Harvard News

Rock River Bank already had plans to be closed Friday and Saturday for the Fourth of July holiday.

Three Illinois banks were shuttered today. Regulators shut John Warner Bank of Clinton, Ill.; First State Bank of Winchester in Winchester, Ill.; and Rock River Bank of Oregon, Ill.

Ahead of the July 4 holiday weekend, several local police departments are teaming up with the Illinois State Police on Friday for a traffic enforcement blitz along Route 14.

CRYSTAL LAKE – Trustee Scott Summers resigned from the McHenry County College Board a day after approving a contract with the institution's new interim president.

While headlining the traditional brunch at Harvard Milk Days on June 6, WGN farm director Orion Samuelson noted the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth and dramatized Lincoln's contribution to the farming community with a litany of Lincoln-inspired accomplishments.

" What Makes Us Happy? " It's an eternal mystery, and the title of a fascinating article by Joshua Wolf Shenk in the June Atlantic .

Most horses look the part, of course. But not these. The stable of fiberglass, carousel horses grazing along the streets of Woodstock are part of a fundraiser for Main Stay Therapeutic Riding Program in Richmond.

The city's downtown did its best supermodel impression, as it posed all afternoon for a commercial to promote the popular fashion show, "Project Runway." Representatives for the Lifetime cable network were in Waukegan on Wednesday to use the downtown as a backdrop, and residents as actors, for a commercial to hype the sixth season of "Project ...

My position on the front line of the 68th annual Harvard Milk Days last weekend was pleasant and an opportunity to see many friends at the brunch and along the parade route.

HARVARD – Police are looking for two men who robbed Brady's Jewelers at gunpoint Thursday afternoon.

A Grayslake man remained in critical condition Wednesday night following a crash involving two semitrailers in Harvard earlier in the day.

Power has been restored at most of the Harvard area homes that experienced storm outages this morning, according to ComEd.

HARVARD – Christine Brooks knew the weather forecast for Saturday: rain. But it would take more than drizzles to keep her and her daughter, Jessica, from enjoying Harvard Milk Days.

Jaycees Cary Days will take place June 18 through 21 in Lions Park. An area that celebrates both milk and Mozart? Yeah, you can definitely call that “unique.” That's how Cort Carlson describes the summer of festivals in McHenry County.

'The greater part of the public, and a greater part even of the intelligent and alert public, is simply non-intellectual,' declared Richard Hofstadter in his bluntly titled Anti-intellectualism in American Life in 1963.

Our top picks for what to do in McHenry County, the region and Chicago 1. COLIN MOCHRIE & BRAD SHERWOOD WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Genesee Theatre, 203 N. Genesee St., Waukegan INFO: Former stars of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” will present an evening of improv comedy.

WOODSTOCK – Municipal attorney Carlos Arevalo was pleased that the nation's first African-American president nominated the potentially first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court justice Tuesday.

WOODSTOCK – A 41-year-old Woodstock man is serving an eight-year prison term after being convicted of his ninth DUI.

A 68-year McHenry County tradition will come to a climax June 6 with the annual Harvard Milk Days parade and related events at Milky Way Park.

Two composites have been created of the man accused of impersonating an officer.