Will County on Monday joined the United States, Joliet's Rialto Square Theatre and Route 66 in marking 2026 as an historic year.

St. Charles city officials say they’re cutting bureaucratic red tape in hopes of streamlining the city meeting structure.

Sam Ramirez, program director of Dixon’s WIXN 95.1 and 1460 AM, River Country 101.7 and The Rock 95.7, received the certificate last week from state Sen. Li Arellano, R-Dixon

From Capitol News Illinois: The feud has allowed Pritzker to grow his national profile as he’s used his bully pulpit to knock Trump and perhaps lay the groundwork for a 2028 presidential campaign

U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran wants to negotiate with Washington after his threat to strike the Islamic Republic over its bloody crackdown on protesters, a move coming as activists said Monday the death toll in the nationwide demonstrations rose to at least 544

The move represents an unprecedented escalation in President Donald Trump’s battle with the Fed, an independent agency he has repeatedly attacked for not cutting its key interest rate as sharply as he prefers

Approximately 100 people on Friday, Jan. 9, attended the Oregon event organized by Indivisible of Ogle County – the local chapter of the Indivisible Project network that has held several rallies in Oregon critical of the Trump administration’s policies and actions.

From daycare for elders with dementia, sheltering the homeless, preventing suicide and assisting those with substance abuse disorders, 16 service providers received $200,000 in grants from the Geneva 708 Mental Health Board for 2025 in its annual allocations of funds.

Manteno Village Board hears updates on fire and safety issues at Gotion lithium battery manufacturing plant.

Oswego Village Board voted unanimously to approve the new 20-year agreement. A boundary agreement between the two municipalities expired in 2022.

Both sides seek summary judgments to either end case or remove Moreno from office before March trial.

The Prairie Center development in St. Charles may become the site of a new private preschool and childcare center with annual tuitions more expensive than a year at Northern Illinois University.

The top item on the wishlist for Twin Cities Homeless Shelter is available just a few minutes’ drive from the shelter. “Right now, what I’d really like, and they are on sale at Menards, are those 27-gallon storage totes,” shelter director Myles Newberry said.

The Ogle County Planning & Zoning Department recently released the December permits it issued.

From Capitol News Illinois: Illinois and the four other Democratic-led states that were subject to the Trump administration’s freeze on $10 billion in federal funding for child care and family services secured a restraining order on Friday in their lawsuit seeking to block it

As anger and outrage spilled out onto Minneapolis’ streets over the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, a new shooting by federal officers in Oregon left two people wounded, sparked additional protests

A Lee County judge ruled Tuesday, Jan. 6, in favor of Dixon’s defense attorney’s motion to pause the information-gathering pretrial process in a lawsuit that alleges the city did not comply with the state's public records' law.

A monument commemorating Ottawa’s role in transporting submarines during the Second World War is coming to Allen Park.

Contractors sometimes knock on doors in the evening in Manteno to solicit work.

A Rockford Democrat running against Rep. Eric Sorensen in Illinois’ 17th Congressional District primary has officially been removed from the ballot, leaving Sorensen without a primary challenger as he seeks a third term

Robin Lif has lived in Lockport since 1994 and has been active in the Lockport Area Genealogical and Historical Society for the past 20 years.

In a rebuke of Republican leadership, the House passed legislation Thursday, 230-196, that would extend expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act as renegade GOP lawmakers joined essentially all Democrats in voting for the measure

March 17 marks the 2026 primary, where voters can pull a Democratic or Republican ballot to pick who appears on the ballot come November. All voters, partisan or not, can weigh in on referendum questions.

The Ottawa Fire Department is set to receive four new radios after the Ottawa City Council approved a quote from Nicholson 1 Communications.

From Capitol News Illinois: A new poll shows Darren Bailey holds a commanding lead in a four-person Republican primary for Illinois Governor

Bourbonnais patrolman Travaughn Bosby was sworn in as the newest officer for the Bourbonnais Police Department during Monday’s board meeting.

The Senate advanced a resolution Thursday that would limit President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela, sounding a note of disapproval for his expanding ambitions in the Western Hemisphere

Attendees will explore what’s new in politics, and how it affects people.

Creston Village President Tom Byro announced Tuesday, Jan. 6, that Creston has sent out a request for qualifications to find a new engineering firm for the village.

Denmark has welcomed a meeting with the U.S. next week to discuss President Donald Trump’s renewed call for the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island of Greenland to come under American control

Minneapolis was on edge Thursday following the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer taking part in the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown, with the governor calling for people to remain calm

Ottawa City Council is moving forward with the next step in replacing the Post Street Bridge, approving phase two design work during Tuesday night’s meeting.

State Rep. Tony McCombie, R-Savanna, will host a series of upcoming office hours events, including one in Byron.

Sublette volunteers in 2025 handled 170 ambulance calls, 59 fire calls and 39 vehicle accident calls. For the 30 volunteers on the department, that adds up to thousands of hours of service.

Developers are exploring plans for a new 23-acre senior living community in St. Charles, with 64 independent “living cottages” and a senior living building for assisted living and memory care. 'Cedarhurst of St. Charles' would be on part of the Heisley agricultural property.

A successful, regional program to attract and train teenagers in firefighting and emergency medical services is returning to Sublette for a second year.

Preservationists of the circa-1840 blacksmith shop in Geneva are proposing a bold plan, not only to restore the limestone remnant to its former glory, but to have it serve as a visitors' center.

People of legal voting age who own or reside on land located within the boundaries of the Ogle County Soil and Water Conservation District are eligible for nomination.

City moves beyond cash-only payments but also now will collect 24/7 for parking at the downtown deck.

Hasty said the architects have been updating their plan while working with city officials to address comments raised during recent discussions.

The Rochelle Fire Department saw an increase in total emergency calls in 2025, RFD Chief Dave Sawlsville said Jan. 2.

The guidelines made a few other notable changes, including a call to potentially double protein consumption

Baxter & Woodman engineering firm will use software to assess the village’s entire 360-mile pedestrian network

Joliet let the last agreement lapse in 2019 and then annexed land for the controversial NorthPoint Development warehouse plan.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday on his social media site that “Interim Authorities” in Venezuela would be providing 30 million to 50 million barrels of “High Quality” oil to the U.S. at its market price

On the fifth anniversary of Jan. 6, 2021, there is no official event to memorialize what happened that day, when the mob made its way down Pennsylvania Avenue, battled police at the Capitol barricades and stormed inside, as lawmakers fled

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants Republicans to reach a deal on health care insurance assistance by being willing to bend on a 50-year-old budget policy that bars federal money from being spent on abortion services

A developer is eyeing the construction of 12 to 15 buildings – including shops, restaurants and a possible hotel – at the site of the demolished Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles.

From Capitol News Illinois: The Illinois Department of Human Services disclosed recently that it mistakenly uploaded private health-related information about hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans to a publicly accessible website and left it there for more than three years

A group of preservationists are making a last-ditch effort to convince the Geneva City Council not to approve demolish request for the circa 1840s blacksmith shop at 4 E. State St.