Here's a list of Lee, Whiteside and Ogle counties’ property transfers for March 23-27, 2026.

Dixon baseball improved to 5-0 after a 9-7 win at Rock Island in extra innings. Fulton softball won twice, Sterling boys track and field took second in Geneseo, Sterling's Kaelee Varden won the high jump in Moline and more in Friday's Sauk Valley roundup.

Morrison City Hall will be closed intermittently through July 2026 to accommodate staff training and the implementation of a new computer system, according to a city news release.

Storm damage assessments have preliminarily confirmed an EF-1 tornado caused damage in northwestern Lee County on Thursday night, according to the National Weather Service.

Storm damage assessments have preliminarily confirmed an EF-1 tornado caused damage in northwestern Lee County on Thursday night, according to the National Weather Service.

Investigator's report indicates Justin Wiggins of Dixon was a student pilot on an instructional flight at the time of the crash, which happened shortly after 3 p.m. March 20 in the area of Thome and McNeil roads near Rock Falls.

Disney’s “Newsies” takes center stage at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. April 18 and at 2 p.m. April 19 as Chadwick-Milledgeville School District’s spring theater department production.

Illinois Wesleyan University’s dean’s list for the fall semester of the 2025-26 academic year consisted of 885 students from 31 states and 23 countries.

A Lee County judge set an April 15 hearing for Plano man facing several drug and domestic battery charges in Lee and Dupage counties.

A Sterling man has been charged in Whiteside County with possessing child sexual abuse material.