Dixon, Freeport and Sterling also currently have Main Street programs.

Illinois state Rep. Tony McCombie, R-Savanna, is on track to retain her 89th District seat, with unofficial results indicating a solid primary election win over challenger Victoria Onorato of Byron

Here are Ogle County’s March 2026 election results, including a referendum asking voters if Illinois should opt into a voucher-style federal scholarship program that would give donors a tax credit

Duane “DC” Meyer, 43, was found guilty Jan. 29 of murdering Maggie (Rosko) Meyer, 31, and the couple’s 3-year-old son, Amos, in their Byron home Sept. 19, 2016.

A home in rural Chana in Ogle County was a total loss after a Tuesday night structure fire, according to an Ogle County Sheriff’s Office news release.

Eight employees were transported to local hospitals after suffering minor injuries during a chemical exposure incident Tuesday evening at Constellation’s Byron Clean Energy Center, a nuclear power plant in Byron, Ogle County Sheriff Brian VanVickle said.

Eight workers at the Constellation nuclear power plant in Byron were sent to the hospital Tuesday night after they were exposed to a non-radiological chemical that had escaped a holding tank.

A Davis Junction woman who was the subject of a 9 1/2-hour missing persons search was found dead Wednesday afternoon, Ogle County Sheriff Brian VanVickle said Wednesday night.

The Ogle County Sheriff’s Office and other agencies in the Davis Junction area are searching for a missing 68-year-old woman who has dementia.