Freeport News

Bill Handel of the Illinois Natural History Survey will present a lecture Thursday, Feb.

Josh Stroud, 32, is plant manager at Dana Holding Corp., a drive shaft assembly company in Sterling.

Tom Knox, an Amtrak worker for the last six years, helps Yessenia Olivas, a sophomore from Chicago studying public relations, onto the train.

" Highland Community College's Wind Turbine Technician students are using high performance hydraulic pumps, wrenches and tools thanks to a $21,000 donation from SPX Hydraulic Technologies.

Local U.S. Congressman Don Manzullo and Freeport Mayor George Gaulrapp tell us what they think on President Obama's State of the Union address.

Two Stateline Mayors are in Washington taking part in one of the nation's largest meetings.

FREEPORT – The Aspiring Artists Student Exhibition: Earth 3000 will be open Saturday through March 20 at Freeport Art Museum, 121 N. Harlem Ave.

Cindy Dollarhide lives alone with her cat, but thanks to a group of local volunteers she's not lonely.

The county's sheriff's department was recently forced to lay off more than 20 law enforcement officials, including several deputies who patrol Freeport streets.

Cash strapped Stephenson County is preparing to ask voters to fund improvements to public safety.

Freeport, IL, Dec. 23, 2009: The Swift Hospitality Group, Inc. based in Freeport, Illinois has assumed management of the Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express Champaign/Urbana. The 201-room Holiday Inn and the 74-room Holiday Inn Express bring the company's total number of rooms under management to 1,163, which represents 13 lodging properties in ...

Snow and rain storms that have battered much of the country for days have started subsiding, leaving behind concerns about flooding in some areas.

Chicago police are searching for a missing teenager from Freeport, Illinois who has been spotted on Chicago's South Side.

Steve Dorsey, Freeport Board of Education President, Sandie Tresemer and Peter Flynn, Freeport School District Superintendent after Tresemer was recognized by the Illinois State Board of Education.

570 ROCKFORD – A 56-year-old Milledgeville man was convicted Friday in federal court for defrauding a bank of nearly $460,000. After a 13-day trial, a jury found Marvin Peugh guilty of filing a false loan application and four counts of check kiting.

Residents in the Pretzel City with incomes at or below 80-percent of Stephenson County median income, which is nearly 35,000 thousand a year now qualify for a Rehabilitation Program Grant.

When Freeport bar owners first showed up at City Council in March, looking for them to move closing time to 2 a.m. from midnight, we urged a slow, deliberate approach to the change that would involve a great deal of public input.

A fierce winter storm was leaving dangerous ice, heavy snow and vicious winds in its wake as it slogged eastward early Wednesday, threatening to wreak havoc on morning commuters across the Upper Midwest before crawling into New England.

Mayor George Gaulrapp accepted a law enforcement award for the Pretzel City this morning.

According to court documents, a father & son team accused of robbing a Dubuque tavern last week threatened to kill the female bartender.