Winnebago County Calendar of Events
August 29, 2017THROUGH SEPT. 4 Hello from Japan Discovery Center Museum 711 N. Main St., Rockford 10 a.m., $8 per person, free for members and children age one and under Children will have fun learning…
THROUGH SEPT. 4 Hello from Japan Discovery Center Museum 711 N. Main St., Rockford 10 a.m., $8 per person, free for members and children age one and under Children will have fun learning…
August 31 Summer Concert Series 7 p.m. Veterans Memorial Park, 3400 Pearl St., McHenry Free Enjoy a performance by the Saturday June Band in this session of the 2017 Summer Concert…
Aug. 24 DeKalb Farmers Market 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Van Buer Plaza, corner of north Second and Locust streets, DeKalb Free The DeKalb Farmers Market features more than 30 vendors offering…
“Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him,” wrote the American writer Annie Dillard in her 1982 essay, “Total…
AUG. 31-SEPT. 2 ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’ 7:30 p.m. each night Corn Stock Theatre, 1700 N. Park Rd., Peoria $22; $18 for students 18 and under ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’…
AUG. 31 Central Illinois Human Resources Conference Thursday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. DoubleTree Hotel & Conference Center, 10 Brickyard Dr., Bloomington $50-$75 Full-day conference…
When moving to a new community, a prime consideration for a family is often the location and quality of schools. But for Sukhvinder Singh, his wife, Pradeep Kaur, and daughters Divgot…
THROUGH SEPT. 23 American Buffalo Riverfront Playhouse 11-13 Water Street Mall, Aurora Fridays and Saturdays 8 p.m. In a Chicago junk shop, three small-time crooks plot to rob…
SPRINGFIELD — A year after Illinois became the first state in the nation to eliminate the use of cash bail, the impact on the state’s criminal justice system appears to be far less…
Follow these tips to help keep you and farmers safe throughout the harvest season and again in spring when planting starts. Most importantly, slow down and be patient. Slow down…
Two thieves created a scam they managed to keep going for more than a decade before finally being caught. Keeping it going that long doesn’t make them smart; it makes them long-term…
Medical marijuana patients can purchase cannabis grown by small businesses as part of their allotment, Illinois’ top cannabis regulator said, but smaller, newly licensed cannabis…
An Illinois law intended to help people with mental illness avoid confrontations with police had been on the books for three years when Sonya Massey was shot in Sangamon County. The…
SPRINGFIELD – Overall participation in labor unions has declined in recent years in Illinois, although the state has seen an increase in successful unionization efforts for the second…