It’s A Belizean Style Summer BBQ!

UBNI — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:21:22 +0000

City Sticker Cost Breakdown 2012-2013

UBNI — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:13:04 +0000

This is a breakdown of the Waukegan City Sticker costs for 2012 – 2013

Vehicle Sticker Renew betweenFeb 15 to March 31 Renew betweenApril 1 to April 30 Renew afterMay 1 Passenger cars $40 $45 $90 Motorcycles & Motor Tricycles $25 $30 $60 Persons 65 and older, Physical Disability (State Placard) or active Military [...]

Be My Valentine Dance with Cultural Roots Band!

UBNI — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:22:19 +0000

Be My Valentine Dance with the Culture Roots Band, Saturday February 18th at 8:00 p.m Belam Hall, Waukegan, Illinois. Donation $18.00. Help us reach our 2012 Goals by attending our fundraisers. All proceeds go directly into our communities and back home. Thanks for your support. Click on links below for a sample of their music.

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Police warn of ruse burglaries

UBNI — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:28:31 +0000

Local police are warning residents to be on the lookout for potential home scam artists after several ruse burglaries have been reported in the area.

Police in Mundelein, Libertyville and Vernon Hills and other Lake County communities have all reported incidences in recent months of individuals posing as utility workers, contractors, landscapers and government employees [...]

Cook County jail policy may be illegal

UBNI — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:11:21 +0000

Cook County’s controversial illegal immigration policy, which critics say paved the way for a suspect in a deadly drunken driving crash to bond out of jail and disappear, may very well violate federal law, the nation’s immigration director said in a letter to County Board President Toni Preckwinkle.

“This ordinance undermines public safety in Cook [...]

With pen and pad, Deerfield teen offers view of world

UBNI — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:05:18 +0000

Deerfield’s Ilana Strauss is leaving her mark on the world by cartooning.

She not only created artwork for the Daily Illini, the student newspaper at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she attended class for two years, but also for the Daily News at Yale University, where she is now a junior.

Sketching
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Shoveling raises heart attack risk

UBNI — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:45:46 +0000

Snow shoveling does increase the risk of heart attack, a new study confirms.

Researchers at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, reviewed the records of 500 patients who went to Kingston General Hospital with heart problems over two winter seasons. Of those patients, 35 (7 percent) started experiencing heart symptoms while shoveling snow.

The researchers [...]

Bodies piling up at Cook County morgue

UBNI — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:24:45 +0000

To the disgust of some staff, bodies are piling up at the office of the Cook County Medical Examiner, stacked atop each other in blue plastic tarps against a wall of the storage cooler because of ongoing financial woes, the Sun-Times has learned.

All the storage trays are full, and many have a second body [...]

$4-a-month natural gas hike approved

UBNI — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:59:18 +0000

January 13, 2012 on NewsSun

The Illinois Citizens Utility Board says it will appeal the $68 million rate hike approved for People’s Gas and Waukegan-based North Shore Gas.

The Illinois Commerce Commission on Wednesday approved the rate hike — not much more than half of the natural gas provider’s original request for a [...]

Lake Villa Township Winter festival to host rib-eating contest

UBNI — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:50:14 +0000

The third Lake Villa Township rib cook-off Jan. 28 offers opportunities for cooks and rib-lovers with big appetites.

New this year to the annual winter festival at Caboose Park is a rib-eating contest.

The festival is noon to 4 pm, with cooking to start at 7 a.m. Admission to the event at the park at [...]