Hands Around the Courthouse – a child abuse awareness event – is set for a noon start April 10 on the Old Lee County Courthouse Lawn in Dixon.

Leah Mulder of Sterling was recently elected to membership into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society, at Bradley University.

AI is a branch of computer science that enables machines to simulate human intelligence, to include reasoning, problem-solving and creativity.

Winter weather has delayed plans to have the new Sterling Public Schools student rec center facility open in time for winter 2026 sports practices.

Here is a list of Lee, Whiteside and Ogle property transfers for March 16-20, 2026.

Dixon's Abram Garcia, Keegan Shirley, Averick Wiseman and Dean Geiger won the 4x4800 relay at the Illinois Top Times meet. Dixon and Sterling softball won, and Oregon baseball won 11-10 in Saturday's Sauk Valley roundup.

A couple of hundred people gathered on the lawn outside the Old Lee County Courthouse in Dixon on Saturday, a day in which millions of people took to the streets nationwide for No Kings protests

A Chicago developer made his pitch Wednesday to turn the former Magnuson Hotel near Dixon into apartments during a hearing in front of Lee County’s zoning officer but faced opposition from nearby residents.

Upper Iowa University is pleased to announce the dean’s list for the fall 2025 semester.

The defense attorney for a Chicago woman accused of falsely reporting a shooting in Ogle County during a rodeo near Rochelle last year argued Tuesday that the charges were filed in retaliation over controversy about such events and should be dismissed.