Walking along the trail on the west side of the Fox River south of Illinois Street in St. Charles used to be a messy affair. You'd have to watch your step when heading north from Mount St. Mary Park past the Brownstone townhouses because the path wa...

Exhumation of a McHenry County gravesite this week only deepened a 60-year-old mystery: Who was the young Black boy found in the Fox River on April 24, 1963? County Coroner Michael Rein confirmed a judge approved the exhumation of a grave at Ostend ...

A river reflecting blue sky and fluffy clouds snakes through Carpentersville, as seen from about 200 feet in the air. The skies just above Carpenter Dam on the Fox River were filled with gulls, ducks, Canada geese and, in this case, one of the Daily...

Engineers may soon start developing plans to remove a dam in downtown Batavia, as the city council settled on an option Monday night. In an 8-4 vote, the council picked Concept B, which would remove the crumbling 112-year-old concrete lowhead dam, p...

It seems odd to call them the “Wiffle ball kids.” Yet, that's how I tend to refer to them. They're all successful grown adults in their 50s, but they will always be the kids from the Fourth Street neighborhood of St. Charles who battled a team from ...

By Luke Zurawski lzurawski@dailyherald.com Starts before Friday Rotary Fest: 6-10:30 p.m. (carnival only) Wednesday, July 19; 6-10:30 p.m. Thursday, July 20; 6 p.m. to midnight Friday, July 21; 2 p.m. to midnight Saturday, July 22; and 2-9 p.m. (car...

A fisherman near the North Aurora dam is surrounded by patterns in the water as the Fox River spills over the dam. The Fox River, which starts in southern Wisconsin, flows through more than 100 miles in Illinois before merging with the Illinois Rive...

Starts before Friday Lake in the Hills Rockin' Rotary Ribfest: 4:30-11 p.m. Thursday and Friday, July 6-7; 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, July 8; and 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday, July 9, at Sunset Park, 5200 Miller Road, Lake in the Hills. Ann...