Backyard chickens will stay banned in Marengo, for now, after an informal poll indicated a small majority of the City Council didn't favor allowing them.

A McHenry man pleaded guilty Tuesday to harassment of a witness tied to texts messages he sent a woman threatening to “shoot up” the McHenry County courthouse and attack the judge presiding over his child custody case.

A man was killed in a crash near Harvard Tuesday morning in the third traffic fatality since Monday evening in McHenry County.

A man was killed in a crash near Woodstock Tuesday morning along the same road where a child died in a separate crash less than 12 hours earlier.

Before losing reelection as Nunda Township Highway commissioner, "Iron Mike" Lesperance used taxpayer money for projects that went beyond the office's legal authority, his successor contends.

Daniel Swiderski is now accused of attempted murder after McHenry County prosecutors said he hit and strangled a woman multiple times while police attempted to make contact with him.

A Lake in the Hills man was sentenced to three years in prison after he was accused of striking and choking a woman as she slept in her home - while awaiting trial on charges of beating the same woman.

A crash Monday evening in the Marengo area shut down two stretches of road.

A child reportedly was pulled from the water Sunday at Sunburst Bay Aquatic Center in Cary and later taken to the hospital.

The Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce has named Steve Slack grand marshal of the 2025 Independence Day Parade.

A crash near Woodstock has closed a stretch of Route 14.

The Lake in the Hills Rotary Club has planted its fifth pollinator garden to help stem the loss of pollinators.

The El Cardunal paddle stepped off at Cornish Park in Algonquin and finished near William C. Bartels Park in East Dundee, covering a distance of about 6 miles.

Developers are looking to create six "industrial condos” in Crystal Lake to house manufacturing businesses – space the plan commission sees as a potential business incubator.

The drive-through-only coffee chain 7 Brew is quickly expanding its presence in the McHenry County, with several new locations planned.