Column: What's Happening in Batavia? Cycle Safe Saturday will focus on e-bikes, and there's an extended chance to get a GREEN grant, writes Lori Botterman.

House Bill 5757 proposes a mandatory revocation of pretrial release if offenders commit a new felony while out on electronic monitoring, state representative said.

Despite all that Alzheimer's disease has taken away from my husband, there are parts of his "essence" that the disease can't touch.

Musical director: We at the Mt. Morris Performing Arts Guild want to give a huge shoutout to Ogle County for your support of the performing arts!

A pencil can draft a page, sketch a beam, mark a board, solve a problem, or capture an observation before it disappears. It does its job quietly, and it does not demand that the first attempt be flawless.

Carlson long hated Trump in his heart while praise poured from his mouth.

If approved, the bill would put a three-day retention limit on captured data absent its role as evidence for potential criminal prosecution.

May is National Get Caught Reading Month, a campaign that aims to encourage people of all ages to enjoy literature and share their love of it with others.

Illinois faces a structural budget crisis: tax hikes, not economic growth, are keeping the state solvent – and that strategy is running out of runway.

Today, you can bet on anything. I mean anything. Sports. Politics. The Oscars. The existence of aliens. Even warfare.

Obviously, $125 million is real money. But the way it shakes out for individual customers is almost negligible.

Outside of the state meet, the most competitive track meet for area small schools is the Oregon Hall of Fame Hawk Classic, with 23 teams present.

The Rochelle Lions Club would like to thank everyone who supported the Rose Day event on Saturday, April 25.

On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as a day to honor the nation’s mothers.

On a gray April morning, Lovina reflects on the rush of spring, the helping hands of family, caregiving for a loved one in declining health, and the quiet strength found in everyday routines.

Because the statutory language clearly applies to businesses, government units obviously are excluded.

I have always used my pockets as portable treasure chests. They carried things of great importance.

Medicaid thresholds, housing vouchers and SNAP benefits all phase out in ways that punish couples who combine households and incomes.

COLUMN: The recent article in the Dixon Telegraph showing that at least 60 dead people were summoned for jury duty for an April trial based on a jury list provided by Whiteside County raises the question of the accuracy of the Illinois voter rolls.

Betty Obendorf of the Polo Historical Society covers current museum outreach and plans for Town & Country Days in her latest column.

Opinion: If enacted, the funding formula would drive an additional $148 million investment to NIU over a decade. This would be transformative, write NIU President Lisa Freeman and DeKalb County Economic Development Co. Executive Director Melissa Amedeo.

Find the perfect champagne or sparkling wine for Mother's Day.

On May 4, 1873 – 153 years ago this weekend – a large crowd gathered on Dixon’s Truesdell Bridge to watch a baptism. Among them was 3 1/2-year-old Gertie. She would be the littlest survivor of that terrible day.

Scudder deftly explains the case history and why Madigan’s appellate arguments failed, routinely addressing what a reasonable jury could believe based on everything shown at trial.

Political rhetoric reaches a breaking point: Can America's leaders find unity before the next attack?

There’s plenty to like about the Bears’ draft class, but one glaring issue still looms large, and it’s not going away, Marc Silverman writes

What do you do at those moments or on those days that it seems like time is flying by? Does that dampen your spirit or maybe depress you a little? Time is constant; however, how we observe time in our minds is not.

This year's "Facts & Figures Report" from the Alzheimer's Association not only looks at the state of the disease in the U.S., but also includes a survey about Americans' feelings about developing dementia and what they're doing about it.

Lawmakers have filed more than 11,400 bills and resolutions since the current General Assembly started in January 2025.

Amakuni turned humiliation into mastery. He let failure teach him, harden him and drive him forward until the thing that once shamed him became the thing that set him apart.

Some of the worst killers had what our society generally considers the “best minds.”

I know it sounds like a cliché, but it just doesn’t seem possible. And at the risk of embarrassing these tiny-babies-turned-strapping-men, I can’t let it pass by without reflecting on it.

As the Bears stadium bill advances in the Illinois House, state Rep. Kam Buckner faces pushback from the governor's office and Senate Democrats over surprise changes to the deal.

Anti-violence might be my deepest held personal position. But that comes from understanding how much we actually have normalized the scourge.

Column: The founders staked this country’s future on its land, and what we do with that land now tells the truth about whether we meant any of it, writes Shaun Langley of DeKalb's Citizens' Environmental Commission.

Column: Where’s your go-to for news? I wondered, “Are we going to survive as a species, the way things are going? They moved up the Doomsday Clock," writes Rick Holinger.

As we enter the month of May, I am proud to reflect on the progress and activity happening throughout our great city of Rochelle.

Ogle County sports columnist Andy Colbert chronicles his experience running the Boston Marathon.

COLUMN: Starchy foods can be part of a healthy diet if you keep two things in mind, namely processing and preparation.

Column: What's Happening in Batavia? A citywide garage sale fundraiser, veterans resource fair and more are coming up this week and in May, writes Lori Botterman.

Today, the NFL draft is one of the biggest sports stories on the calendar, with ESPN and other outlets covering everything in overhyped detail. The first-ever NFL draft in 1936 was a different story.

A family of 30 wakes before dawn to travel to Indiana for a wedding — and discovers what matters most in the journey.

Betty Obendorf of the Polo Historical Society talks about recent finds while getting into item processing at the Polo Museum.

MEIER: We hear the term "hacked" often, in the context of credit cards, bank accounts, and social media accounts.

You could turn this into a party game: “You have 60 seconds to list what you would take in your basement during a tornado warning.”

The $28 trillion problem: How to fix America's spending and health care crisis at once.

The people’s business isn’t always done in the predawn hours of Memorial Day weekend or crammed into a January lame duck session.

Column: At its core, our mission is to generate economic impact and promote DeKalb County as a premier destination for business and leisure travel, writes Cortney Strohacker of the DeKalb County Convention and Visitors Bureau.

As Democrats in Illinois are once again plotting another massive tax hike, the most recent data shows that over 54,000 people and $6 billion of their hard-earned income have already fled our state.

The Driving Change legislation would move Illinois toward a fairer, more affordable system that prioritizes what should matter most: a driver’s record behind the wheel.