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A 29-year-old Zion man has been charged with attempted murder and other weapons violations in connection with a Sunday afternoon shooting incident that left the intersection of Route 31 and Bull Valley Road in McHenry closed for about three hours, according to a city news release.

Wearing masks will be optional for students and staff at McHenry Elementary School District 15 to start the school year, regardless of COVID-19 vaccination status. The announcement by Superintendent Josh Reitz at a Wednesday school board meeting was met with applause by the dozens in the audience.

A 160-acre former Boy Scouts camp northwest of Woodstock was sold to a McHenry County foundation, just as the national youth organization faces bankruptcy and works to meet obligations in its $850 million legal settlement of sexual abuse claims.

Boating on the Chain O’ Lakes over Independence Day weekend was a popular activity -- and a pretty safe one, with the Lake County sheriff’s office responding to only two crashes even as large crowds took to the waters, local officials said.

For the past two weeks, pews in McHenry County churches have been filling up on Sundays more than they had in months amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Part of the reason is at the start of July, the Catholic Diocese of Rockford ended a temporary suspension of the obligation to attend Sunday Mass, which ha…

Leif Anderson, who took over what is now a 102-year-old family business in Anderson’s Candy Shop in Barrington and Richmond in the early 1980s and oversaw its surge to national renown, died late last month. He was 71.

Downtown Woodstock’s historic square will host a film crew later this month from a new Amazon Prime series called “Lightyears” starring J.K. Simmons and Sissy Spacek. Last week, crews for the show were in Island Lake and Wauconda.

A Canadian company called Green Data Center Real Estate is attempting to purchase the sprawling former Motorola campus in Harvard and convert at least part of it into a solar-powered data warehouse.

McHenry County sheriff’s office and federal law enforcement authorities arrested a 26-year-old Chicago man Monday on felony allegations connected to the Feb. 24 shooting and robbery at a Marengo Circle K convenience store that left an employee with injuries that were not life-threatening.

Grinders Ale House in McHenry is among several McHenry County businesses that encountered difficulty hiring as the COVID-19 outbreak slows with safe and effective vaccines more widely available and as public health officials loosen public health restrictions.

For decades, those closest to Danielle Aylward, McHenry Township’s clerk, have known she was transgender. Late last week, Aylward, who is in the process of transitioning from a male to a female and prefers the pronouns she and her, made everyone else aware of how she has long identified to her famil…

Appellate court: McHenry County clerk erred by removing township abolition measure from ballot  Chicago Daily Herald

Gary Lang, the owner of a McHenry car dealership, insisted Sunday a message that said criminals and new strains of COVID-19 are coming over the border that he displayed on his business’ digital marquee last week was not racist, while also saying he was sorry many community members took it that way.

Boat dealers in and near Lake and McHenry counties had a huge year in 2020 as people refrained from traveling and flocked to outdoor activities as the COVID-19 pandemic limited entertainment options.

Woodstock High School’s new industrial technology teacher Austen Luedtke wants his students to know they may not need to go to college right after high school to have a chance of working on a project taken to space by NASA. Before Luedtke came to Woodstock High School, he worked for Spring Grove-bas…

Woodstock Willie did not see his shadow when brought out of his shelter, reluctantly staying put in front of a crowd of hundreds on the Historic Woodstock Square at 7:07 a.m. Tuesday, prognosticating an early spring, Woodstock Mayor Brian Sager announced to attendees.

Many parents and students in both Crystal Lake Elementary School District 47 and Algonquin-based Community Community Unit District 300 rejoiced Monday as classrooms again filled, with social distancing in place, for the first time in months.