Kane County's chief judge has issued a new order restricting protests, demonstrations, noise and interference with ICE arrests at the courthouse.

St. Charles North senior and Penn State signee Lucas Tenbrock, who was an All-State honorable mention kicker/punter in football and an All-State discus thrower in track and field, is the 2025-26 Kane County Chronicle Male Athlete of the Year.

The Kane County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public to avoid the area of an active investigation involving sheriff’s police, the Sugar Grove Police Department and the Lombard Police Department.

The new kids on the block are looking for a new block. The Wahlburgers restaurant location in St. Charles announced in a post it’s closing “effective immediately,” and will be opening in a “new location coming soon.”

When it comes to governmental accounting and financial reporting, the city of St. Charles has been sterling for four straight decades. The city announced it has earned recognition from the Government Finance Officers Association for the 40th consecutive year.

All the Kane County Clerk’s Office locations will be closed on Friday, July 3 in observance of Independence Day on July 4.

The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada honored the city of Geneva's accomplishments with three awards, representing the highest form of achievement for financial reporting and budgeting practices.

A new home decor store, A Rooted Home, recently opened in Batavia.

A small aircraft made an emergency landing in a field in Bartlett.

Kane County will soon have its own wind phone installed at Gunnar Anderson Forest Preserve in Geneva. The project was at the request of Elaine Haughan, whose son James died of sudden cardiac arrest in 2021 at age 18, just three weeks shy of his 19th birthday.