COUNTY’S GROWTH WOES TAKING A BACK SEAT IN TUESDAY’S ELECTIONS
It's the biggest issue of the 1990s in McHenry County: What to do about the rapid, seemingly uncontrolled growth that has turned this rural farm and resort region into the...
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DEMOCRATS’ CHAIRMAN SUPPORTS GOP’S HUGHES OVER KAPPEL
Calling his party's candidate an "embarrassment," McHenry County Democratic Party Chairman Frank McClatchey on Monday endorsed Republican state Rep. Ann Hughes (R-Woodstock) over James Kappel. The move was unprecedented in...
ANTI-TOWNSHIP VOTE NOW DEFINITELY OFF
Bob Anderson's campaign to get a referendum proposal to abolish McHenry Township on the Nov. 5 ballot has finally hit a dead end, Anderson's lawyer conceded Monday. The Illinois Appellate...
FOX RIVER GROVE RELIVES DAY OF TRAGEDY
In a somber and tearful public gathering, about 150 students and parents marked the first anniversary of the Fox River Grove fatal train-bus crash by returning to the site early...
IDOT FACES NEW LAWSUITS OVER 1995 BUS-TRAIN CRASH
With the anniversary of last year's bus-train crash in Fox River Grove coming Friday--as well as the deadline for filing notice of lawsuits related to it--the Illinois Department of Transportation...
SPARE THE ROD, JUST EXPEL THE CHILD
Once, expulsion was the punishment of last resort, a principal's ultimate penalty for a student who was unable or unwilling to comply with school rules. A student deserving of expulsion,...
CONGRESS MUFFLES TRAIN-WHISTLE REQUIREMENT
Train whistles might have been blowing night and day around the Chicago area but for a brief amendment approved by Congress on Thursday, along with a law reauthorizing the Federal...
TRUCKER IN CRASH IS CLEARED OF CHARGE
A Berrien County, Mich., jury cleared a Crystal Lake trucker of negligent homicide Wednesday, more than a year after his rig slammed into a car and ignited a fiery chain-reaction...
G.I. JOE FANS TAKE ACTION TO GET FIGURES
Even 32 years after he first went into service, this soldier still knows how to command attention. Colin Powell he's not, but G.I. Joe still drew about 100 people to...
WEST CHICAGO WOMAN DIES IN 3-VEHICLE CRASH
A West Chicago woman was killed in a three-car weekend crash in unincorporated DuPage County near Carol Stream. Jamie Lara, 20, of 700 W. Forest Ave., was riding in a...