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Forreston High School students invited grade school students to learn more about agriculture at Forreston FFA’s Ag Day, held on the front lawn of the grade school on a sunny, warm and windy morning Friday, April 12, 2024. Students ventured out from their classrooms in 25-minute intervals to pet the animals and climb on three farm tractors that were also part of the event – all in an effort to learn more about agriculture.

Seven members of the Eagle’s Nest Art Group won awards at the 75th annual Phidian Art Show hosted by The Next Picture Show gallery in Dixon.

Rochelle Fire Department was dispatched at 6:32 p.m. Sunday in response to smoke coming from a basement unit on the southeast corner of the building.

An Oregon bowhunter is facing multiple charges of poaching whitetail deer in Lee and Ogle counties, including one case in which he is accused of taking six deer from Lowell Park, a Dixon city park and nature preserve off-limits to hunters.

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.

Lost Nation Golf Club has an enthusiastic new owner, who lives just a stone’s throw away from the scenic Ogle County course.

Lyle Reap has amassed more than 15,000 fishing lures since he began collecting in earnest 10 years ago. In January he will attend a large show in Milwaukee to sell them off, piece by piece, display case by display case, as the result of a terminal cancer diagnosis.

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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.

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The fifth annual Polo Christmas Festival took place Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in and around downtown Polo.