The Volunteer Millers at Fulton’s Windmill Area will host mural artist Eve Van Kampen for a program on her work at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, at the Windmill Cultural Center.

Local physicians say loneliness, anxiety, and lifestyle shifts are contributing to long-term health risks for millennials

From Capitol News Illinois: The bill would also require social media platforms to have default privacy settings for minors that would stop addictive feeds, location sharing and transactions with digital currency

For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people’s mental health and can lead to addiction, eating disorders, sexual exploitation and suicide

Woodlawn Arts Academy is proud to exhibit artwork from talented students and staff from all over the Sauk Valley area and is pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 student-teacher art exhibit.

Will County residents Tessa Quinlan of Mokena and Jen Ivey of Lockport have been helping families with special needs loved ones connect with qualified caregivers for the past eight years through Facebook.

The world’s biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms

Three of the world’s biggest tech companies face a landmark trial in Los Angeles starting this week over claims that their platforms — Meta’s Instagram, ByteDance’s TikTok and Google’s YouTube — deliberately addict and harm children

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed a world-first social media ban for children younger than 16 that took effect Wednesday as families taking back power from tech giants but warned the implementation would be difficult

After investing many years into their Supervised Agricultural Experiences projects, two Illinois FFA members were named top in the nation as American Star winners. Nevin Erbsen from the Eastland FFA Chapter in Carroll County is one of the honorees.

Whether it will be built on a site under construction on U.S. Route 34 and Kendall Point Drive is not entirely clear. In February, village trustees unanimously approved plans for a 12,500-square-foot grocery store.

Realigning the boundaries for each school is part of a phased approach the district is taking when it comes to student assignment and enrollment growth.

William Sutton joined the Marine Corps at age 18 and was deployed to Sangin, Afghanistan in September 2010 as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan that began in October 2001 in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Joey Martinez is the owner of The Barber Battalion, which is located at 123 W. Washington Street, Suite 106, in downtown Oswego.

Oswego police have determined the driver mistakenly pressed the gas pedal instead of the brake, causing the 2011 Lincoln MKZ to crash into the restaurant.

"Remembering our Veterans" will officially open to the public Thursday and will continue through Saturday, Nov. 29.

During a recent Oswego School Board meeting, staff presented board members with the district’s annual safety and security update.

The Plainfield Village Board unanimously approved the new agreement at its Oct. 20 board meeting and the Oswego Village Board unanimously approved the agreement at its Oct. 21 board meeting.

Village trustees reviewed the latest plans for the former Traughber Junior High School property during their Oct. 21 Village Board meeting.

Investigators from seven police agencies worked together to conduct compliance checks on 114 offenders, making contact with 58.

Medical sharps are any objects with sharp edges that can penetrate skin, such as needles, syringes, and scalpels, and require special disposal to prevent injury and disease transmission.

Darryl Lee Jr., 19, of Kankakee, faces 11 felony counts, including first-degree murder, concealment of homicidal death and armed robbery.

The suspect has been taken into custody. At approximately 5 a.m., Oswego Police were called to the Chick-fil-A restaurant for a report of a stabbing.

The project involves the reconstruction of North Main Street from the north railroad right-of-way to Knights Road near Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital in Sandwich.

Lung Cancer Awareness Month is observed in November each year to raise awareness about lung cancer and the importance of early screening.

The village of Oswego has had its current website since the end of 2019. The village is working with Granicus, which has been the village’s website vendor since 2019, on redesigning the website.

Developer JM Development has reduced the number of units from 239 units to 202 units on the 12.34 acre property in Oswego. That includes 172 apartments and 30 townhouses.

The Village Board is set to discuss the issue at its 6 p.m. Nov. 4 Committee of the Whole meeting. Several residents talked about the problem at a recent Village Board meeting.

Earlier this year, village trustees unanimously approved plans for the 12,500-square-foot grocery store. Benderson Development Company, LLC. plans to build a grocery store along with another building.

Oswego School District 308 not coordinating with federal representatives, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Portillo’s restaurant in Oswego has installed bollards and parking stops in front of its main entrance after a 2-year-old boy was killed this summer when a car crashed through the main entrance.

Owned and operated by the village of Oswego, Venue 1012 opened in August 2021. Plans for Venue 1012 started to take shape after local business owner Kevin Fialko donated a three-acre plot of land to the village.

Dist. 308 is offering a series of community meetings as it puts together a master facility plan for the district to address current and future facility needs. The meetings, which started in September, will continue this month.

Portillo’s is in the process of installing protective barriers in front of the restaurant, including bollards. A bollard is a short vertical post used to manage traffic and parking around areas where there are a lot of pedestrians.

Oswego police have been investigating what caused the driver of a 2011 Lincoln MKZ Sedan to crash into the entrance. The vehicle was driven by a 50-year-old woman from Canton, Michigan, who was the only occupant in the vehicle, police said.

A Peru man could face up to a year in jail if convicted of making what police termed “terroristic threats” through Facebook.

A Homer Glen man has been charged with posting a comment on the Facebook page for Lockport Township High School District 205 that claimed there would be a school shooting if the school was not closed.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 content during the pandemic and vowed that the social media giant would push back if it faced such demands again

A deep dive into political ads on Facebook by researchers at Syracuse University has revealed a sprawling web of advertisements that contain misleading information or scams

The Illinois Attorney General's office has charged a Plainfield woman with eight felony counts after she allegedly purchased cars off Facebook Marketplace with fraudulent IDs and checks.

Users of Meta's Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Messenger platforms are experiencing login issues in what appears to be a widespread outage.

On Wednesday, the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, X and other social media companies went before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify as lawmakers and parents grow increasingly concerned about the effects of social media on young people’s lives.

Gov. JB Pritzker joined other local dignitaries in DeKalb Wednesday to celebrate Meta's DeKalb Data Center coming fully online. The campus, which broke ground in 2020 along Gurler Road, will house 2.3 million square feet over five buildings and promises to bring with it a $1 billion investment and more than 200 jobs, the social media parent company announced.

With vocal support from the governor and $25 million from the state, biomedical researchers are beginning to work on studying the fundamentals of human disease at a new facility in Chicago.

Health care industry argues it is exempt from biometric privacy liability while the attorney for two nurses suing their employers said that argument would effect "as much as 10% of the Illinois workforce."

A convicted Joliet sex offender was arrested after he was accused of contacting a 15-year-old girl on Facebook Messenger, police said.

Illinois lawmakers aim to make their state what they say will be the first in the country to create protections for child social media influencers

Amazon has filed a lawsuit against administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups it accuses of coordinating fake reviews in exchange for money or free products

State Rep. Tony McCombie, R-Savanna, will hold traveling office hours from 1 to 3 p.m. July 21 at Journey Well Therapy and Coaching, 408 11th Ave.

Breaking news: Facebook’s parent company, Meta, announced Wednesday it will expand its DeKalb Data Center on the city’s south side by three buildings, bringing with it a community investment that now totals more than $1 billion.