During our National Night Out celebration, the Police and Fire Departments, Mayor of Mundelein, and the Police and Fire Explorers, visit 38 National Night Out parties and barbecues going on throughout Mundelein. Participation in the events are exceptional and the turnout from our community is excellent. We had 98% of our Neighborhood Watch Programs participate for the past two years. 

Some of the larger parties take place at the Whitehall Manor Apartment Complex, Poets Subdivision and the Tullamore Subdivisions. Officers meet with residents and discuss such programs as DARE, Neighborhood Watch, Drug Enforcement, Gang Suppression, and why we are participating in the National Night Out celebration. We hand out coloring books, junior police badges, night-lights and more. Children have painted anti-gang and anti-drug slogans on coffee mugs donated from a local business, and the Boy Scout and Girl Scout Councils were available to register children for scouting programs. In 1997 we added a community flashlight walk and in 1998 started a huge centralized police-community picnic.

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