Huntley faces Prairie Ridge during Fox Valley Conference softball game on Monday, April 14, 2025, at Prairie Ridge High School in Crystal Lake.

Area basketball players compete in the boys’s game of McHenry County Area All-Star Basketball Extravaganza on Sunday, April 13, 2025, at Alden-Hebron’s Tigard Gymnasium in Hebron.

Area basketball players compete in the girl’s game of McHenry County Area All-Star Basketball Extravaganza on Sunday, April 13, 2025, at Alden-Hebron’s Tigard Gymnasium in Hebron.

McHenry faces Huntley in a Fox Valley Conference baseball game on Friday, April 11, 2025, at Huntley High School.

The Marengo softball team traveled to Sycamore Friday afternoon to take on the Spartans in a nonconference matchup.

The tornado that hit Crystal Lake on April 11, 1965 - Palm Sunday - destroyed large portions of the city. Six people were killed and 75 were injured. Damages in the city totaled over $1.5 million, as 80 homes and a shopping center were completely destroyed.

Kaneland faces Crystal Lake Central in a nonconference girls soccer match on Thursday, April 10, 2025, at Crystal Lake Central High School.

Jacobs faces Prairie Ridge in Fox Valley Conference baseball game on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, at Prairie Ridge High School in Crystal Lake. The game was stopped after on inning because of rain.

Burlington Central hosted St. Charles North boys varsity baseball on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 in Burlington.

Crystal Lake Central faces Huntleyin Fox Valley Conference softball game on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at Huntley High School.

A late Easter this year, on April 20, means a longer chocolate season at Anderson's Candy Shop, a longtime business in Richmond and before that in Chicago.

Crowds of people lined Randall Road in Algonquin Saturday, one of a series of protests across the region and the county against policies of President Donald Trump.

A look back at the last week in sports in the Northwest Herald by photographers Gregory Shaver, and Patrick Kunzer for the Shaw Local News Network

Crystal Lake Central faces Lakes in nonconference baseball game on Friday, April 4, 2025, at Crystal Lake Central High School.

Johnsburg faces Marian Central in nonconference softball game on Thursday, April 3, 2025, at Bates Park in Woodstock.