Oakwood Hills

Four months after Chief of Police Juanita Gumble was forced from office, the Hebron Village Board this week confirmed the appointment of Peter Goldman, with Village President Robert Shelton breaking a 3-3 tie.

Candidates for village boards, city council, school boards and a host of other elected roles began filing paperwork at with local clerks and at the McHenry County Clerk's office for the April 1, 2025, consolidated elections.

Republican McHenry County Board District 5 candidate Deena Krieger answers questions from the Northwest Herald.

Democratic McHenry County Board District 5 candidate Steve Firak answers questions from the Northwest Herald.

“Haunt Season” was created by Lake Bluff native and Gurnee resident Jake Jarvi for Epic Pictures Group and is mainly filled at the local haunted house attraction “Realm of Terror” in Round Lake Beach.

McHenry County police departments are urging people to remove valuables from cars and lock them amid a spate of burglaries to cars.

Lisa Orris' nonprofit Grief Guide provides free support groups, but is in need of donations to support the growing demand.

Amy and Annakate Wagner have a milkweed garden in their backyard to raise monarch butterflies. Milkweed, a native plant with a declining population in Illinois, is key to butterfly survival.

Charles Gozzola was convicted of murder in the 2000 shooting death of his wife. Now he's on trial in McHenry County on a felony battery charge and misdemeanor domestic battery charge.

Here's what will you pay in sales tax if a McHenry County-wide Mental Health Board sales tax referendum and Marengo local sales tax referendum are approved.

A 19-year-old was identified as the person who drowned in Silver Lake after a kayak tipped over.

After losing her son in a motorcycle crash, Lisa Orris, formerly the pastor at Hope Church in Crystal Lake, opened Silver Lake Retreat on Silver Lake in Oakwood Hills.

Notable McHenry County-area deaths of 2023

There is more to deciding on jumping in a lake on a cold New Year’s Day than just wanting to try it, according to some of the 20 people who took that plunge in McHenry County on Monday.

There's no need to pretend to be cheerful at the Blue Christmas event at AROMA Coffee & Wine in Crystal Lake, organizers say.

None of the McHenry County-wide office-holders are facing a Republican primary challenge next year, and only one Democrat filed to run for one of those seats.

Crystal Lake Community High School District 155 is proposing to raise its property tax levy as allowed under the tax cap.

A man was rescued from Silver Lake in Oakwood Hills after his sailboat tipped over Thursday morning, the Cary Fire Protection District reports.

An 83-year-old Oakwood Hills woman was killed Aug. 12 when the car she was driving was struck by a fuel tanker truck near Volo, authorities said.

National Night Out, where police officers and community members can meet, is set for Tuesday, Aug. 1. Often, these events have food and activities for community members. This year marks the 40th observance of the annual National Night Out.

Ten McHenry County women were honored Wednesday by the Northwest Herald for their community work.

Those charged with felonies the week of May 14 by the 10 police departments, as well as the McHenry County Sheriff's Office.

The staffing shortage that closed Woof & Run in McHenry isn't unique to the indoor dog park and day care as some McHenry County employers struggle with the mismatch between the skills they're seeking and the ones applicants have.

Nearly four dozen of the local races in McHenry County will be competitive on Tuesday, as voters head to the polls to decide who will lead their school boards, municipalities, libraries and parks.

Those charged with felonies the week of March 12, 2023, by the Algonquin, Crystal Lake, Fox Lake, Harvard, Huntley, Island Lake, Marengo, McHenry and Woodstock police departments, as well as the McHenry County Sheriff's Office.

A 32-year-old Oakwood Hills man is accused of secretly creating and possessing video of a child nude and in the shower at a Fox Lake home, according to McHenry County court records.

Question: Why are you running for office? Answer: There is work to do. Not many people want to do it. I do that kind of work. Read Mark Wise's full election questionnaire here.

Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital received a three-star rating from Society of Thoracic Surgeons, which places it the among the elite for heart bypass surgery in the United States and Canada, officials said.

Here the list of who is running for village boards and city councils in McHenry County.

With the polls now closed in Illinois, the count can begin to see which candidates will take the 18 open seats on the McHenry County Board.

The race for Illinois governor won’t be the only one on Tuesday’s ballot. With the redrawing of the state’s political maps, the make-up of the entire McHenry County Board and both the U.S. and Illinois houses of representatives will be determined, along several other races.

Most McHenry County communities will have their sanctioned trick-or-treating hours on Halloween, which falls on a Monday this year.

A McHenry County grand jury indicted these people on the following charges the week of Sept. 5, 2022.

A Republican candidate for the McHenry County Board hopes to unseat a Democratic incumbent, who she says has seemed “very distracted” with things not relevant to the prosperity of the county.

Figuring out how to pay for body cameras for deputies, a higher salary for the sheriff and other new state requirements while keeping property taxes flat is a priority for all three candidates running for the McHenry County Board’s eastern district but they differ in approach.

McHenry County voters weighed in Tuesday on who they want to represent them on the newly redrawn and condensed County Board.

Competitive races line both the Democratic and Republican ballots as early voting continues ahead of Tuesday’s primary election. Here's a round-up of who and what is on the ballot.

While the McHenry County Department of Health and other local health agencies recommended the continued use of masks as part of a “layered approach” to slowing the spread of COVID-19 in schools, some McHenry County school districts decided to recommend but not require masks.

Incumbent Mike Lesperance faces challenge from McHenry resident Eric Dowd

Objection questioned whether petition signatures matched voter registration rolls, whether signers lived in township