Michelle Meyer

Marengo Union School District 165 finds itself in a debate over separation of church and state after paying a woman who runs a Jesus-based program $10,500 to speak to parents and teachers.

Pop's Corn Crib, the little and iconic popcorn shack in downtown Crystal Lake, will reopen with new owners after the previous owner suddenly died earlier this year.

A crash involving an overturned truck shut down a stretch of Route 176 near Crystal Lake Wednesday morning.

Heightened security at Crystal Lake park board meetings will continue for as the board president says he feels “uncomfortable” and "demonized" after previous meetings included yelling, personal jabs and booing.

The Algonquin Commons shopping center has been sold to new owners about a year after it went on the market.

About a dozen protesters and counter protesters gathered outside a record store in McHenry Saturday over comments made by the owner regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Crystal Lake will soon be home to two marijuana dispensaries again as another company will take over the shuttered Spark’d location nine months after it abruptly closed.

Encore Memory Care at Crystal Lake now has a Little Free Library outside its property for anyone to use.

Cary staff ask residents who pay utility bills online to update the P.O. Box address through their bank in order to avoid delays in payment processing.

A Lake Villa man was sentenced to prison after going on a “reign of terror” in the McHenry area on night in 2023 – firing a gun, damaging properties, fleeing police and stealing vehicles in and around McHenry two years ago.

A Kane County man who served 24 years in prison for the sexual assault and murder of a 20-month-old child faces new charges alleging he was living near a Carpentersville day care, authorities say. He previously lived near Crystal Lake after his prison release.

Algonquin restaurant BrewHaus 31 received assistance from the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Chamber Foundation’s emergency grant to help recover from a water main break.

A former teacher, Susan Kelly of Crystal Lake recalls how magical books were for her growing up. She hopes to pass along the same feeling in her newly opened, independent Magical Forest Bookstore in Fox River Grove.

A new live entertainment facility could be coming to Algonquin’s downtown, a business that neighboring property owners say could transform the area into a “destination place.”

Zoning commissioners gave a positive recommendation for a proposed mixed-use luxury community in Cary, despite resident concerns over a road extension that would connect a neighborhood road to Route 31.