Lake County Sheriff's Number Misprinted In Yellow Pages

By Margaret Lyons in Miscellaneous on Jun 4, 2008 10:13PM

A misprint in the Lake County Yellow Pages resulted in the wrong number being published for the sheriff's department. Instead, Paulsen Productions Inc.'s phone number is listed as the sheriff's non-emergency line, and the company gets about 20 calls a day looking for the sheriff, not the "personal and professional development"(warning: makes noise) company. The sheriff's line is 847-549-5200, and Paulsen's is 847-529-5200. Confusing!

But the real story here? People are still using the Yellow Pages. We know, we know, not everyone uses the internet, but jeeze louise, 20 people a day are using the Yellow Pages to look up the non-emergency line for the Lake County Sheriff? There are around 702,682 people in Lake County, which means .0028 percent of Lake County residents accidentally contact the Paulsen folks every day. [Trib, photo by The New No.2]