A two-year survey by Indiana State Excise Police found that the state’s restaurants and liquor stores lagged behind other retail channels (.pdf) in preventing sales of alcohol to minors.
For the survey, 18-to-20-year-olds, watched over by undercover officers, tried to purchase alcohol at various establishments. Underage buyers succeeded in more than 44 percent of restaurants and [...]

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A new report on the proposed Illiana Expressway presents three options south of Crown Point.
Coster LLC is set to begin construction on a 12,000-square-foot jet hanger at Gary/Chicago International Airport.
Lake County needs to cut another $1.6 billion from its budget due to lower-than-projected tax collections.
Valparaiso is mulling a traffic roundabout at the intersection of Calumet, [...]

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Community Hospital in Munster has added 26 more private patient rooms on the second floor of the West Pavilion that opened Monday, July 6 to cardiac patients in need of specialized monitoring.
Following the relocation of oncology care in February to the fifth floor with private suites, the second floor has been renovated to accommodate a [...]

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