Eight Elgin firefighters are listed on a wall at Elgin Fire Barn No. 5 Museum that honors those who died of injuries suffered on duty. Two had heart attacks; one injured a leg and died of the resulting infection; one died of a concussion; one was cr...

A beautiful spring day after a brutal, long winter. An enticing river, beckoning the adventurous to discover all it has to offer. But that kind of bucolic scene all along the Fox River, through communities from McHenry to Yorkville, masks a danger f...

1. A kayaking trip on the Fox River turned deadly for a 26-year-old Bloomington man when his kayak plunged over a dam in Geneva. One of the bystanders who helped save the second kayaker says "it was clear they were struggling." 2. Let's just say th...

The Kane County coroner's office said Monday a Bloomington man drowned in the Fox River in Geneva Saturday afternoon. Dinesh Sudhakar-Uckoo, 26, was pronounced dead after his body was recovered from the base of a dam early Saturday evening. He was o...

Sunday's drowning of a man on the Fox River was the second death on the river this year. An especially tragic year was 2006, during which seven people drowned in five separate water accidents. Here's a look at the drownings covered by the Daily Hera...

Mark Stankus and his wife, Karen, were taking advantage of a beautiful Saturday afternoon with a bike ride along the Fox River when they stopped to sit on a bench by a low-head dam in Geneva. “It was just a nice day out,” the West Chicago resident s...

One man was killed and another man was injured Saturday after kayaking near a dam on the Fox River in Geneva, authorities said. Bystanders saw the men lose control of a two-person kayak shortly after launching it into the river about 4:30 p.m., Gene...

An appellate court panel upheld a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit filed by the family of a Naperville man who drowned saving his girlfriend's 12-year-old son from the Geneva dam along the Fox River in August 2011. Relatives of Randy Suchy, 59, ...

The iconic Mill Race Inn in Geneva has been bought by real estate developer Shodeen Inc. The Geneva-based firm announced the purchase Tuesday afternoon. According to a news release, Shodeen has not determined future use of the land. “Regardless of t...

The outlook of officials who deal with flooding in Lake County has improved markedly the past week as the heavy snow cover gradually has all but disappeared. Rain and frozen ground would create issues in the weeks ahead, but the forecast the next we...