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If you live in or around northern Kane County, chances are you’ve heard about the Longmeadow Parkway. Soon, you’ll get to drive it to cross the Fox River — and you won’t have to pay a toll.
Algonquin Founders’ Days festival returns this weekend with music, food, a parade, fireworks and debuts a beer festival on Thursday.
No injuries reported from a house fire Sunday evening in Lake in the Hills that broke out near an electrical service meter, officials report.
The Algonquin Lions Club has awarded two scholarships of $3,000 each.
McHenry County property transfers for June 27-July 3, 2024.
High water levels and swift currents have created “conditions significantly hazardous” for boaters on large portions of the Fox River in McHnery, Lake, Kane and Kendall counties and the edge of La Salle County.
Algonquin-based Community School District 300 opens applications for a vacant school board member position after board member Randi Gauthier announced her resignation last month citing personal reasons.
Area of Crystal Lake near the Dole Mansion and Lundahl Middle School were among areas hit by downed trees from Monday's storms.
An Algonquin teen charged as an adult when he crashed his vehicle while under the influence of marijuana pleaded guilty.
Lake in the Hills Rockin' Ribfest, McHenry's Fiesta Days, Algonquin's Founders' Days Festival and more are all coming up in the weeks ahead.
A former Algonquin man, 19, had been charged in a spate of burglaries from cars in Crystal Lake and Cary and an attempted residential burglary.
Algonquin-based School District 300 board member Randi Gauthier announced her resignation last week citing personal reasons, District 300 officials report.
Several McHenry County-area chambers are getting Back to Business grants from the state to offset the effects of the pandemic.
Two drivers are seriously injured in a head-on car crash Saturday night along Randall Road in Algonquin, the Algonquin Police Department reports.
The Huntley District 158 Education Foundation awarded $41,000 in scholarships to 16 Huntley High School graduating seniors.
A subdivision with 99 single-family homes and 150 townhouses near Westfield Community School will be built in Algonquin.
A guide to public pools, beaches, aquatic centers and splash pads in McHenry County.
Firefighters extinguished a fire inside a garage attached to a home in Huntley within 10 minutes Thursday afternoon, according to the Huntley Fire Protection District.
McHenry County is grappling with its first hot temperatures of the summer this week.
Bricks and Minifigs, located at 212 Eastgate Court, Algonquin, sells new, used and retired Lego kits and thousands of loose bricks and miniature figures. The store opens June 29.
Lake in the Hills isn't proposing to ban “personal relationships” between employees, but is placing places restrictions on them to try to avoid conflicts of interest and nepotism.
Huntley residents and visitors to the village website can now use a chat feature to get questions answered or connect with a person who works for the village.
A new law enforcement firing range will host a joint open house Tuesday with the Cary Public Works Department next door.
The seven-minute short film “Reasonable Doubt” was created by Wisconsin-based production company Pico Blvd Entertainment with Algonquin native Alex Flees as its leading producer.
McHenry County has a busy summer schedule of festival, concerts and other fun activities for young and old.
Staff at the McHenry County Conservation District picked the Fox Bluff Conservation Area for their Cicada Celebration, but the bugs have not emerged at the park yet.
Enjoy plenty of festivities this weekend in McHenry County from a food truck fest in Woodstock to Harvard's Milk Days carnival.
One shop is moving out of the Old Courthouse, another is closing down and the former Public House space remains vacant.
The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office, along with police in Cary, Algonquin, McHenry and Lake in the Hills, debuted the firing range, which ash a 50-yard range, classroom, firearm cleaning room and a range control room.
The "Wall That Heals," a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., will receive a motorcycle escort through McHenry County Wednesday prior to a display in West Dundee. A Field of the Fallen flag display will take place in Cary this weekend also.
May is National Burger Month, and we've compiled a list of some area restaurants that specialize in the art of creating the perfect patty.
A crash was reported late Monday morning at the intersection of Pyott and Algonquin roads in Lake in the Hills.
Seven months ago, Algonquin resident Alison Wright, 52, took home the silver medal at the adult Gymnastics Masters Team World Cup competition in Germany. Now she returns to the international stage.
Two new principals are coming to Huntley School District 158 this summer.
Lake in the Hills officials said they are reviewing their procedures after a carnival that was shut down because of fights did not have a security plan as part of its village permit.
A man pleaded guilty Thursday to felony mob action in connection with the 2021 death of a man in a road rage incident in West Dundee.
Farmers market season starts in Spring Grove and McHenry County College hosts a wine tasting this weekend in McHenry County.
The village of Algonquin has announced the graduation of its Ted Spella Leadership School’s class of 2024, which took place in April at the Ganek Municipal Center.
Algonquin police took a District 300 Jacobs High School student into custody after the student reportedly posted a weapon on social media, Algonquin Police reports.
After fleeing police Tuesday afternoon on Randall Road in Crystal Lake a Chicago man was arrested and charged with possessing hundreds of grams of fentanyl and cocaine.
A Rockford man accused of stealing a vehicle from an Algonquin dealership pleaded guilty to burglary Friday and was sentenced to four years in prison.
Some seniors at Huntley High School and other McHenry County high schools are graduating with both high school diplomas and McHenry County College associate's degrees.
A McHenry man accused of robbing a bank of about $5,000 while leaving his 9-month-old baby home alone was released from McHenry County jail pretrial Tuesday.
The Pickle Haus held a launch party for their nation on Friday, May 3, 2024, in Algonquin.
Crystal Lake Brewing has a lot to celebrate this year as they take home an award from the World Beer Cup and mark 10 years in the business.
TikTok cooking personality and long-time Algonquin resident Darryl Postelnick came up with the Chicago-style cheesy beef pizza for his collaboration menu item with Pickle Haus
Two apartment units are uninhabitable after an attic fire Saturday night in Crystal Lake, the Crystal Lake Fire Rescue Department reports.
The public can weigh in on the McHenry County 2050 transportation, which envisions road, bridge, public transportation and other improvements over the next quarter-century.
Algonquin orthopedic surgeon Dr. Michael Kogan was asked in 1995 to help with Jacobs football team on the sideline at games. He's been a part of the Golden Eagles' sports family ever since then.
More than 200 people packed into Sew’d Hop’d Brewing in Huntley on a recent Sunday to find out which fire or police department had the best chili recipe.