Revisionist history of American slavery tells a “joke” that the benefits for those kidnapped Africans were that they received free passage to the United States and jobs when they arrived. […]

Businesses along Route 47 in Woodstock will be encouraged see the pending rebuilding of the state highway “as an opportunity to grow and reinvest in façades, signage, parking areas, sidewalk […]

We expect 2024 to be an important year in giving Woodstock definition, direction, and momentum. But it won’t be without some pain. We refer particularly to the state’s extensive work […]

As a family-friendly community, we wouldn’t want a visitor to be ticketed for asking someone on the street for the time if standing within three feet of the Woodstock resident. […]

In some ways, the COVID-19 pandemic is still with us. It’s reflected in the reading and math scores of students in the annual statewide school report card, which was released […]

In the fall of 2018, Sol America was trying to convince a skeptical Bull Village Board to approve a solar farm in a corn field across from a housing addition […]

If you were to calculate the number of volunteer hours that Woodstock residents contribute in a year, the number would be staggering. Part of that is a result of the […]

Accessibility. Newspaper writers who work in a world of one- and two-syllable words try to avoid those with six syllables. But “accessibility” seems just right to explain what McHenry County […]

Any day now, The Independent expects the latest notification from the McHenry County Substance Abuse Coalition that warns about multiple overdose deaths that have occurred recently. Those are in addition […]