Tuesday’s vaccine clinic at Willow Creek Community Church in Crystal Lake has been canceled after the Illinois Department of Health issued a notice that requires a pause on the use […]
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. […]
Route 47 in Woodstock was closed for about two hours Thursday morning after a pickup truck ran into a utility pole. The Woodstock Fire/Rescue District responded at 7:39 a.m. to […]
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 […]
Development of an apartment complex north of the Metra depot is back on the fast track. Plans for Central Station, on the former Die Cast factory site, received a certificate […]
McHenry County has experienced its first case of the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7, known as the U.K. variant, in the county Department of Health announced today. According to a news release, […]
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