This Week in Libertyville

Libertyville residents will likely see another parking lot modification as soon as fall. Cook Memorial Public Library board voted 5-2 to widen the current Brainerd entrance at Tuesday’s board meeting. The widening would turn the current entrance into an exit, too, and allow for temporary closure of the Church Street exit during village events. The village board, which requested the change, will foot the estimated $5,000 bill for construction.

Parents, teachers, and administrators who attended Monday night’s school consolidation forum at Vernon Hills High School had one message for State Representative Carol Sente: if the state’s school consolidation bill goes any further, they want local voter control.

Although Lake County Government officials agreed to remove correctional facilities, detention centers and jails from their list of permitted uses for a planned expansion in Libertyville, nearly a dozen resident testified that they feared the county's list of proposed uses for the land was too vague. Residents worry that if permitted uses under the existing zoning code, such as drug rehabilitation, probation, mental health or substance abuse facilities, were ever built, it could potentially put their children at risk.

For the past 10 years, students have attempted to capture a leprechaun on St Patrick's day. With the help of their parents and teachers, the students devise and build their own traps in the hopes of winning the pot of gold. This year, they almost caught one, but the mischievous leprechaun left behind tiny green footprints and a note which said, "You can't catch me!"

Village sales tax revenue has dropped sharply over the past decade. Numbers suggest Libertyville residents may be eating more, buying more pharmaceuticals - and shopping for fewer cars.