A lockdown Monday morning at Woodland Middle School in Gurnee was the result of a false alarm triggered by the installation of a new security system, police said.
The alarm was set off at about 11:20 .
Tiffany Drake, principal at Woodland Middle School in Gurnee, has been selected Lake Region Middle School principal of the year and is now a nominee for statewide recognition.
The selection by the Ill.
In this week s Good News Sunday column, we recap stories about a restaurant serving free Thanksgiving meals, an award-winning season for a marching band, and a man who s been teaching social studies for 53 years and has no plans to retire.
Silas Nichols died in 1945, but a special service Saturday will conclude a long mission to find and honor him as the last soldier in Lake County to serve in the Union Army.
A state appeals court reversed the conviction of a Park City woman who last year was found guilty on two felony charges after officials said she failed to give her son the medical care he required after a heart transplant.