Claire O'Brien

As students in Huntley Community School District 158’s two middle schools start the school year, their schools have new leadership.

Stretches of Routes 47 and 120 in and near Woodstock will be resurfaced in the coming weeks, the city said Saturday.

Preliminary damage assessment teams will be out in McHenry County on Wednesday, Sept. 3 to inventory effects of storms in August that toppled trees and power lines.

A child was flown in critical condition Saturday afternoon after being run over by a lawnmower near Cary.

Crystal Lake Main Beach is closed for swimming Sunday because of elevated bacteria levels.

Authorities have confirmed an officer-involved shooting took place in Carpentersville late Thursday, with preliminary findings that an armed man was shot and wounded.

The person killed in a crash Sunday in Spring Grove was identified as a 24-year-old local man.

Two people and an animal were exposed to a bat that was found in a Cary home and turned out to have rabies, marking the first known human exposure in McHenry County in 2025.

The Huntley Park District is set to buy land – that the village is selling – to build a new park.

Catholic church leaders in northern Illinois have asked schools in their dioceses to review security policies as they pray for those affected by a shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis.

A Lake in the Hills senior living facility has opened a second home.

Woodstock will hire an outside firm to help handle communications and other related tasks for the Route 47 widening project, despite some misgivings on the Council. IDOT is overseeing the work.

Three Woodstock businesses will be eligible for relocation assistance from the city, which plans to raze the structure as part of a redevelopment of the area.

Action Packaging will be moving its operations to Woodstock – with a little help from the city.

Huntley officials have reviewed plans for a new housing development for a second time – after trustees said in February they liked the idea but not the location.