Mt. Morris officials’ efforts to improve blighted properties in the village are continuing.

The tour includes coffee and conversation events and traveling office hours.

An Ogle County sheriff’s deputy was released from a Rockford hospital Friday night, just two days after he was shot in the line of duty during a standoff with a rural Dixon resident at Lost Lake.

Early discussions by an Ogle County Board task force dedicated to ensuring the future financial stability of the county have centered around increasing landfill revenue and decreasing Ogle County Jail expenses, possibly by closing the jail.

Owners Doris and Rick Kennay founded Kennay Farms in 2019.

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A groundbreaking for the new municipal building for the city of Polo and Buffalo Township took place Wednesday, March 6, 2024. Both municipalities are contributing to the cost of the $1.93 million building, which is located at 118 N. Franklin Ave., Polo.

The year-end numbers are in, and they show that video gaming has remained fairly steady in Lee, Ogle and Whiteside counties over the last two calendar years.

Mount Morris took another step toward construction of a neighborhood that would “flip the script” on disability services in Illinois when a request to rezone 22.83 acres of land for the proposed Hill Street Neighborhood went before the village's Planning Commission on Jan. 8.

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Polo's $3.7 million Colden Street Project encompassed about 10.5 blocks, both in the downtown business district and in residential neighborhoods. It is meant to help alleviate water buildup on Illinois Route 26 — named Division Avenue in Polo city limits — during torrential rain events. The project took two years to complete and, although almost nothing went exactly as planned, city officials still say they are happy with the end results.