Justine Neslund first spotted a pair of great horned owls in her Crystal Lake neighborhood in 2023, hearing them first, then finding them with her camera. “Mom just looks mean and Dad is like, gorgeous, and his eyes are always giant and dilated,” said Neslund, a wedding photographer who does wildlife photography on the side.
A Northern Illinois University student was charged this week after police searched his dorm room in DeKalb and allegedly found more than 20,000 images depicting child sexual abuse on his electronics. Police allege the student used photos of real people he knew and artificial intelligence to create the materials before selling them online via Snapchat.
Chester Weger, who was convicted in 1960 of a murder in Starved Rock State Park, has died. Weger, 86, spent almost six decades in prison for killing Lillian Oetting, one of three women fatally bludgeoned in St. Louis Canyon. He died June 22, according to Forensic Medical of Kansas. The agency provides coroner’s services for Clay County, Missouri, where Weger was moved this spring.
Johnsonville Foods, a longtime business mainstay on the north side of Momence, will only be a memory. Officials from the Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin-based company informed a plant-wide gathering of employees on Monday in downtown Kankakee that the plant was closing its Momence operation, which eliminates 274 jobs.
A New Lenox woman was never charged with any crime when her 2012 vehicle valued at $5,285 was seized by police, but she spent almost two months fighting with prosecutors to get it back with no driving restrictions.
The father of a Rock Falls man murdered in that city Feb. 14 wants the Rock Falls police chief to resign after the department’s officers testified that several protocol violations were committed during their investigation of the murder scene.
Campton Hills stands to receive $9.45 million in permit fees from a proposed annexation of 962 acres with 900 homes, according to a draft annexation agreement. The charge to Geneva-based developer Shodeen Group is $10,500 per dwelling unit to a maximum of 900, of which 700 are to be single-family homes, according to the agreement.
Nina Swistara knows the safety a house provides her family can be shattered in a heartbeat. After two gun bullets tore into her home while her family was inside, the Yorkville mother is taking action. Swistara pleaded to Yorkville city council members for their support.
