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One day last month, 80 percent of the 200 faculty and staff members at Antioch High School got up and left for the day. They weren`t walking out on strike, but their actions were planned. They went looking at eight other north and northwest suburban high schools, all known for educational achievement, so they could […]

Disappointed that Antioch had failed to derail Commonwealth Edison Co.`s plans to build high-voltage power lines, residents of the unincorporated areas surrounding East and West Loon Lakes are pinning their hopes on Lake Villa to stop the utility`s plans. Residents there can see the foundation of a substation where construction began this month just east

Officials in Grayslake Elementary School District 46 are recommending cuts, user fees and more than $4 million in short- and long-term borrowing to dig their way out of a budget deficit. “It`s not a very encouraging position we`re in this year,“ Supt. David Duffy said in presenting a “doom and gloom“ view of the future

Antioch voters said no to building a new high school in November, so school trustees don`t plan to ask them again in March. “We need more time for fact-finding“ instead of another referendum right away, member Alice Gantar said at a meeting of the High School District 117 board recently. Read full article at the

Lake Villa village trustees will soon begin discussing whether to increase impact fees that home builders are required to pay to school districts because of the additional students the developments bring. “Basically, the idea is to get developers to pay for what it costs to provide new facilities,“ said Donald Skidmore, superintendent of the Antioch

A taxpayers group was so angry with the Gurnee Park District this fall that it didn`t want to just vote board members out of office. It proposed voting the entire government out of existence. That group`s unusual referendum proposition received only 35 percent of the vote in the Nov. 5 election. But despite the failure

Squabbling over the $32 million bond referendum on next week`s ballot to provide funds for a new high school in Antioch has escalated into name-calling and finger-pointing. The group BEST, Better Education, Stable Taxes, which is opposed to the new school, is accusing school officials of concealing information and passing out “useless figures.“ Read full

In one corner stands mighty Commonwealth Edison with its army of 17,558 employees, and in the other stands tiny Lake Villa with its 2,800 residents. In between stand a proposed series of 75-foot-tall towers and a 138,000-volt power line that the utility is intent on putting through town. Read full article at the Chicago Tribune

More than 150 people crowded into a recent meeting at Antioch Community High School to listen to a group called BEST explain its opposition to building a new $32 million school. But most of them weren`t buying what BEST was selling. Most of the audience at last week`s session disputed the contentions by BEST (Better

The Lindenhurst Village Board, embroiled in a controversy over burning leaves and the related health risks, is taking the middle road. The board opted Monday night to continue to allow leaf burning, but with restrictions. The exact wording of the ordinance to restrict burning will be discussed Monday and voted into law Sept. 23, said

School officials in the Antioch area want more money for bricks. An organization of local residents wants more money for brains. Each side will be looking for a mandate from voters in a referendum this November on whether to issue $32 million in bonds to build a new high school. On one side is the

Lindenhurst residents can burn their leaves now, but that privilege may soon go up in smoke if one village trustee has his way. “I`m really strongly opposed to continued burning in the village,“ said Thomas Berger, who has a doctorate in biology and is manager of a microbiology research group for Abbott Laboratories. “It is