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A fire broke out in an RV park near Marengo, destroying on recreational vehicle.
Solar farms have been controversial, but two new ones have been approved in Woodstock and near Wonder Lake.
Calvin Jackson of Rockford, who police say set up a meeting between a woman and a Woodstock man and then entered the man's house and robbed him, was sentenced Wednesday to 17 years in prison.
The McHenry VFW's Queen of Hearts jackpot is once against topping $1 million and has rolled over yet again in the latest drawing. Here's all you need to know about the game.
McHenry City Council members took their first steps toward potentially raising their pay, though it wouldn't go into effect until 2027.
Alan Hanke of Crystal Lake was convicted in an $8 million Ponzi scheme; now he's charged with stealing more than $10,000 from the McHenry American Legion Post 491.
Three members of a McHenry family pleaded guilty to aggravated battery of a 7-year-old child. The family members claimed in court documents their actions were in response to the child's violent outbursts.
Crystal Lake District 47 teachers have formally declared an impasse in contract talks, meaning they could go on strike in weeks. They've been bargaining for a new contract for nearly a year.
A man with pending charges in Missouri alleging he sexually abused two children there appeared in a McHenry County courtroom Monday on similar charges involving another child in Wonder Lake in 2006 when he was a teenager.
McHenry High School seniors signed up to vote Tuesday, ahead of their slightly younger peers who won't make the cutoff to participate in the high-stakes election.
A Wisconsin man is accused of beating a female relative with "sheer brutality" during an altercation in a Woodstock home.
Henry and June Giugni built their house, its ponds and streams outside of Harvard, but are ready to downsize and are putting the house up for auction.
Marengo residents are invited to an upcoming 100th birthday celebration for Grant Intermediate School, formerly Marengo High School. A Louis Sullivan-designed school was once torn down in Marengo.
McHenry County property transfers for the week of Aug. 15-21, 2024.
A “large number” of vases were stolen from gravestones at McHenry County Memorial Park in Woodstock earlier this month, officials report.
Alan Hanke pleaded guilty in June in an $8 million Ponzi scheme; now the Crystal Lake man is accused of theft by using a veteran group's debit card on more than $10,000 in person expenses, authorities allege.
Thousands of people gathered at the Historic Woodstock Square to celebrate Mexican Independence Day Sunday.
Nearly a year after breaking ground on the redevelopment of the long-struggling Crystal Court shopping center in Crystal Lake, tenants in. the new Water's Edge could start moving into apartments as soon as November.
The Spring Grove Storytelling Festival returns on Sept. 21.
Residents that have a channel in their backyard debate with the Crystal Lake Park District of who is responsible to dredge the mucky water.
Huntley has been chosen as a stop on a new Chicago-to-Rockford Metra train line, and local officials are mulling where in downtown Huntley the station might go.
A Spring Grove woman is accused of pushing an elderly man down, leaving him on the toilet for hours and leaving him on the ground after a fall, according to a criminal complaint.
Two Chicago men are accused of posing as officials with the Federal Trade Commission and scamming a Spring Grove couple out of $60,000.
Eastwood Manor, a subdivision near McHenry that is currently under a boil order, lost its water service completely on Friday due to a water main break.
Isabel's restaurant in Woodstock was an early example of farm-to-table dining – in this case from the owners' own farm in Marengo.
A person previously diagnosed with West Nile virus has died of the disease, the McHenry County Department of Health reported Friday.
Head to Marengo for Oktoberfest and walk in Richmond for a fall wine walk this weekend in McHenry County.
Crystal Lake resident Julie Hermann shares her story of being diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer after finding a lump under her arm
Artwork created by children staying at Tornillo, a temporary immigrant detention center in Texas, will be on display in Crystal Lake this weekend.
A Chicago man pleaded guilty Thursday to possessing a machine gun and stolen Toyota Camry in Woodstock and got prison time.
Residents in Eastwood Manor near McHenry were alerted late Wednesday that the subdivision, which gets its water from private provider Aqua Illinois, is under a boil order until at least Saturday.
Two people were injured when a motorboat crashed into a seawall Thursday afternoon along the Fox River in Cary, officials report.
Chipotle is opening its first Huntley location soon.
A woman is accused of performing dental whitening without proper medical certification and of tampering with a computer in McHenry County.
Get your pets vaccinated against rabies and microchipped at upcoming clinics from McHenry County Animal Control.
Programs in McHenry County aim to help former jail and prison inmates reenter the workforce.
A Marengo resident sets up his own 9/11 remembrance display in his yard each year to mark the anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
McHenry hosted its annual remembrance Wednesday for the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The city of McHenry has hosted a Sept. 11 ceremony in honor of the 2001 terrorist attacks every year since 2002.
Two Huntley residents are accused of animal cruelty to dozens of animals and their home was deemed uninhabitable, according to authoritiies.
Jeeps on the Run, a McHenry-area Jeep owners club, is sponsoring their 12th annual Toys for Tots run by raffling off a 2024 Jeep Wrangler, donated by Ray Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram in Fox Lake.
A driver was flown with serious injuries after a car crashed into Walmart in Algonquin.
An Elgin woman pleaded guilty to residential burglary in Crystal Lake and was sentenced to eight years in prison.
The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America will be remembered during ceremonies around the McHenry County area Wednesday.
Huntley is trying to get some more businesses into a corporate park district off I-90.
The McHenry-Wonder Lake Lions Club with host a charity golf outing on Sept. 20.
A man charged in Cary last year for being a felon with possession of a bullet and cocaine has pleaded guilty in the case.
The Polish grocery store KD Market replaces Joseph’s Marketplace in Crystal Lake and will have a grand opening Thursday.
Patrick "Slim" Summers, owner of McHenry's After the Fox bar, died Sept. 4. A memorial service at the bar and restaurant he founded in 1982 is pending, according to his family.
A Wonder Lake man convicted in 2019 of sexual abuse was charged Sunday with violating terms of the sex offender registry during the time he also was on pretrial release for drug and gun charges.