Lake and McHenry County Scanner
Providing breaking news as it happens in Lake & McHenry Counties in Illinois
A 4-year-old girl was rescued from Lake Michigan by bystanders after she was separated from her family in the water on Thursday near Winthrop Harbor. The Winthrop Harbor Fire Department was called at 5:27 p.m. for a report of a…
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The U.S. Coast Guard rescued two people who were in the water after their boat sank during a fishing trip near the Waukegan Harbor on Friday. Two men, 29-years-old and 31-years-old, were about one mile east of the Waukegan Harbor…
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Two Good Samaritans helped save four people including a woman and her three kids from a car that drove into a retention pond during a storm Wednesday. First responders were called to the parking lot of Tacos El Norte near…
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(PATCH.COM) — A 19-year-old boy who was pulled from a lake in Grayslake on Wednesday has been identified as Yhalayea Cornelius Kumahn of Aurora, Colorado. Lake County Coroner Howard Cooper has ruled the preliminary cause of death for Kumahn is…
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A 19-year-old teen has died after being rescued from the water in Lake Leopold in the Prairie Crossing subdivision in Grayslake Wednesday evening. An autopsy Thursday morning confirmed the cause of death as drowning. Lake County Coroner Howard Cooper said…
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(PATCH.COM) — A 19-year-old man is in critical condition after he started having difficulty swimming and went underwater in Lake Leopold in the Prairie Crossing subdivision in Grayslake Wednesday evening. Authorities were first called to the scene near the intersection…
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(SUN-TIMES) — Two men were rescued from the waters of a northwest suburban lake after the canoe they were in capsized, leaving them clinging to the overturned craft without life preservers. The Countryside Fire Protection District received a 911 call…
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