Calvin Jackson of Rockford, who police say set up a meeting between a woman and a Woodstock man and then entered the man's house and robbed him, was sentenced Wednesday to 17 years in prison.
A DeKalb man pleaded guilty Wednesday to threatening to assassinate state GOP Rep. Jeff Keicher, a threat which Keicher, who lives in Sycamore, called “an affront” to democratic society.
The McHenry VFW's Queen of Hearts jackpot is once against topping $1 million and has rolled over yet again in the latest drawing. Here's all you need to know about the game.
McHenry City Council members took their first steps toward potentially raising their pay, though it wouldn't go into effect until 2027.
Alan Hanke of Crystal Lake was convicted in an $8 million Ponzi scheme; now he's charged with stealing more than $10,000 from the McHenry American Legion Post 491.
Three members of a McHenry family pleaded guilty to aggravated battery of a 7-year-old child. The family members claimed in court documents their actions were in response to the child's violent outbursts.
Crystal Lake District 47 teachers have formally declared an impasse in contract talks, meaning they could go on strike in weeks. They've been bargaining for a new contract for nearly a year.
A man with pending charges in Missouri alleging he sexually abused two children there appeared in a McHenry County courtroom Monday on similar charges involving another child in Wonder Lake in 2006 when he was a teenager.
A pedestrian was struck and killed by a freight train shortly before 3 p.m. today on the tracks that run parallel to Big Timber Road at Coombs Road in Rutland Township near Elgin.