🌱 Want to golf Foss Park while sending North Chicago grads to college?
North Chicago, Illinois Patch AM: a 4 min readGood morning to you North Chicago! Catch up on our news and events right here. Keep reading to stay in the know. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- Want to golf Foss Park while sending North Chicago grads to college?
- Riverwoods DUI arrest includes a driver from North Chicago
- Arson probe leads detectives to a vehicle found in North Chicago
Also on today's calendar: Summer Music Camps and 5 more events.
Today's riddle: What kind of shoes do frogs wear? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Saturday: Mostly sunny and more humid, with a high of 84 and low of 72 degrees.
- Sunday: Humid with partial sunshine, temps: high: 92, low: 74. 🌶 Hot!
- Monday: Humid with a thunderstorm, with a high of 92 and low of 69 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Annual Lake Forest charity golf outing which raises money for North Chicago HS graduates set for Sept. 12 (chicagotribune.com) — A September 12 charity golf outing at Foss Park Golf Course in North Chicago will raise full-tuition scholarships for City of North Chicago high school graduates to attend the College of Lake County. Co-sponsored by Faith Lutheran Church and the North Chicago Public Education Foundation, the event includes 18 holes, contests, and an LPGA challenge. Organizers already support 32 local students with expanded three-year funding and counseling. 
• Domestic Battery, 3 DUI Arrests: Riverwoods Police Blotter (patch.com) — A Riverwoods police blotter notes that a 32-year-old North Chicago resident was arrested earlier this month on DUI and traffic charges following a late-night stop near Lake Cook and Portwine roads. The report also lists other DUI and domestic battery cases from surrounding communities, with all defendants presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
• Angry patrons set Lake County bar on fire after being kicked out: officials (fox32chicago.com) — Detectives investigating a devastating arson at Social Pub in Beach Park tracked a suspect vehicle to Broadway Avenue in North Chicago, where they interviewed two people tied to the case. Three Waukegan men now face felony arson charges, accused of burning the bar after being removed from the business weeks earlier.
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Upcoming Events in
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★ Featured events ★
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Summer Music Camps →
Zion Conservatory of Music, 2500 Dowie Memorial Dr, Zion
9:00 am -
Verdi's Grand Opera "Don Carlo" Comes to Lake Forest's Gorton Center →
Gorton Center, 400 E Illinois Rd, Lake Forest
7:00 pm
Monday July 27
Friday August 7
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Other local events
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Northwestern Medicine Lake Bluff Criterium →
The 14th annual Northwestern Medicine Lake Bluff Criterium
9:00 am -
ARE Gold Carpet Experience →
North Chicago Community High School, 1717 17th St, North Chicago
4:00 pm -
Guided Tour of Forrestal
North Chicago SD 187 1900 Virginia Ave
10:00 am -
IA-FOP Joint Board Meetings
North Chicago SD 187 1717 17th St, North Chicago, IL 60064, USA
6:00 pm -
North Chicago Community Days
North Chicago Community High Sch North Chicago, IL 60064
8:00 am -
Warhawk Welcome Week
North Chicago SD 187 North Chicago, IL 60064
9:30 am
Saturday July 25
Sunday July 26
Tuesday July 28
Saturday August 1
Monday August 3
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Mundelein Farmers Market
GLMV Chamber of Commerce Park St & Seymour Ave. Mundelein, IL 60060
8:00 am -
Yoga at the Beach
City of Waukegan Stiner Pavilion - 201 E. Sea Horse Dr. Waukegan IL 60085
8:00 am -
2026 Back-to-School Resource Fair
City of Waukegan H. R. McCall School - 3215 N. McAree Rd. Waukegan IL 60085
11:00 am -
Flip Circus →
Gurnee Mills, 6170 W Grand Ave, Gurnee
1:00 pm -
Singles Social Mixer Libertyville, IL Bar Crawl Starting at Morgan's →
Morgan's Bar & Grill, 532 N Milwaukee Ave, Libertyville
6:30 pm -
PRETTY SWEET →
City of Waukegan Bass Station - 300 Lakehurst Rd. Waukegan IL 60085
8:00 pm
Saturday July 25
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🪧 Patch Classifieds
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Axelon Services Corporation posted a job opening for Inventory Control Clerk in North Chicago. Apply here.
- Dunkin' posted a job opening for Porter in North Chicago. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near North Chicago here.
🗞 Nearby News
Waukegan
- Ribbons cut on downtown renovation projects: ‘This is showing us what Waukegan can be' (chicagotribune.com)
- Andrew Walker & Jonathan Bennett Are Twinning In This Thirst Trap (fangirlish.com)
- Connie Dornan (chicagotribune.com)
Lake Forest
- six disassembled facade fragments turn into playable open-ended stage in lake forest (designboom.com)
- Liberty One Investment Management LLC Acquires Shares of 4,969 W.W. Grainger, Inc. $GWW (marketbeat.com)
- Providence's Jimmy Copenhaver, who studied film with his mom in fourth grade, takes over as St. Francis' coach (chicagotribune.com)
Grayslake
- Man Charged In Round Lake Beach Murder Will Remain Behind Bars (patch.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Open-toad (Thank you Harold W. for sending it in!)
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