The April 1 election for municipal offices is nonpartisan on paper, but the Democratic Party of McHenry County and at least one GOP Township organization are making recommendations.

Firefighters across McHenry County responded to four brush fires that collectively burned over 40 acres of land Wednesday, officials report.

When Elgin police discovered Karen Schepers’ car in the Fox River on Monday, one question immediately popped into the public’s mind: Why wasn’t it found long ago? She went missing in 1983.

A Crystal Lake man accused of setting campaign signs on fire the morning polls opened in the 2022 primary election pleaded guilty Tuesday to striking a corrections officer in McHenry County jail.

Some Illinois inmates deemed unfit for trial or not guilty by reason of insanity will soon be housed in the McHenry County jail.

District 155 candidate Walter A. Moist IV has been convicted of felony marijuana possession as well as misdemeanor disorderly conduct and battery, McHenry County court records show. What does he say about it?

Forty-two years after a 23-year-old Elgin woman vanished without a trace, police and a dive team searched the Fox River on Monday for clues they hoped to find in the frigid, murky water. Karen Schepers grew up in Sycamore.

One person was found dead inside a home Sunday in Crystal Lake, fire officials said.

The McHenry City Council is mulling whether to proceed with a local grocery tax with the state tax going away.

An Elgin man pleaded guilty Friday to possessing more than two kilos of heroin found inside a lunchbox during a traffic stop in Algonquin and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

A Woodstock man has admitted to bruising a 3-year-old child, and in a separate case, driving under the influence of alcohol.

In less than an hour Wednesday a jury convicted a man of arson for setting fire inside his father’s Lakewood home despite Connor Kirkpatrick saying he was only trying to take his life.

Three people and an infant were displaced from an apartment fire that sustained heavy smoke damage Wednesday morning in Harvard, officials report.

A Woodstock man with a past conviction for burglary to a vehicle pleaded guilty Monday to residential burglary.

Connor Kirkpatrick, accused of setting fire to his father’s Lakewood home, said he was in so much “unbearable” pain that from injuries he suffered when he crashed his car into a Crystal Lake home.