Lee County Board

On April 10, ZBA members unanimously voted to recommend the Lee County Board approve Ironwood Projects’s petition to build a 5-megawatt commercial solar energy facility on property adjacent to 464 Kilgore Road, Dixon.

The Lee County Zoning Board of Appeals is scheduled to make a recommendation Wednesday evening regarding a proposed 5-megawatt commercial solar facility in Palmyra Township.

The Lee County Planning Commission sent an ordinance that would have allowed up to six chickens in unincorporated single-family residential areas of the county back to the Lee County Zoning and Planning Office for revision.

Lee County Board members voted 11-3-3 to issue the special use permit to Hexagon Energy LLC, a Virginia-based company doing business in Illinois as Steward Creek Solar LLC, for Phase 2 of a 1,200-megawatt commercial solar energy facility in Alto and Willow Creek townships.

Here are unofficial results for the 2024 March primary for the Lee County Board, Ogle County coroner and Illinois Senate District 37.

A Rock Falls man with a long history of battery convictions, now accused of beating a 46-year-old man so badly that he fractured his skull and caused a brain bleed, turned himself in to the sheriff’s department on a Whiteside County warrant for aggravated battery.

Lee County Zoning Board of Appeals members unanimously voted to recommend the Lee County Board approve Hexagon Energy LLC’s petition to be allowed to build Phase 2 of Steward Creek, a 1,200-megawatt commercial solar energy facility.

The Administrative Office of Illinois Courts granted the county $1,016,623 in funds from the 2024 Illinois Court Technology Modernization Program, according to a Feb. 29 news release from Lee County State’s Attorney Charles Boonstra.

Lee County Engineer David Anderson can continue in the position for another six years, Lee County Board members decided Feb. 22.

Lee County Board members unanimously declared the county a “nonsanctuary county” at the board’s Feb. 22 meeting, backing a local resolution to not use taxpayer money for what they called the “immigration crisis.”

The Lee County Board is set to consider a resolution declaring the county as a “nonsanctuary county” during its meeting Thursday.

The first of two public hearings before the Lee County Zoning Board of Appeals regarding what could be the largest solar facility in Illinois is set for 6 p.m. Feb. 20.

Here is a list of property transfers for Whiteside, Lee and Ogle counties filed Jan.12-19

Developers for what could be the largest solar facility in Illinois are set to come before the Lee County Zoning Board of Appeals in February regarding the project’s second phase.

Visit Culver’s in Rock Falls or Dixon on Feb. 11 for special $2.11 concrete mixers or cheese curds to celebrate 2-1-1 Day.