Chadwick

Visitors had a chance to check out a wide variety of animals ranging from alpacas to cows to goats and chickens.

P&C Little Rascals of Chadwick once again held their farm open house Saturday, May 10, 2025.

Voters this week in Whiteside, Lee, Ogle and Carroll counties determined who will make the important decisions regarding their communities, schools, townships, fire departments, parks and libraries. See the results here.

Blake Schwartz was a Thomson prison corrections officer who died by suicide two years ago.

Tickets available for the Rock River Chapter of Ducks Unlimited banquet that will be April 26 in Rock Falls.

Whiteside, Lee, Ogle and Carroll county voters get to decide who will make the important decisions regarding their communities, schools, townships, fire departments, parks and libraries.

One remained hospitalized in serious condition Sunday, March 23, at OSF St. Anthony Medical Center in Rockford.

Before you head to the polls, here is a look at the candidates and the seats they are running for in Whiteside County's city, school and township elections.

The screening’s goal is to provide parents a measure of their child’s development in areas of learning importance. The Bi-County cooperative and schools will offer preschool programs for special needs children ages 3 to 5.

$600,000 has been raised to cover SVCC tuition costs, in perpetuity, for Polo students who earn tuition through volunteerism.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has recognized students named to the dean’s list for the fall semester. 

With the completion of harvest, farmers, including the Elmer Rahn family, now have time to start examining their data.

A total of 257 full- and part-time Sauk Valley Community College students have been named to the president’s list for the spring semester. Another 137 students made the dean’s list.

Morrison, Erie students honored at Bradley University.

Tim Schurman, superintendent of the Chadwick-Milledgeville School District, has been named the 2024 Superintendent of Distinction by his colleagues in the Northwest Region of the Illinois Association of School Administrators.

A tornado warning is in effect for Whiteside, Carroll, Jo Daviess and Stephenson counties until 9:30 a.m. Friday.

The driver of a semitractor-trailer charged with improper passing in the death of a tractor driver in Rock Falls is scheduled to appear in Whiteside County traffic court in Sterling on May 13.

The driver of the pickup truck that investigators say failed to stop at an intersection, resulting in the death of his three passengers, was cited for failure to stop and for violating his graduated license restrictions.

Performances are 7:30 p.m. April 5; 7:30 p.m. April 6; and 2:30 p.m. April 7 in the Chadwick School Gym, 19 School St. in Chadwick.

Each school district within the Bi-County Special Education Cooperative area will conduct screenings of preschoolers on various dates from February to May 2024.

As people make travel plans to celebrate with family and friends this year, the American Red Cross asks donors to set aside time to give blood or platelets for patients waiting for care over the holidays.

In June, Sewer Equipment, an 82-year-old company in Dixon, hit a manufacturing milestone.

A 22-year-old Chadwick man was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison for driving drunk and killing a Mount Carrol woman on Aug. 20.

Special meeting was held Monday, May 22.

In Lee, Whiteside and Ogle and Carroll counties, at least 11 court cases involving the deaths of 15 people, one a full-term unborn baby, are working their way through the courts.

An 89-year-old Chadwick man was killed and another driver injured Thursday in a collision about five miles south of Mount Carroll.

On the eve of his trial for attempted murder, a Morrison man who shot two people in 2019 pleaded guilty Friday to a lesser charge.

Jeramie M. House, whose attempted murder trial is set to begin Oct. 31, was charged Tuesday with two counts of aggravated battery. Investigators said he punched a jail worker in the head or face, knocking him to the ground.

As the trial of a Morrison man accused of shooting two people in 2019 nears, two women who investigators say were his accomplices now also are charged with attempted murder.

Two teens who suffered life-threatening injuries in a collision Sunday on state Route 40 at Genesee Road are still in critical condition, Sheriff John Booker said Wednesday.

A Chadwick driver charged with traffic offenses after hitting and killing a Mount Carrol woman now also is facing felony aggravated DUI and reckless homicide charges.

Two teens were taken to a regional hospital Sunday with ”life-threatening injuries” after a two-vehicle crash Sunday at state Route 40 and Genesee Road south of Milledgeville, the Whiteside County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release Monday.

Services are set for the Mount Carroll woman killed Saturday in a vehicle collision with a Chadwick man.

A 59-year-old Mount Carroll woman was killed Saturday in a collision with a 21-year-old Chadwick man, the Carroll County Sheriff’s office said.

The American Red Cross is announcing an urgent need for blood, and Sauk Valley residents have several opportunities to roll up their sleeves and help.

Painting, archery, wagon ride, petting zoo, BB gun range, a fire truck, gun safety, beginner shotgun, intermediate shotgun are the scheduled activities.

Sixteen Sauk Valley-area school districts and the Whiteside Area Career Center are recipients of some of the $30 million in Illinois State Board of Education school maintenance grants.

Carroll County Transit officials have decided on a location for the agency’s new garage

Carroll County Transit will be building its new garage on donated land.

Blood supplies still are critically low; here are opportunities to donate in February in the Sauk Valley.

First-time and faster, more reliable internet service is coming to underserved areas of Whiteside and Carroll counties, thanks to about $10.3 million in state Rebuild Illinois funds awarded to three area providers.

Chadwick-Milledgeville announces spelling bee winners

Driver license facilities, closed for two weeks on Jan 3 because of the surge in COVID-19 cases, will remain closed a week longer “out of an abundance of caution,” the Secretary of State’s office announced Thursday.

The nearly 50-year-old Lanark Building Center, which houses Carroll Service Co., a lumberyard, hardware store and ag coop at 505 W. state Route 64, was destroyed by a fire Sunday.

Firefighters from five counties, many of them volunteers, responded to the blaze, which was called in to 911 around 7:30 p.m. by a passerby who saw smoke in the area, Lanark Fire Chief Cory Barnes said.

Special worship service in Chadwick to honor veterans

“I want you to leave inspired," says painting instructor of her artistic enterprise in Chadwick.

Dixon, Sterling and Lee County police reports for May 10, 2021