Police departments around Lake County, including the sheriff’s office and the Waukegan police, say they will be stepping up patrols in the coming weeks.
A Waukegan man was arrested during a burglary of a single family home and is suspected to have been involved in seven other similar incidents, police said.
Brandon Ewing, president of the District 60 Board of Education, believes that because of the bill Democrat Mayfield, a former Waukegan Unit School District board member before she was appointed to the legislature, filed in Springfield. House Bill 548 would take local control from District 60 taxpayers and voters, placing it in the hands of appointed state officials.