2025

"I've seen a lot of things in the 15 years previous to this, but nothing as heinous or as evil as what this was," he said. "It is hard to explain the anger that goes through somebody who has compassion for people."

Retired paramedic Kevin Collinge was speaking publicly for the first time on Tuesday as part of an upcoming documentary on the murders.

11/20/2025

“I think we have to look for ways of treating people humanely, treating people with the dignity that they have,” said the Chicago-born Leo. “If people are in the United States illegally, there are ways to treat that. There are courts, there’s a system of justice.”

"I think we have to look for ways of treating people humanely, treating people with the dignity," the Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV said.

11/20/2025

WOMAN SET ON FIRE: A man is facing federal terrorism charges after officials say he doused a woman on a train in gasoline and ignited it. "This horrific attack was not just a barbaric assault on an innocent woman riding a train, but an act of terrorism," the U.S. attorney said. Full story at the link in the comments. (📷: Chicago Transit Authority/U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois via AP)