by GLC Staff | Oct 2, 2026 | business, chicago, civil, crime, illinois, legal, politics, united states
(Photo: FBI) Chicago, IL — October 2, 2026 — More than $22 million in client funds. Nearly a decade of alleged financial misconduct. And a former chief executive who has now pleaded guilty to wire fraud. Michael Calomino, the former CEO of an Illinois-based railcar...
by GLC Staff | Sep 25, 2026 | business, civil, crime, Ford Heights, illinois, legal, politics, united states, violations
(Photo: Social Media) FORD HEIGHTS, Illinois — September 25, 2026 — Eleven current and former elected officials and municipal employees in the small south suburban community of Ford Heights are facing a combined 79 felony counts in an alleged scheme to use public...
by GLC Staff | Jul 22, 2026 | business, charity, chicago, civil, crime, culture, illinois, legal, politics, sports, united states
(Photo: Imagn Images and X) CHICAGO, Illinois — July 22, 2026 — Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick has paid for an independent autopsy of Nolan Xavier Wells, an 18-year-old Black student whose body was found off Mississippi’s Gulf Coast after a Fourth of July...
by GLC Staff | May 26, 2026 | business, canada, environment, illinois, indiana, michigan, minnesota, new york, ohio, ontario, pennsylvania, quebec, STEM, united states, wisconsin
(Photo: iNaturalist) Great Lakes Region — May 26, 2026 Preliminary observations from the 2026 Sea Grant Great Lakes BioBlitz indicate widespread participation across the Great Lakes basin, with thousands of wildlife observations submitted during the month-long citizen...
by GLC Staff | May 23, 2026 | agriculture, automobiles, automobiles, aviation, aviation, business, business, construction, economy, election, entertainment, entertainment, environment, environment, health, healthcare, housing, housing, illinois, immigration, indiana, infrastructure, marketing, michigan, minnesota, new jersey, new york, ohio, pennsylvania, politics, retail, small business, technology, united states, video games, wisconsin
(Photo: KXL) Midwest / Great Lakes Region — May 23, 2026 Drivers across the Great Lakes region are facing sharply higher fuel prices as Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin all recorded some of the largest gasoline price increases in the United States this...
by GLC Staff | May 21, 2026 | culture, illinois, legal, outdoors, politics, united states, waukegan
(Photo: Lake and McHenry County Scanner) Waukegan, IL — May 21, 2026 Authorities in Illinois are continuing to review water safety protocols along Lake Michigan’s shoreline following the death of a teenage boy in Waukegan earlier this week, an incident that has...
