Boil order lifted for final Aqua Illinois customers in southern Lake County

Hawthorn Woods resident Bella Mladenova loads a case of bottled water into her vehicle Tuesday at the Hawthorn Woods Aquatic Center. Mladenova was among the 309 Aqua Illinois customers who, until Tuesday afternoon, were under a boil order because of water system failures. (Russell Lissau/Daily Herald)

A boil-water order affecting hundreds of people in southern Lake County was lifted Tuesday, 10 days after it was initiated.

The directive’s end meant residents in the Glennshire subdivision in Hawthorn Woods and the unincorporated Forest Lake neighborhood could resume drinking, washing with and cooking with water from their taps.