Jeff Helfrich

Rochelle Community Hospital celebrated National Wear Red Day on Feb. 6. February is American Heart Month, and RCH staff wore red to raise heart health awareness and celebrate the heart-related services it provides the community.

The Rochelle City Council discussed a potential development agreement Monday with Project Crossroads, a much talked-about data center development.

Eleven area fire departments responded to an agricultural facility fire north of Rochelle on Tuesday morning, Lynn-Scott-Rock Fire Protection District Capt. John Rimstidt said.

The late James Combs of Rochelle served in the United States Navy from 1943-1946.

The Creston Village Board of Trustees voted unanimously Tuesday to hire Willett, Hofmann & Associates as its new engineering firm.

Amid record need in 2025, the Rochelle Christian Food Pantry also saw record donor support in that calendar year, RCFP Board President Cal Jacobs said.

Beauty Collective & Co. in Rochelle held a grand opening Jan. 18.

Chuck and Lydia Roberts of Rochelle, who have been married for 53 years, have been ski instructors together for all of those years and just recently started their 50th year of ski instruction at Wilmot Mountain in Wisconsin.

A Rochelle woman died Sunday as a result of injuries suffered in a Jan. 26 shooting, Rochelle Police Chief Pete Pavia said Wednesday.

Focus House has tentative plans in place for the construction of a new residence hall at its 3279 Illinois Route 251 location in the coming years, Executive Director Brenda Mason said Feb. 3.

Angie Martin-Bakener was recently promoted to executive director of the Village of Progress after the retirement of previous Executive Director Brion Brooks.

This year the Mt. Morris Senior & Community Center is celebrating its 50-year anniversary of providing services, engagement and education to Mt. Morris senior citizens.

The Rochelle city council voted unanimously Monday to sell 2.5 acres of property it owns on Technology Parkway for $218,000 to a developer with plans for a hotel on the land. 

A person is dead, and another is in critical condition after a report of shots fired Monday morning at a Rochelle apartment complex, a Rochelle Police Department press release said

A planned Illinois Department of Transportation reconstruction and widening of Illinois Route 251 on the north side of Rochelle could start by the end of 2028, Rochelle Interim City Manager and City Engineer Sam Tesreau said Wednesday.