Family Service Agency of DeKalb County announced its plans to host Community Shoe Box, a charity organization that aims to provide a space to collect and give away shoes for those in need.

The Elburn Leos Club is hosting a free dinner for veterans at noon Sunday, Nov. 9 at th Elburn Lions Club, 500 Filmore St., Elburn. The Elburn Leos are youth members of the Elburn Lions Club.

This year features recalibrated benchmarks by the Illinois State Board of Education for the 2024-25 school year.

In addition to the many food banks and food pantries throughout Will County various government agencies and organizations are holding their own food drives and distributions to help those in need.

Restaurant will replace MyGrain Brewery, plans to reopen brewhouse.

Meet the Friday Night Drive MVP for Week 1 of the 2025 Playoffs, Clifton Central senior QB Brady Shule.

Oswego police have determined the driver mistakenly pressed the gas pedal instead of the brake, causing the 2011 Lincoln MKZ to crash into the restaurant.

A proposed mixed-use development that would have created dozens of new residential units and retail space in north Sycamore has failed to advance to the next phase of planning.

The four-building, four-story downtown St. Charles development has gone through several public meetings, highlighting some concerns multiple aldermen and community members share. Chief among those concerns was affordability of the units.

Dixon Fire Capt. Aaron Brown described what he saw during a fatal 2021 fire during his testimony in a Whiteside County courtroom Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, the second day a 12-member jury heard testimony in a wrongful death lawsuit.

The owner of Kankakee's latest restaurant addition, the New York City Deli, is targeting an April opening, however, much site work will first be in order.

The 2023 case against a former Joliet Park District official charged with using a district credit card for personal entertainment purchases remains open in court.

A Steward man has been identified as the victim of a Monday farm equipment and field fire in rural Steward and Lee County

The Chicago Bears had a mixed bag when it came to injury news Wednesday as they started to prepare for Sunday’s game against the New York Giants.

Join hosts Steve Soucie and Josh Welge as they preview Round 2 in the Illinois high school football playoffs.

A new historical marker designated by the National Parks Service, stands testament to the courage and moral conviction the early Congregational and Baptist Church members in Kendall County displayed repudiating slavery.

Join hosts J.T. Pedelty, Sam Ramirez and Eddie Carifio as they preview Round 2 of the Illinois high school football playoffs in the western and southern portions of northern Illinois

Conservative members of the Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared skeptical of President Donald Trump’s sweeping unilateral tariffs midway through arguments in a case that’s a pivotal test of executive power for a tool central to his broader agenda

Bourbonnais board adopts ordinance to purchase 2.19 acres of land from Olivet Nazarene University during Monday's meeting.

Chicago Bears rookie tight end Colston Loveland was named the NFC Offensive Player of the Week in Week 9 on Wednesday.

An IDOT worker told a Shannon woman who admitted to hitting him with her car on a Marengo roadway that although his “life has changed forever,” he forgives her.

At the Nov. 4 Oswego Village Board meeting, Village President Ryan Kauffman read a proclamation commending the efforts of Sergio Uribe Jr. and Ana Uribe.

A Joliet police lieutenant who was put on leave on July 29 still remains on administrative leave and the city inspector general investigation is still ongoing.

Join hosts Mason Schweizer and Steve Soucie as they break down Round 2 of the Illinois high school football playoffs in Kankakee County

Manteno could soon collect short-term rental tax of 5% as it already does on its two hotels.

The Joliet City Council will vote on the levy in December on a proposed $54.5 million property tax levy.

Through a ComEd grant, the 4th annual Kankakee Christmas Parade has sharply increased the prizes for the top three floats in the Dec. 13 event.

The Village of Bolingbrook has declined to release body camera video regarding an Oct. 19 incident that involved federal immigration agents who claimed they were battered.

Encryption of police radio channels will ensure that real-time law enforcement communications are accessible only to authorized personnel.

All 17 St. Charles District 303 schools and administration stepped up to support the St. Charles Public Library Community Cabinet with food donations. The Community Cabinet is available when it is open to anyone who needs food.

A man and a woman have been identified after they were found dead in a car along the road of a Crystal Lake residential neighborhood Tuesday morning, officials report.

An expected November jury trial for a former DeKalb School District 428 employee accused of battering and grooming a student has been postponed by a judge’s ruling at the request of his defense attorney

Candidates of established political parties delivered their petitions.

From Capitol News Illinois: No Republican filed to run for state treasurer by the close of the weeklong filing period for the March 17 primary election, marking, according to Frerichs’ campaign, the first time in at least 90 years a major party has failed to field a candidate

Fire departments, fire districts across the country are onboarding to the new National Emergency Reporting System.

Join hosts Joel Boenitz and Josh Welge as they preview the second round of the Illinois high school football playoffs in the western suburbs

The Chicago Bears boosted their pass rush depth before Tuesday’s trade deadline by trading for Cleveland Browns defensive end Joe Tryon-Shoyinka.

The March 17 primary will feature races for Kendall County sheriff, clerk, treasurer and Kendall County Board.

Spending includes asbestos removal at 'Stadium Club' building. City wants to market it again.

Some five years after announcing plans to develop a Quik Trip fueling center in Kankakee, the project is set to begin.

Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84

Kevin “Kollins” Hedemark, who served as the public information officer for the Will County Sheriff’s Office and as a lieutenant with the sheriff’s auxiliary unit, has died.

Ranked teams did what they should do largely rolling to easy first round victories in the state playoffs. Check out the new rankings here:

The NIU football team heads to Toledo on Wednesday to take on the Rockets, the last scheduled meeting between the two teams ahead of the Huskies leaving the Mid-American Conference at the end of the school year.

A man has sued Chapelstreet Church in Geneva, claiming he was sexually abused by a youth leader as a minor, after the senior pastor had been informed of a prior allegation against the youth leader.

Undercover officers who met with a Joliet man last Thursday for a drug buy at a McDonald’s had attempted to pin in his vehicle and arrest him before he fled and caused a multi-vehicle crash, prosecutors said.

After a full-day’s work, a Whiteside County jury was seated Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, to hear a wrongful death civil case that could see the jury asked to award tens of millions of dollars to a Sterling firefighter’s widow and children.

A Kewanee man admitted in McHenry County court that he killed a woman’s cat after physically abusing the woman in Harvard following the 2023 Super Bowl.

Joliet officials estimate that Casa Catrina Mexican Heritage Cuisine restaurant at city-owned Union Station would generate nearly $700,000 in rent and taxes in five year.

A farm equipment and field fire Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, in rural Steward resulted in a fatality, Rochelle Fire Department Capt. Zach Prewett said.