Local fire chiefs held a press conference pleading for funding for their departments while also warning the public on the ...

The coroner has released the identity of a 20-year-old man who died after he was rescued from Lake Michigan while swimming at ...

She left her room about 2 a.m. Jan. 23 but wasn’t found until 8:45 a.m., Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek said. The high temperature that day was 28; the low was 15.

Banek, the Lake County Coroner, blasted the leadership at Vista Medical Center in a press conference Monday, claiming they did not have a system in place to prevent such an incident or alert staff.

Initial results from a Jan. 24 autopsy suggest the patient died of hypothermia as a result of cold exposure, according to Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek, MSN, CRNA.

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (WGN) — A patient at the Vista Medical Center in Waukegan, Illinois, died last Thursday after getting locked out on the facility’s roof. Chelsea Adolphus, 28, of Waukegan, was ...

Chelsea Adolphus, 28, died on Thursday after getting locked out on the roof of the Vista Medical Center in Waukegan, Illinois. (WGN) Banek, the Lake County Coroner, blasted the leadership at Vista ...