Michelle Meyer

Ever since the family of Alan Jerousek lost him to a car crash at 16 years old in 1987, they have been donating money to Crystal Lake Central High School basketball players to keep his legacy alive.

A Cary man twice convicted of attempted murder in Cook County, and acquitted of murder as a teen in 1980, has turned himself in after being wanted on a sixth alleged offense of drunk driving.

After responding to a reported explosion, firefighters put out a garbage fire next to a home near Cary that officials said might have caused some tires to burst.

Diagnosed with Stage 5 kidney failure, St. Charles resident Linda Bedsole, a former Crystal Lake psychologist, has been desperately seeking a kidney donor for over three years.

The Crystal Lake Park District board will continue receiving legal services from a former board president after an effort to look for another attorney failed to gain enough votes.

The Read with a Buddy program provides free children’s books paired with stuffed animals at local food pantries around McHenry County.

A portion of East Street where the Crystal Lake Food Pantry is located will receive an honorary dedication to two volunteers who were committed to giving back to the community for decades.

The estate of a passenger killed in a UTV crash last year near Hebron received a $1 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit against the estate of the UTV driver.

After surviving COVID-19 lockdowns and a devastating fire, the beloved downtown Crystal Lake gift shop Out of the Box is permanently closing.

The Cary-Grove Area Chamber of Commerce now operates at a new office space off Three Oaks Road, while its previous location will be transformed into residential apartments.

A Crystal Lake man, who is set to face a 4½-year prison sentence for a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme next month, was able to push his local case accusing him of defrauding a McHenry veterans’ association to March.

With Cary’s chief of police retiring, the village has announced that Marengo’s top law enforcement official. who also had a long career in Arlington Heights, will take over the role.

Several school districts across McHenry County are announcing closures or e-learning days Friday as an extreme cold warning is forecast to start Thursday night into Friday morning, bringing in dangerously low wind chills.

Pulte, the same developers for a 175-home single-family plan in Crystal Lake, are looking to build a duplex neighborhood in Algonquin off Randall Road.

A 175 single-family home neighborhood will be built near downtown Crystal Lake in what city council members call the “last infill property” that was once set to be an Amazon warehouse.