The Chicago Bears' offseason roster additions are nearly complete after the NFL draft. So what are the Bears' top positions of need heading into offseason practices over the next month? Here's a look.

Griffin Somlock was 5 for 5 and Cash White homered in a Sandwich baseball win and Sandwich softball was also a winner Monday.

Members of the Illinois Nurses Association gathered outside Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet on Monday to express concerns about Prime Healthcare's management of that hospital and others in Illinois.

The scammer tells the victim that officers are waiting to arrest them if they do not pay the fee on the phone.

From Capitol News Illinois: Documents filed in federal court suggest the agency wants the information so it can purge the names of suspected noncitizens using a federal database that many have criticized for being inaccurate

Enjoy an evening of Mariachi bands, dancing, family activities and much more at the May 8 event.

Plainfield plan commissioners are set to review plans for Dutch Bros. Coffee, which wants to build an approximately 1,000-square-foot cafe on a vacant piece of land south of Route 30 and west of Spangler Road.

Check out these farmers markets opening for the 2026 season in northern Illinois.

Record stories that captured people's attention in years passed.

The National Weather Service has issued a blowing dust advisory beginning at 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. Monday for most of Illinois along Interstate 80 and south, along with patchy blowing dust west of the Fox River

Senate Resolution 502 was introduced at the request of the Illinois Rock and Roll Museum in Joliet, which formally presented the honor to members of REO Speedwagon during a special recognition event held in March.

The Chicago Bears will enter next season as the reigning NFC North champions for the first time since 2019. Can they make it two straight division titles? Here’s what the other NFC North teams have done this offseason.

The Yorkville Public Library is open 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Curbside service is available.

Catch up on the week’s top Kendall County news in minutes. Hear the week’s 5 most popular stories, read aloud for you, for the week of April 26-May 2

Five shows have been added to the Comedy at Copley series, which runs through Nov. 7, 2026.

More than 450 high school students from 22 high schools across Kane, Kendall, DeKalb, and DuPage counties attended.

A single-family home in Plainfield that sold for $610,000 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Kendall County over the past week.

Jayden Ruth won the 100, 200 and anchored the winning 4x100 relay to lead Yorkville to the Red Ribbon Classic title, Oswego East won the Palatine Relays, Oswego East softball scored eight runs in the seventh for a comeback win and Yorkville Christian baseball won in a walkoff.

Oswego East won its third consecutive boys title at the Palatine Relays while Hersey fended off York to win the girls crown in a tightly contested battle.

From Capitol News Illinois: The Illinois State Board of Education is asking lawmakers this year for $200,000 to develop a new way of counting low-income students as participation in federal assistance programs declines.

A single-family home in Joliet that sold for $245,000 tops the list of the best real estate deals in Kendall County in the past week.

The warmer temperatures also bring the return of insect and disease pests. How can we keep one step ahead of these unwanted visitors?

Oswego's Dontrell Young won the 200 and 400 in record times and took second in the 100, leading the Panthers to second at their Roger Wilcox Invite, Oswego East girls track was fourth at the Glenbard North Weber Invite, and Jacsen Tucker homered twice in an Oswego East win.

Grundy Area Vocational Center students and their families packed into the Coal City High School auditorium Wednesday for the announcement of the award winners for the 2025-26 school year.

Two high school volleyball teams will face off Tuesday to raise money for Mason Janociak, an 11-year-old Channahon student battling a brain tumor.

How much rain fell in northern Illinois in April? In some places, it was more than twice the average, swelling rivers in the region beyond their banks.

Prospective homebuyers considering the real estate market had a range of options in various neighborhoods throughout the region in the past week. We outline recent property sales in Kendall County, all of which featured properties at the price point of $350,000 or under.

The Grundy Area Vocational Center honored the students who received monthly awards throughout the 2025-26 school year.

The Chicago Bears added to their playoff roster during and after last week's NFL draft. Those additions will create different competitions throughout the roster over the coming months. Here’s a look at the Bears’ post-draft depth chart as of May 1.

Yorkville baseball finished off a three-game sweep of Oswego, Yorkville Christian's Phoenix Oliver tossed a complete-game one-hitter at Plano, and Oswego East and Parkview Christian baseball and Oswego, Oswego East and Yorkville softball all won big Thursday.

Mia Anderson capitalized off a deflected shot in the 73rd minute, scoring the game's only goal on a rainy Thursday evening as Lyons edged out Oswego 1-0 in an Ed Watson Naperville Invitational girls soccer match.

The Grundy Area Vocational Center announced during its awards ceremony in Coal City on Wednesday that nine students will be graduating from high school directly into their new careers.

From Capitol News Illinois: The Illinois Accountability Commission is also sending letters to local law enforcement agencies for potential prosecution of federal immigration agents amid Operation Midway Blitz

From Capitol News Illinois: Republican candidate for governor Darren Bailey proposed changes to electronic monitoring rules, but said his plan would not call for returning to the use of cash bail. JB Pritzker blamed the judge in the case for deciding to release the man accused

From Capitol News Illinois: A bill to strengthen privacy protections for transgender and abortion patients in Illinois passed a Senate committee Wednesday in a 9-4 partisan vote.

These Grundy Area Vocational Center students went the entire school year without missing a class.

From Capitol News Illinois: Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, said the Senate will not move forward with a constitutional amendment rewriting the state’s redistricting rules after a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday

Wine on the Fox is set for May 2 & 3 in Hudson Crossing Park.

The National Football League is closely following the Chicago Bears stadium saga as it winds its way through the Illinois General Assembly, officials indicated after a meeting on Wednesday

Compared with a year ago, prices rose 3.5%, the biggest increase in almost three years.

Oswego junior Dontrell Young, who won the 100 and took second in the 200 to be named Athlete of the Meet at Wheaton Warrenville South’s Red Grange Invitational, is the Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week in an online vote. Here is his Q&A with Sports Editor Josh Welge.

There’s plenty to like about the Bears’ draft class, but one glaring issue still looms large, and it’s not going away, Marc Silverman writes

Lone Star ticks have historically been found in the South and Eastern portion of the U.S., but have been rapidly migrating into the Midwest over the past few years, due to climate change and rising temperatures, health officials said

Eastin McBroom struck out 17 and Shawn Seyller hit a walk-off single in Newark's 2-1 win over Earlville, Yorkville softball scored five runs in the sixth and two in the seventh to rally past Minooka, and more in Wednesday’s Record Newspapers sports roundup.

From Capitol News Illinois: A first-of-its-kind apprenticeship program in Illinois launched by the Illinois Retail Merchants Association provides online college coursework and real-life experience

From Capitol News Illinois: In an unexpected move Wednesday, prosecutors said they intend to pursue the dismissal of the main conspiracy charge against a handful of politically active protesters who demonstrated outside a federal immigration facility this past fall

From Capitol News Illinois: JB Pritzker announced Wednesday that IBM will bring its FutureNow innovation and delivery hub to Chicago’s South Side, bringing an estimated 750 new full-time jobs in supercomputing fields, such as cybersecurity, AI and data science

This free, family-friendly event brings costumed characters to downtown Aurora.

Oswego School District 308 school board members voted to hire Ericka Garza as the next principal of Hunt Club Elementary School.

From Capitol News Illinois: U.S. District Judge Rubén Castillo, who chairs the commission, confirmed for the first time that the commission is planning to refer prosecutions of agents who abused their power to Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke