

Sports
Forty-seven Lake Forest College lacrosse players were named NACC Scholar-Athletes for 2025-26, with seniors Cecilia Adams and Ryan Dousevicz earning conference academic honors for the fourth consecutive year across two conferences.

Sports
Forty-seven Lake Forest College lacrosse players were named NACC Scholar-Athletes for 2025-26, with seniors Cecilia Adams and Ryan Dousevicz earning conference academic honors for the fourth consecutive year across two conferences.

Sports
Forty-seven Lake Forest College lacrosse players were named NACC Scholar-Athletes for 2025-26, with seniors Cecilia Adams and Ryan Dousevicz earning conference academic honors for the fourth consecutive year across two conferences.

Sports
State Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Lake Barrington) introduced legislation on June 16 offering $2.5 billion in private investment and $1.2 billion in state infrastructure to keep the Bears at Arlington Park, as the team advances stadium plans in Hammond, Indiana — 40 miles from its Halas Hall headquarters in Lake Forest.

Local Government
The first West Nile virus-positive mosquito pool of 2026 was reported in Lake County on Friday, June 26, just before the July 4 holiday weekend, as the CDC warns the national season is tracking at its worst pace since 2004.
Business
The Chicago Bears' 2026 Small Business All-Pros program is accepting applications through Wednesday, July 29, offering four Chicagoland businesses a free four-week marketing partnership during the NFL season, with the team's Halas Hall headquarters sitting in Lake Forest.

Sports
Forty-seven Lake Forest College lacrosse players were named NACC Scholar-Athletes for 2025-26, with seniors Cecilia Adams and Ryan Dousevicz earning conference academic honors for the fourth consecutive year across two conferences.

Community
Growing Native Habitat Lake Bluff is distributing 250 free oak seedlings to celebrate America's semiquincentennial, while its Witness Tree Quest challenges residents to find the village's oldest trees by September 30.

Education
Deer Path Middle School's Green Team presented their "Operation Light Swap" LED retrofit project to the District 67 Board of Education at the June meeting, proposing to replace nine always-on fluorescent emergency lights using a $1,000 grant as a proof of concept for broader campus upgrades.
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