Sam Lounsberry

Here are some pumpkin patches, farms and festivals you might like to visit throughout northern Illinois

If Johnsburg School District 12 nowadays went through the same $3.7 million cut in state funding it saw early last decade, it could mean the elimination of about 68 entry-level staffers, Superintendent Dan Johnson said. That didn't happen though.

A prominent lake-view building near Wonder Lake has remained vacant since being bought 12 years ago by a local property owner who also owns two other former bars and restaurants.

McHenry-area residents Amanda Helma and Doug Peterson don’t want their community to forget a child, who remains unidentified, died tragically young after being pulled from the Fox River near the McHenry Dam in 1963.

McHenry’s country music fans are excited, and Mayor Wayne Jett hopes their enthusiasm leads to the construction of new seasonal retail spaces at city-owned Miller Point along the Fox River in the coming years.

Grammy winner coming to Petersen Park on Sept. 17; money to go toward small seasonal retail spaces on Fox River

A woman was hit in the shoulder and at least one stray bullet pierced a nearby home in Woodstock, shattering a bathroom mirror during a Monday night shooting, police and the neighbor said.

The test positivity rate for McHenry County spiked to 35.7% Friday due to a backlog of data from a lab that had not yet been included in the state’s reporting, IDPH says.

Frigid temperatures were set to set in Monday night through the rest of the week in northern Illinois following two days of snowfall that brought nearly 6 inches total to some parts of McHenry County.

'Top hat is on order,’ Mayor Mike Turner said ahead of his first Groundhog Day prognostication ceremony.

Vaccines made by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson will all be on hand, and, while walk-in patients will be accepted, it is preferred patients pre-register online.

Holiday Hills residents suffered a bit of sticker shock this month when they were alerted by the local sewer operator set to hook up the village to its wastewater network that the extension project would over $5 million more than they were initially told last year.

The Illinois Supreme Court heard oral arguments from lawyers for McHenry County Clerk Joe Tirio on Wednesday in a case kicked off when he made a controversial move by preventing voters from deciding whether to abolish McHenry Township in the November 2020 election.

COVID-19 hospitalizations fell for the fourth straight day across Lake and McHenry counties, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported Thursday.

Harvard Mayor John Kelly thinks the city has much better odds of bringing a new active user to the long-vacant former Motorola campus now that it’s in the hands of a private, Nevada-based owner after a court-approved sale last year.