Kendall

Unofficial vote totals show a Democrat judge in Will County has a high lead over a Republican judge in DuPage County for the 3rd District Appellate Court race.

The Joliet Junior College Board of Trustees may appoint a new member next Wednesday at a special meeting.

DeKalb, Ogle and Winnebago counties experienced the strongest straight line winds during the July 15 derecho that swept across northern Illinois, according to analysis of the event conducted by the National Weather Service.

Yorkville recently welcomed the family-owned Station One Smokehouse with a ribbon-cutting ceremony with lines of hungry guests wrapped out the doors.

The Kendall County Public Safety Center next month will be renamed the Richard A. Randall Public Safety Center in honor of the former Kendall County sheriff.

Steam and Cuts serves both men and women for hair cuts and styles and shaves.

Human remains that were accidentally unearthed in May by a contractor crew doing utility work in the 200 block of Park Street in Yorkville have been identified as belong to a woman who died in 1848.

The Yorkville City Council unanimously passed a package of agreements regarding development of 228 acres of Bristol Township, in unincorporated Kendall County, into a data center campus.

Even though Monday’s tornado caused significant damage to his horse farm on Roth Road in Oswego Township, owner Bruce Grider realizes it could have been worse. “During a storm, the first thing I think of are the horses and the animals outside,” he said.

The Sandwich VFW Post 1486 will sponsor a rib dinner from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, July 20, at 713 S. Main St.

The Yorkville River Fest will feature family activities, live country music, beer tasting and more.

The area, most of its land area not even surveyed by the U.S. Government to enable it to be legally sold, would eventually include nine surveyed townships, each consisting of 36 sections of (nominally) 360 acres each

Free Plano food pantry will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 19, at 200 N. Center St.

Morton Arboretum's research is part of a hypothesis that the excess amount of nitrogen and carbon contained in billions of dying cicadas creates a nutrient pulse, providing super-charged fertilizer to forest ecosystems.

The Village of Montgomery and the Fox Valley Park District hosted a ceremony on June 8 in Montgomery Park dedicating two monuments to the community’s veterans, first responders, and essential workers.

Oswego Country Market is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. nearly every Sunday through Sept. 29.

The safety checks are funded through IDOT and are meant to reduce the number of dangerous and impaired drivers off the road

U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood D-Naperville, toured the Kendall County Food Pantry in Yorkville on Monday, praising the work done there. “It can be very difficult for these type of organizations to get money for structural improvements,” said Underwood.

Illinois State Police will be conducting extra traffic patrols in July between the hours of 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. watching for impaired driving and seatbelt usage.

Seward, however, was never a nativist. After his brief fling with the anti-Masonic movement, he seems to have become an extremely tolerant person for his day.

Activities planned include a foam party, a bounce house, food trucks, cotton candy, and a DJ dance party. Your Performing Arts Center invites people to bring lawn chairs and their swimsuits for an afternoon of fun.

On June 27, a public presentation was held to celebrate two outdoor public art projects initiated by the Oswego Cultural Arts Commission.

The annual pork chop dinner fundraiser by the Friends of Illinois Extension and Kendall County 4-H Foundation raised funds to support local programs.

The Montgomery Police Department conducted tobacco compliance checks at businesses throughout the village on Wednesday, June 26.

Tickets are on sale now for Venue 1012's next show on Saturday, Aug. 24, the Sins N’ Roses & Electric Shock–The AC/DC Show.

Oswego Presbyterian Church’s Earth Care Team will be providing polystyrene foam recycling collection for the community on Saturday, July 27.

The Summer Solstice Indie Music festival returned to Yorkville for the 11th time over the weekend bringing country jams and hundreds of attendees to Riverfront Park at 301 E. Hydraulic St.

Mike Harmeier, frontman of the Austin-based Texan-neotradtional band Silverada, returns to Yorkville’s Summer Solstice Indie Music Festival to celebrate independent musicians.

The Summer Solstice Indie Music Festival in Yorkville enters its 11th year as it returns Friday and Saturday, June 21-22.

Plano American Legion Post 395 has an upcoming Family Fun Picnic planned with activities for both children and adults.

The hammerhead worm is perhaps one of the strangest and least well-known invaders to our gardens. They eat other invertebrates, such as earthworms, slugs, isopods (rolly pollies), and other insect larvae.

Three families have been displaced following a fire at an apartment complex in the 100 block of Harbor Drive in unincorporated Kendall County Tuesday night.

Kendall County Forest Preserve District will present a cicada-related event from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 8, at Hoover Forest Preserve.

The tour will begin at noon and will traverse what once was the industrial sector of Oswego from 1840 to 1910. Preregistration is required.

Senate Bill 2751 calls for counties to waive building permit fees for veterans with disabilities and their caregivers when modifications are needed to accommodate the veteran’s disability,

Meghan Ostreko, who has 19 years of experience in local government, will oversee various administrative functions and assist in managing day-to-day operations within the village.

May and June will mark the return of periodical cicadas, and Kane and Kendall counties will host several events to celebrate.

Warm weather season means more time spent outdoors. It is also time for ticks to be out more and everywhere. Changes in climate are leading to an increase in the ticks and the potential for unwanted diseases.

Group serves disadvantaged persons and people of color, including African Americans, women and persons with disabilities, in DuPage, Kane, Kendall and Will counties.

The new public works facility was completed in 2023 and built in response to a growth in the village's population and services.

The event will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 5 and feature live farm animals to observe and pet, hayrides, barrel train rides, farm demonstrations, food and more.

Waubonsee Community College was the host sponsor of the Illinois Design Educators Association (IDEA) Region 3 Competition and Awards Ceremony this spring.

The meal includes two (Art’s) pork chops, baked beans, coleslaw, applesauce, and a roll

Kane County State's Attorney Jamie Mosser and Assistant State's Attorney Greg Sams drafted a bill to make it harder for a person accused of committing a crime while drunk to use their voluntary intoxication as a defense.

The Rev. John Rothfusz will be formally installed as the pastor of Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sandwich on Sunday

Any private landowners with forests, from homeowners to farmers, can apply for the Improving Oak Ecosystem Health in the Great Lakes Region in Northeastern Illinois program until March 29.

State Rep. Jed Davis, R-Newark, collaborated with health care providers, parents and state agencies in drafting the bill.

Roads throughout northern Illinois Tuesday morning were seeing some of the early effects of a snow storm expected to drop up to a foot of snow in some areas today.

Lee, Ogle, Boone and Winnebago counties are now at high for COVID hospitalizations; severals others in the northern Illinois region have moved to medium.

Tri-County Auto Theft Task Force has received $1.8 million in state funding to continue their efforts to combat vehicle thefts and other related crime in Will, Grundy, Iroquois and Kendall counties.