The Waukegan City Council formally has approved renaming a stretch of 22nd Street ”Martin Luther King Drive” in honor of the slain civil rights leader. Waukegan`s action, taken Monday, means ...

Street racing blamed for deadly crash in Waukegan 00:27 WAUKEGAN, Ill. (CBS) -- Police say street racing is to blame for a deadly hit-and-run in Waukegan over the weekend.

The history is one of the reasons Duryl Smith, 35, decided to pursue an honorary street sign for his grandmother, Edith Smith, after her death in September at the age of 87.

A Waukegan shooting injured 2, 1 critically, outside The Memorial Chapel Funeral Home & Cremation Center on Washington Street, police said.

Anyone with information is asked to call Waukegan's police tip line at 847-360-9001. More from CBS News Man, 37, seriously hurt after being shot while driving on South Side ...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (WLS) -- Firefighters in Waukegan continue to work to put out a fire at a recycling plant that broke out on Friday evening. They responded to a report of smoke and fire at 345 ...

The shooting happened about 11:30 p.m. in the 1000 block of Yeoman Street, Waukegan police said in a statement.

This week, students of Waukegan’s Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep officially moved into their new—and unorthodox—campus inside a converted Kmart store. Designed by Chicago-based Juan ...

Waukegan police said officers were called that night to an apartment complex on the 1600 block of Sunset Road for reports of a man attacking a woman with a weapon in the street.

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) - A woman at the forefront of a 1960s effort to desegregate Waukegan public schools will be memorialized Saturday with an honorary street sign. Duryl Smith tells the (Lake ...

The Waukegan Police Department says it is looking for 21-year-old Seamus Gray was last seen at the Ibiza Bar on Genesee Street in Waukegan, a city less than an hour outside of Chicago.

(06-08) 12:37 PDT San Francisco-- Trolleys on Market Street are delayed after an inbound F-Line trolley rolled over a pedestrian near the intersection of Seventh and Market streets, authorities ...