
Plea deal offered in sex crimes
Trial to be scheduled if no deal by Oct. 15



Members of the Woodstock Fire/ Rescue District invite the community to join them this weekend in an annual nationwide bell-ringing ceremony on the Square to honor fallen firefighters. The local […]

When Woodstock School District 200 asked the public for comments on the district’s plan to spend nearly $100 million this school year, nobody showed up. The Board of Education last […]


No need for you to attend the Woodstock City Council meeting tonight if you were expecting discussion and action on the proposed Founder’s Crossing housing development. The item has been […]

A Wonder Lake man was among three people arrested in Woodstock during a human trafficking sting on a charge of solicitation of a sex act, according to a news release […]

A 43-year-old Harvard man was killed in a motorcycle crash near Wonder Lake Wednesday evening, the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning. Investigators said the victim, identified as Jesse […]

Plans have changed for that retail/residential building proposed for the northwest corner of Madison and Church streets. In fact, the project evolved into a residential/storage building with no commercial element. […]

Woodstock has a new objective limit on noise for police to enforce, and come January the city will have a 10-cents-a-bag tax on single-use bags to get local retail customers […]
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