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Residents in one of DeKalb’s largest rental buildings were without hot water for about three days, though it was restored Monday afternoon, city officials said.

One firefighter was injured at the scene of a major fire at Rovanco Piping Systems along I-55 near Joliet Monday morning.

When crews arrived at 8:05 a.m. Monday, April 14, they found a two-story residence with a heavy fire on the second floor, Dixon Rural Fire Chief Dustin Dahlstrom said.

Two drivers are in serious condition following a crash at an intersection that is not too far from Louis Joliet Mall.

Convicted murderer Jonathan D. Hurst has asked a DeKalb County judge to reconsider the two life sentences she handed him last month for the violent murders of Sycamore elderly mother and son Patricia Wilson and Robert Wilson, court records show.

The Princeton City Council is planning to meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, to discuss further employment of City Manager Theresa Wittenauer.

A DeKalb panel is preliminarily backing plans to rezone a Grove Street building that once housed a motorbike seller, in hopes of helping the building’s owner market the vacant space for new business.

A decade after the strongest tornado to come through DeKalb County in recorded history decimated Fairdale, the scars left by the storm still are evident across the small but persisting town.

Peru police are investigating a fatal crash reported at 10:58 p.m. Thursday in the 1200 block of May Road in the city’s north end.

A funeral was held Friday for three children who died in a house fire in Carpentersville in March.

No residents were injured; however, a family dog died as a result of the fire.

A Somonauk 19-year-old was sentenced this week to 25 years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping in connection to the repeated sexual assault of a minor, court records show.

A Yorkville man has been charged after he attempted to hire an undercover police officer posing at a hitman to kill a woman, according to a news release from the Yorkville Police Department.

Northern Illinois University officials declined to provide more information Thursday on the public institution’s five international students whose visas have been revoked by the U.S. government. No one has said publicly why the students lost their visas as of Thursday.

A tentative labor agreement was reached Thursday between the Streator Elementary Association and the Streator Elementary Board of Education, according to a union official.

Bearing the weight of escalating repair and maintenance costs, Coloma Township's newly appointed board and its residents unanimously voted at Tuesday’s annual town meeting to sell the still-vacant US Bank building the township purchased two years ago

Luther Head, who played six seasons in the NBA, made an appearance Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Lee County Circuit Court. An extradition hearing is set for April 17 in Lee County.

An American political science scholar has been arrested and charged in Thailand with insulting the Thai monarchy, the U.S. State Department announced. Paul Chambers, 58, an NIU alum from Oklahoma, could face 15 years in jail.

A teen detainee of the River Valley Juvenile Detention Center in Joliet has been charged with the 2024 attempted murder of a detainee who suffered traumatic brain injury in an attack, prosecutors said.

Machinery inside an industrial building in downtown DeKalb caught fire Tuesday night, and the cause remains under investigation, authorities said Wednesday.

Sterling’s Second Street road construction project will rebuild 10 blocks.

A teen detainee of the River Valley Juvenile Detention Center in Joliet has been charged with the 2024 attempted murder of a detainee who suffered traumatic brain injury in an attack, prosecutors said.

Jonathon Gounaris, 32, is charged with four counts of attempted first-degree murder, three counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm, three counts of aggravated battery and two counts of possession of a firearm without a firearm owner’s identification card.

The owners of The Dirty Bird 815, a staple Sycamore fried chicken restaurant, will soon open up a new food venture in the city’s downtown area.

Starved Rock Wood Products announced the upcoming closure of its wood products manufacturing facilities in Mendota.

Safe Passage Inc. hosted its annual Take Back the Night March and Speak Out event in DeKalb this week to mark Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

The city of Dixon announced the start of its $12 million pedestrian bridge project Tuesday morning at the band shell in Page Park. Project Rock will construct a pedestrian bridge over the Rock River, add 2.8 miles of multi-use pathway and resurface about a mile of Page Drive.

A McHenry home was deemed uninhabitable following a fire early Tuesday morning where no injuries were reported.

James L. Ballard’s plea comes less than two months after the state appellate court upheld a Lee County Circuit Court decision to keep Ballard in jail under the Pretrial Fairness Act, known as the SAFE-T Act

The park is part of the city’s $300 million multiphase Riverfront Reimagined project.

Matthew Hicks, who also teaches building trades at the Whiteside Area Career Center and owns a construction business, built the 13-hole course. It will have a grand opening Saturday, April 12.

In just about an hour Monday, Mark Alex was found guilty of attempting to kill his wife when he hit her with a hatchet and hammer in her Crystal Lake apartment in 2022.

A half hour before jury selection was to begin Monday for a DeKalb bank robbery trial, the man accused asked a judge to postpone, arguing prosecutors didn’t give him enough time to review evidence. Lead prosecutor Daniel Regna said that Matthew L. Martin was “gaming the system."

The Crest Hill City Council gave its approval for a proposed Lockport Township Fire Protection District training facility, including the proposed police gun range, on Monday.

The Streator Education Association is set to strike Friday, April 11, if a labor agreement is not met.

A Whiteside County judge has directed the Illinois State Police to videotape blood and DNA testing to be carried out at the state crime lab in connection with a Rock Falls fatal stabbing case.

The Illinois Department of Transportation announced multiple closures on Interstate 80 in Joliet which are expected to last through the work week.

Rock Falls and Sterling firefighters and CGH EMS were called at 9:37 p.m. Sunday, April 6, 2025, to 222 Ave. D in Rock Falls for a reported structure fire with a possible explosion.

Drivers who frequent Peace Road on the west side of Sycamore should prepare for more than a year of traveling through a construction site, as an estimated $7.4 million road project is set to begin.

Over 500 people gathered in front of Sterling’s Grandon Civic Center on Saturday, April 5, 2025, during a Hands Off rally to protest the Trump administration.

Residents from around Will County gathered in downtown Joliet to protest the policies of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk as part of the Hands Off movement on Saturday.

Hundreds crowded in downtown DeKalb Saturday with a message to President Donald Trump: hands off immigration and human rights, the economy, Social Security and government workers, among others. Similar protests were held in all 50 states Saturday.

Sycamore Community School District 427 has postponed plans to move its administrative offices into a former Nicor call center this month after severe storms damaged the building in March.

Jury selection for the trial of Chicago man charged with robbing a DeKalb bank in July 2024 is set to start Monday, after the man accused, who’s representing himself in court, rejected two plea offers from prosecutors.

Hundreds of residents from Will County area rallied in downtown Joliet, 100 W. Jefferson St., as part of a nationwide Hands Off movement to protest the Trump Administration and the policies of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency on Saturday, April 5, 2025.

A Will County obscenity case was dismissed against a Republican political consultant. A defense attorney said the case was "yet another example of a criminal prosecution intended to silence political speech."

Attorneys for a former Plainfield Township landlord convicted of the hate crime murder of a Muslim child want a judge to overturn the jury’s verdict by claiming he did not receive a fair trial and prosecutors made prejudicial statements against him. 

Police looking for driver of a car that apparently was involved in a crash that caused a semi-trailer truck to overturn on U.S. Route 30 in Plainfield Thursday night.

The probe is part of a wider U.S. Department of Justice investigation into Illinois’ treatment of people with developmental disabilities.

Activists in DeKalb are planning a mass protest on Saturday to rally against the Trump administration over what they call a “brazen power grab” disrupting federal institutions and depriving working people of needed jobs and services. Partisan and nonpartisan groups are expected.