By Michelle Meyer, June 18th, 2024
A bit of Crystal Lake history was unearthed as spur line train tracks from 1860 that were used for ice harvesting were discovered during reconstruction on Dole Avenue Thursday.
By David Petesch, June 8th, 2024
St. Charles Plan Commission members heard plans for a proposed commercial development near Charlestowne Mall on the city’s east side at their June 4 meeting.
By Maribeth M. Wilson, June 28th, 2024
After more than 47 years, a woman left abandoned in a Seneca field no longer will be known as Jane “Seneca” Doe but by her name: JoAnn “Vicky” Smith.
By Denise M. Baran-Unland, June 22nd, 2024
Four Joliet churches that will close at the end of June are hosting farewell celebrations as they get ready to close their doors.
By David Petesch, June 16th, 2024
Yorkville’s newest mural was unveiled last month on the north side of Crusade Burger Bar at 209 S. Bridge St. in downtown Yorkville.
By Cathy Janek, June 17th, 2024
A local Woodridge group of volunteers is hard at work helping a number of families who have been displaced from their homes for three years as a result of the devastating tornado that struck the community on Father’s Day 2021.
By Payton Felix, June 13th, 2024
“The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, it’s connection.” Sauk Valley Voices of Recovery Executive Director Gerald Lott references that conclusion – drawn by Johann Hari in the 2015 TED Talk “Everything You Think You Know About Addiction is Wrong” – as his philosophy behind creating the recovery community organization that now serves Lee, Whiteside, DeKalb and Ogle counties.