Unlike the downtown-centric TIF 1, TIF2 stretches east to Route 47, south to Lake Avenue, and east toward Walmart.
D-200 reports new COVID-19 cases each week on website
In-school attendance jumped to more than 70 percent last week when Woodstock School District 200 began full-time classroom instruction for the first time this academic year. Full school days had […]
At its meeting last week, the Woodstock City Council took care of business – several businesses, in fact. As a result, Woodstock could get a new grocery store, additional liquor […]
Metra officials have ‘long range’ plans for Woodstock development
Before we put McHenry County’s 2021 consolidated election in the books, let’s remember the 2020 election still isn’t over. That’s right. Republican candidate Jim Oberweis still hasn’t conceded the 14th […]
Voting “anomalies” with paper ballots in the April 6 consolidated election in McHenry County meant that even unofficial results were not available until three days later. Shortly before 1 p.m. […]
One of Woodstock’s biggest private employers officially has a new owner – and a new name. SK Capital Partners LP, a private New York investment firm, announced last week it […]
After years of financial struggle, referendum money to the rescue
Woodstock’s recently remodeled Metra depot will get a ribbon-cutting this week and, possibly, a new tenant in the near future – a butcher shop with a deli. The rehabilitation of […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
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Within the next month, Barrington resident Doug McConnell will attempt to accomplish something that only 47 people older…
Woodstock resident Bob Will is like many of us. He worked hard all his life, raised a beautiful…
