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A 59-year-old man from Genoa was killed in what Genoa police said Friday was a hit-and-run collision this week. A Belvidere woman accused of driving a car and leaving the scene after the collision is "fully cooperating" with authorities, police said.

A 2.1 million-square-foot facility slated for the city's south side dubbed Project Wildcat earned DeKalb city support this week. Those behind it remain tight-lipped about the company's identity, though work is expected to begin this fall and bring with it hundreds of jobs.

Federal, state and local elected officials gathered on 1,280 acres of land in Shabbona Thursday to support legislation that would clear a pathway for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation’s decades-long pursuit to reclaim land in southern DeKalb County.

The first case of the monkeypox virus has been identified in Winnebago County, which is in the nine-county Public Health Region 1 that includes Whiteside, Lee, Ogle and Carroll counties.

A Colorado man is dead and two others are seriously injured following a one-vehicle crash Tuesday on Interstate 88 in Lee County.

A 30-year-old man suffered “multiple gunshot to his body and extremities,” Rock Falls Police Chief Dave Pilgrim said in a news release Tuesday evening.

A teenager was injured in an overnight shooting earlier this week which remains under police investigation, said DeKalb Police Chief David Byrd Tuesday.

Firefighters were summoned to the blaze at approximately 11:40 a.m.

One man was seriously injured and one man is “being detained” in a shooting around 10:13 this morning, Rock Falls Police Chief Dave Pilgrim said in a news release.

A 55-year-old Dixon man accused of videoing his sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl was hit with eight felony charges Monday and ordered held on $1 million bond.

A developer is asking for Sycamore city support to build a 40-townhome condominium complex on Hathaway Drive near the city’s south side, according to city documents.

A 55-year-old Dixon man, accused of forcing a 13-year-old girl into his vehicle, sexually assaulting her and using her to make child pornography, is in Lee County jail facing at least five felony charges, the state's attorney said Sunday.

After two-and-a-half days of testimony, it took a Whiteside County jury all of two hours Friday to convict a Rock Falls woman of first-degree murder in the death of her self-described best friend.

Aroma’s Hookah Bar in DeKalb, which also offered a casual spot for smokers to legally partake in marijuana products, will close its doors in October, business owners announced on social media this week.

A Chicago developer wants to purchase and rehabilitate around 530 units at Suburban Apartments and Estates in unincorporated DeKalb County for $30 million. DeKalb city officials say the properties could be annexed into city limits to better maintain quality of living for tenants.