Kane County

We Can Lead Change and other organizations are sponsoring a No Kings rally from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, June 14, on South Randall Road and Gleneagle Drive in Geneva, as part of a national day of action.

The city of Batavia will host a slew of new events this year celebrating patriotic pride and unity, from 1 to 8:30 p.m., beginning at the Peg Bond Center and Batavia Riverwalk downtown.

U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood spoke with constituents in Joliet on Saturday, accompanied by fellow Democrat Congressman Maxwell Frost of Florida. The pair discussed the proposed Republican budget bill and how social services, veterans and job programs will be impacted.

Author, illustrator and St. Charles local Emma Knuckman’s first book “Rewind & Play: ABC The Millennial Way” brings nostalgia to ’90s kids and a new way to connect with their children as they learn the alphabet.

A Geneva city contractor, Geneva Construction, will begin working on the 2025 Street Program, which includes resurfacing 19 residential roads.

Batavia Mayor Jeff Schielke will proclaim the month of June as Pride Month and the city will raise the Unity Flag on the city flagpole on Monday, June 2, 2025.

Inviting guests to take a step back in time to the grandeur and splendor of a bygone era, the Victorian Fox curated full-house rental in downtown St. Charles celebrated a ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 27.

Friends of the Fox River and the Fabulous Fox Water Trail invite the public to join El Cardunal, a new, six-mile community paddle event from Algonquin to East Dundee, that takes place in June.

Two pedestrian safety improvements are expected to delay downtown traffic on Route 64 and Illinois Street in St. Charles beginning June 2025.

The Batavia Public Art Initiative is seeking artists to design a new mural project titled “The City of Good Energy” to serve as the gateway into the downtown community.

Senior citizens and advocates rallied at the Beecher Center in Yorkville on May 28 against threatened cuts to the federal Older Americans Act.

For the second time this year, Batavia City Council members discussed amending the city code to limit the sales of Kratom, synthetic hemp and THC derived products within city limits.

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St. Charles resident Arvena “Vee” Guynn celebrated her 100th trip around the sun on Wednesday, May 28, with friends, family and a mayoral proclamation at River Glenn of St. Charles.

From concerts to board games, there is plenty to do in Kane County this weekend.

A new plan to reform public transit that emerged Wednesday in the General Assembly would establish the Northern Illinois Transportation Authority in place of the Regional Transportation Authority and create one universal fare system.

Commonwealth Edison customers should expect a significant rate increase beginning June 1 and continuing indefinitely, for which energy industry enterprises are passing the buck.

The Kane County Clerk’s Offices will be closed at the Geneva and Aurora locations on Thursday, June 19, 2025 for the Juneteenth Independence Day Holiday.

German 1 got a one-year reprieve for the 2025-26 school year, after more supporters spoke out Tuesday at the Geneva District 304 school board meeting, imploring officials to keep that language among its course offerings.

The crash, which involved the child and a vehicle driven by a family member, occurred in the driveway of the victim’s home, according to a news release.

The Campton Hills Police Department will join with numerous police agencies in northern Illinois to conduct a traffic safety initiative on Wednesday, June 4, along the Illinois Route 64 corridor.

A small child was seriously injured Tuesday evening, May 27, after bring struck by a vehicle in their own driveway in St. Charles.

A three-day Oneness Festival is scheduled from June 20-22 at Good Templar Park, 528 East Side Drive, Geneva.

Whole Foods Market in St. Charles is set to open its doors to customers for the first time on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.

Inspiration from the everyday unorthodox were on display with more than 110 local, national, and international artists drawing in inquisitive art-show-goers along Riverside Avenue in downtown St. Charles on May 24 and 25.

Jamie Dunlap became a business teacher at Geneva High School because of a boring accounting instructor – and she took a circuitous road to get there.

Batavia motorists should expect delays on Wilson Street this week, and McKee Street and Van Nortwick Avenue will be closed through August.

The annual Geneva’s Got Talent competition will return to the Swedish Days Festival next month, and is seeking talented participants.

As Geneva District 304 officials grapple with the prospect of sunsetting its German language classes due to declining enrollment, supporters lobbied against letting the program die.

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Local bounty is in season at these beloved farmers markets throughout Kane County.

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St. Charles set to begin summer street rehabilitation in June, and aims to improve nearly 14 miles of roadways by October.

Crowds lined Third Street in Geneva as the Memorial Day parade headed from the train station to Wheeler Park for ceremonies.

The Geneva Chamber of Commerce and owners of Twee Partees, a balloon styling and party goods store in Geneva, cut a ballon ribbon outside the shop on Thursday May 22, 2025.

St. Charles Boy Scout Daniel Zedan restored the headstones of Civil War veterans buried in St. Charles for his Eagle Scout project.

St. Charles library will host art-centered events in June 2025, including a mural unveiling, local artist exhibit and photography class.

The nation's first entrepreneurship center located within a jail officially launched from the Kane County Sheriff's Office as an independent initiative this month.

St. Charles community members are invited attend a "Pre-Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on the Underground Railroad“ presentation on Thursday, June 5, 2025, at the St. Charles Episcopal Church at 994 N. 5th Ave. (Route 25).

Kane County's Longmeadow Parkway Bridge Corridor over the Fox River near Carpentersville received an Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies at its awards ceremony Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

The city’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, for the fiscal year that ended in April 2024, was awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting by GFOA.

The city of Batavia is in the early stages of reviewing plans to convert the vacant former quarry site just east of the Fox River into a three-story, 72-unit, affordable apartment building called The Residence at River Point.

The city of St. Charles will raise the pride flag and host an Inclusion Celebration from 4 to 6 p.m. on Monday, June 2, 2025, outside City Hall.

Mayor Clint Hull said while the decision is on city staff‘s radar, the formal review process has yet to begin. St. Charles stands to lose about $2 million per year without the tax, he said.

Two Central High School students in Burlington's District 301, Caleb Goldstein and Sanay Gulati, both juniors, achieved perfect scores of 36 on the ACT.

Proposed Trump administration cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - SNAP – which provides food buying assistance for low income people, has officials at the Northern Illinois Food Bank in Geneva concerned.

A new event will be added to this year’s ceremonies; the March of Honor. Anyone with an American flag can participate in the march.

Colleen Ahearn is the new Chief Philanthropy Officer for the Northern Illinois Food Bank, based in Geneva.