The Village of Gurnee and the Gurnee Park District will be hosting a volunteer fair on Wednesday, January 15th from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Viking Park Dance Hall (4374 Old Grand Avenue, Gurnee,...

Long before the removal of the 200,000 gallon Old Grand Water Tower in 2018, plans were underway for the construction of a 2,000,000 gallon water tower on a vacant parcel owned by the Village on Knowl...

Fiscal Year 2019/2020 Budget funded $14.9 million of capital and infrastructure improvements, which made it the Villages largest capital program in history. The capital plan for 2019 included: $6.6...

In February 2018, the Village of Gurnee approved a plan to support the relocation of Alpha Media and four radio stations (102.3 XLC, 1220 WKRS,1050 WLIP, and 95.1 WIIL ROCK) to Gurnee Mills. Coming in...

The Village of Gurnee had another major year of new construction and redevelopment, with over $55 million in building investment in the community in 2019. Gurnee welcomed several new businesses to our...

The Gurnee Fire Department was awarded a $1.2 million Staffing for Adequate Fire & Emergency Response (SAFER) Grant. The funding comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help d...

In response to concerns regarding ethylene oxide emissions from two sources in Lake County (Vantage Specialty in Gurnee and Medline Industries in Waukegan), Gurnee, Waukegan and the Lake County Health...

On Sunday, June 9th, the Village of Gurnee hosted the DC Wonder Woman Run Series where participants could run or walk the Gurnee 5K, 10K, or Half Marathon race. The Wonder Woman run brought over 5,000...

On Monday, May 6th, Mayor Kristina Kovarik promoted Interim Police Chief Brian Smith to Gurnee Police Chief and Acting Deputy Chief Jesse Gonzalez to Deputy Police Chief. Chief Smith began his employm...

On Friday, July 26th the Union Pacific Big Boy Train passed through Gurnee on its “Great Race Across the Midwest”. Hundreds of spectators lined the Union Pacific tracks in Gurnee to see on...

In mid-September, the Gurnee area received a seven-day rainfall total of over 7.20 inches. Due to the heavy rainfall, road closures and home flooding occurred from rapidly increasing river levels. Fol...

On December 30, 2019, at approximately 10:55 AM, officers responded to a report of a retail theft at the 6500 block of Grand Avenue. A male subject entered the store and requested to see jewelry f...