The holiday season is soon upon us and Kendall County communities are ready to help you get into the spirit. Yorkville is first up this weekend,

The joint project is funded by Yorkville, Oswego and Montgomery, with around $400 million in shared overall costs to extend water infrastructure from Naperville out to their respective cities.

Fifty people joined Open Roads ABATE's November 8 train fun run from Aurora, stopping at three bars for food, drinks, games, and prizes.

As another harvest season ends, Kendall County residents don’t need eagle eyes to tell that things continue to rapidly change around these parts.

Oswego High School football team is headed to the semifinals for the first time since 2003, when it won the 7A state title. The Panthers will host Lockport Township High School at 5 p.m. Nov. 22.

Katie Malm grew up a gymnast and first tried diving as a freshman at Oswego East for fun. Now the senior is a two-time IHSA diving state champion and last weekend broke the state meet record previously held by a former Olympian.

What began as burning leaves on a windy autumn day, ended in a fence and garage catching fire with an estimated $45,000 in damages in Yorkville.

As the 2025-2026 girls basketball season tips off this week, here are previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.

Plano’s Shawn Vazquez set school records for a single game with a 238 and a record for a three-game series with a 634 at Hometown Lanes, plus Plano and Oswego East girls basketball results in Monday's Record Newspapers roundup.

The 5-megawatt farm, named Bristol Ridge 105 Solar Farm, will be located east of Cannonball Trail and north of the BNSF Railroad.

Oswego senior Savannah Millard, who won the Southwest Prairie Conference No. 1 singles title, took second at sectionals and won three matches at the Class 2A state tournament, is the Record Newspapers girls tennis Player of the Year. Read more about her in this Q&A.

Plano Methodist Church and Plano American Legion Auxiliary honored local veterans and their families.

Community Cares and Oswego School District 308 come together to help those in need with a coat drive and a list of food pantries in the area.

“Officers are limited in enforcement due to the limitations of the state law," Oswego Police Chief Jason Bastin told village trustees at a recent Village Board meeting.

The 2025-2026 girls basketball season tips off this week. Here are five players to watch in the Record Newspapers coverage area.

In a statement on the termination of a Joliet police detective, the police chief said the department is "built on accountability and ethical conduct, both on and off duty."

Hands-on experience in fundraising, grantmaking, and community impact provided through the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley's Youth Engagement Program.

Funded by federal highway safety dollars through the Illinois Department of Transportation, the fiscal year 2026 Sustained Traffic Enforcement Program grant will support increased traffic safety enforcement efforts aimed at saving lives and reducing crashes.

Plano Library is collecting items to help people who are experience homelessness. A program at the library helps turn plastic shopping bags into sleeping mats for individuals experiencing homelessness.

The Gas N Wash at the northeast corner of Orchard and Mill roads in Oswego is as much as an eatery as it is a place to get gas and a car wash.

The sale will be from from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 22 and feature a variety of Christmas decorations.

With the holiday shopping season approaching, Oswego-based environmental Diane Osgood, will talk about how consumers can use their purchasing power to reduce waste and support the environment.

The Yorkville School District 115 approved its 2025 tentative tax levy. As housing values continue rising in the area, here's how the proposed 3.86% school levy rate increase will balance out on your property bills.

The Joliet Junior College Board of Trustees voted 6-2 to allow college officials to spend $2.5 million for about 20 acres of land for a new campus in Morris.

Fox Valley United Way looks to supplement its Holiday Assistance families with gift cards of $25 or more to help meet their practical needs this season.

DuPage County plans to shift funds to support food pantries that have become a lifeline for people who depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to buy groceries

The Extension services are sharing publicly available resources to help Illinois families access food and support local donation efforts.

Community Kauffee will take place at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Oswego Public Library, 32 W. Jefferson St., downtown Oswego. Arrive a little early at 8:30 a.m. for coffee, pastries.

In what one resident said was a vote that “will change the community forever,” Yorkville aldermen gave the go-ahead on the controversial project.

The online application goes live on Saturday, November 15, visit cffrv.org to access the scholarship application.

Raw milk is milk that has not been pasteurized, putting very young, older people, and those with underlying health conditions at greatest risk.

The highly anticipated members-only shopping warehouse is already creating a large footprint in the Yorkville community.

Donations will be accepted through Dec. 12 at any Oswego fire station. Additional Toys for Tots drop boxes are located across the Oswego area.

The Yorkville Public Library Youth Services Department has released its November programming schedule.

Deputy Stewart Blouin is currently assigned to community policing and serves as a K-9 handler for Comfort K-9 Snow.

The FarmHers Market is Friday, Nov. 14 & Saturday, Nov. 15 at the Kendall County Fairgrounds in Yorkville.

Shoppers are expected to line-up for the grand opening beginning at 8 a.m. on Nov. 12. The new location is at at 825 E. Veterans Parkway, Yorkville.

The Oswego American Legion Post 675’s annual Veterans Day ceremony was held Tuesday at the Oswego Veterans Memorial Plaza in downtown Oswego.

Let’s take a closer look at what we can do to promote pollinators in our yards that can be done without spending a lot of time or money.

Tytis D. Givan, 19, of Oswego, and Tyrell I. Mays, 18 of Montgomery, are each charged with five felony counts of aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon.

Several businesses and organizations handed out treats to more than 600 children in the community.

Oswego East senior Zach Johnson, who was the first golfer in his school's history to be the Southwest Prairie Conference MVP and first to receive All-State honors, is the Record Newspapers Boys Golfer of the Year. Here is his Q&A with Sports Editor Joshua Welge.

District officials view that as continued progress in academic performance and student success. Commendable is a designation given to a school that has no underperforming student groups, a graduation rate greater than 67 percent and whose performance is not in the top 10 percent.

Sergeant Samuel Stroup was honored by the city of Yorkville for 25 years of honorable service within the Yorkville Police Department.

The Oswego Junior Women's Club hosted a pumpkin smash community composting event at Prairie Point Community Park in Oswego on Nov. 8, 2025.

While a train’s lonesome sound has inspired the musical likes of Johnny Cash, on the north end of Yorkville, residents have long called the blaring horn a nuisance. The city is looking to end that.

The meal is provided by members from the Plano Methodist Church and the Plano American Legion Auxiliary Post #395.

Sandwich senior Sunny Weber, who recently committed to run collegiately at Duke, repeated as IHSA state cross country champion on Saturday – this time in a loaded Class 1A field. Meanwhile Yorkville's Owen Horeni was third in Class 3A.

The village refuse hauler, LRS Recycling, will provide bagged leaf pickup at no charge to residents on their regularly scheduled collection days for two weeks, Nov. 10-21

Plano Methodist Church gathered for a community work day and First Lutheran Church will be holding a food pantry for the community.