Weekly news updates from the Lake County News-Sun delivered every Wednesday afternoon.
 Tuesday, Apr 3 Deerfield trustees unanimously voted to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in the north suburban village. |
| While Lake County has seen progress as a result of the civil rights movement, local black leaders say there's still plenty of room for improvement. |
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| A person authorities said was shot by a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development agent Thursday has been identified as a Waukegan teenager. |
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| A federal Housing and Urban Development agent fatally shot a man armed with a handgun in Zion, authorities say. |
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| The coroner found she had died from the drug toxicity of a combination of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine, according to reports. |
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| Mundelein's fire department in 2017 paid more than $800,000 in overtime wages, an increase of more than 126 percent since 2014. |
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