Project's price tag saves Village $200,000.
Drivers who use Waukegan Road between Routes 60 and 76 in Lake Bluff will have to contend with another lighted intersection by late fall. The Village of Lake Bluff approved the installation of a traffic light at the intersection of Waukegan Road and North Shore Drive at its June 25 meeting. Preparation work is already underway and work is expected to continue through October. North Shore Drive provides access to and out of the village's industrial park where a number of businesses are located, including the School District 65 administrative office. The Village will wind up saving nearly $200,000 after awarding the construction contract to Peter Baker and Son Co., in Lake Bluff, which came in with a bid of just over $1 million. The …
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A Labor of Love by Two Restaurant Brats Brings Sophistication With the Occasional Surprise.
In the year it has been open on North Waukegan Road in Lake Bluff, Grille 43 has made the leap from new local curiosity to a mainstay restaurant with a devoted following. It was busy early the night I visited, from the after work business-suits crowd to some lingering shorts and flip-flops on the outdoor patio. The brainchild of two homegrown "restaurant brats," Ted Boufis and Dina Boufis, Grille 43 opened Sept. 27 of last year very near the former site of Dina's father Gus Pappas' longtime Lake Bluff restaurant, Little Nick's, which was named after her uncle Nick, Gus's partner. Before he moved to Lake Bluff, Ted and his family ran steakhouses in Indiana and he opened two restaurants as owner and six others as general manager in Michigan…
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5:12 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
As long as stoplights are being added by the industrial park making it less "terrifying". Why not go farther north on Waukegan Rd and put one in so the residents who live on the eastside of Waukegan Rd in Knollwood easier to get on Waukegan Rd and off WaukeganRd. Talk about terrfying. more ›