Joey Weslo

The Yorkville City Council approved a grant planning support contract with the Lakota Group for the Grainco Farm Supply Property in the heart of the downtown Hydraulic District.

Yorkville recently welcomed the family-owned Station One Smokehouse with a ribbon-cutting ceremony with lines of hungry guests wrapped out the doors.

Along North River Street from 8 a.m. to noon every Saturday until Oct. 26, visitors come to enjoy the sounds of acoustic guitars, try out the different food trucks, and shop from local vendors.

Forest Preserve District of Kane County is offering a naturalist-guided stroller hike for parents and their newborns at Muirhead Springs Forest Preserve, on Friday, Aug. 2 from 9-10 a.m.

The Batavia School District 101 Board voted to approve an increase in pay for paraprofessionals in special education programs on Tuesday, June 25.

The Batavia School District 101 Board voted to approve a strategic plan, outlining the district’s priorities over the next five years on Tuesday, June 25.

Five weeks after their emergence, we find ourselves in the final two weeks of a once-in-seventeen-years-phenomenon in northern Illinois.

Plano's Edith Farnsworth House Historic Site will host the art exhibition “Within Nature – Dentro La Naturalez” by visual artist and educator Javier Chavira from June 30 to September 15.

Mike Harmeier, frontman of the Austin-based Texan-neotradtional band Silverada, returns to Yorkville’s Summer Solstice Indie Music Festival to celebrate independent musicians.

The Summer Solstice Indie Music Festival in Yorkville enters its 11th year as it returns Friday and Saturday, June 21-22.

Yorkville resident Jennifer Lasater has received a national honor for her commitment to developing student careers as vice president of student and career advancement at Purdue Global, an online university for working adults.