Chain O’ Lakes

The Fox Waterway Agency is warning of “an abundance of debris on the water” as the 2023 boating season approaches.

January and February are the ice fishing season in northern Illinois, but thin ice has been keeping anglers off the lakes, one local guide said.

Over the last six years, Scott Uglinica, of Volo, with a 1928 Ford Model Popcorn Wagon in tow, has raised thousands of dollars to help children in need in McHenry and Lake counties.

Village presidents from Fox Lake, Spring Grove, Richmond and Volo say development, business and growth are coming to their towns.

The fourth annual “It’s Our Fox River Day,” was on Sept. 17, and was initiated by Dundee Township-based Friends of the Fox River, for which Schiavone is staff educator.

Jenni Schiavone of Algonquin had canoed sparingly along the Fox River before deciding she would travel the entire 200-mile length this year to promote “It’s Our Fox River Day.”

An Ingleside man, who police say attacked and choked a woman on his boat after she asked to return to shore, is charged with domestic battery and unlawful restraint.

The Tim Harrison family and the McHenry County Historical Society invite the general public to attend the plaquing ceremony of Cabin No. 8 at the former Pink Harrison’s Resort, 804 Harrison Lane in Johnsburg. The plaqing will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 16.

An annual boat-in music festival returns Friday to the Chain O’Lakes.

Two Naperville men found found dead Sunday in Pistakee Lake near Johsnburg were in the area ice fishing, the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.

Two Naperville men were identified as the pair found dead Sunday in Pistakee Lake near Johnsburg, the McHenry County coroner said.

The bodies of two missing men were found Sunday afternoon in Pistakee Lake near Johnsburg, the McHenry Township Fire Protection District said.

A man being pulled on a tube by a boat Friday morning in Fox Lake is believed to have died after falling into the water, while two children who were on the tube and wearing life jackets survived, police say

Michael Jacobs, 43, of Joliet, was trying to help a girl struggling in the water, police said

With boat sales surging, so are memberships in boat clubs that keep different types of vessels ready to take on the water.