After almost two hours of discussion and public criticism, the Woodstock City Council rejected a proposal to install security cameras on the Woodstock Square – for now.

A commercial building with multiple tenants in Crystal Lake sustained $30,000 worth of damage from a fire that broke out Thursday morning, officials report.

A Crystal Lake man is accused of “repeatedly” sexually abusing and assaulting a child from 2018 through 2023, when she was between 6 and 10 years old, a McHenry County judge said.

A Crystal Lake man with two pending cases from 2021, alleging he solicited and possessed images of child sex abuse, has been detained again on new, similar charges.

A man has admitted to threatening children who were riding bikes at Crystal Lake South High School and telling them that he was going to shoot them.

An IDOT worker told a Shannon woman who admitted to hitting him with her car on a Marengo roadway that although his “life has changed forever,” he forgives her.

A man and a woman have been identified after they were found dead in a car along the road of a Crystal Lake residential neighborhood Tuesday morning, officials report.

McHenry County Sheriff Robb Tadelman will have no GOP primary opponent next year and is so far unopposed for a second term. How else is the 2026 primary shaping up in the county?

McHenry County nonprofit organization leaders are expressing fears of increasing demand, lack of housing affordability and childcare services in the area as the federal government cuts SNAP and Medicaid benefits.