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Emergency cooling centers are available throughout DuPage County

Anyone with information the missing teen should contact Will County Sheriff’s Detective Josh Lane by phone at 815-727-8574, extension 4948

Geneva has activated its cooling centers in response to the National Weather Service heat advisory for Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 26-27.

The City of Batavia is opening a cooling center at City Hall during the Extreme Heat Advisory.

Multiple places in DeKalb, Sycamore and throughout the county are designated cooling centers for anyone needing an escape from heat indexes expected to top 100 degrees by Monday night. Here's where to go if you need to cool off.

Due to the severe storms today’s Northwest Herald newspaper delivery will be delayed

The La Salle County Sheriff's Office asked for help June 26, 2024, finding 40-year-old Sarah F. Petritsch, last seen at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Sheridan. Call 815-433-2161, ext. 6 or 8, with information.

McHenry County is grappling with its first hot temperatures of the summer this week.

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch Tuesday evening for much of northern Illinois through midnight

A volunteer search for Robert Long will begin at 10 a.m. Friday. Man has been missing since April 11.

The National Weather Service Quad-Cities office has issued a tornado watch for Whiteside and Carroll counties in northwestern Illinois in effect until 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Update: NIU officials said police have determined threats of mass violence were not credible Monday after an anonymous email sent to faculty that included requests for a “large police presence in hopes of gaining international news” attention.

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A number of police and other agencies Wednesday located a boy at East 16th and North 32nd roads after he ran out of Wallace School, north of Ottawa, and into a cornfield.

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The closed Peru hospital will become OSF St. Elizabeth-Medical Center in Peru – it will remain a sister hospital to Ottawa – and it should open by Thanksgiving.

OSF HealthCare will welcome providers in gastroenterology and primary care in the Illinois Valley.

Here are the former St. Margaret's doctors who have joined OSF and soon will open in either the Midtown Plaza complex, Midtown Health Center and/or Granville Clinic.

Shaw Local News Network asked OSF to answer the most frequently-asked questions. Here are the answers.

Plainfield Central graduate Derek DeYoung said he was surprised when it happened to him, but he understands baseball is a business.