Shabbona News

Al Roloff stands on the Cemetery Road bridge where the western tributary of the South Branch of the Kishwaukee begins, north of Shabbona.

By Kate Schott - kschott@daily-chronicle.com Judges at the 2009 OCB Midwest State Bodybuilding and Figure Competition, held Saturday at the Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb, view five of the competitors in the female bodybuilding portion of the event during an early-afternoon judging session.

Sarah Chapman, a senior at Indian Creek High School in Shabbona, is starting her third year of serving on the Student Advisory Council for the Illinois State Board of Education.

Six students in Grundy County have had their essays selected as winners in the “What Charity and Philanthropy Mean to Me” essay contest.

With Alderman Randy Larson opposed, the Morris City Council Monday agreed to pay Ayer's Electric $76,660 to install traffic lights at Liberty and Chapin streets.

The lounge at the Quality Inn, the former Holiday Inn, will reopen as The Pub by Chapin's. At the recommendation of the Judiciary and License Committee, the Morris City Council Monday agreed to increase the number of Class D liquor licenses from 11 to 12 and award the license to Dianne Breslar, doing business as The Pub by Chapin's. She explained ...

Mark G. Thiel, a Marquette University archivist, will detail the lives of notable Native Americans of 19th- and 20th-century Chicago in a talk at 1 p.m. Sunday, November 8, at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, 3001 Central Street, Evanston.

Former Aurora Alderman Bill Cross has decided not to seek the GOP nomination for Congress from the 14th Congressional District.

SHABBONA – A Lockport man was taken to the hospital with hypothermia after falling out of his boat on Shabbona Lake Saturday night, according to the Illinois Conservation Police.

Kaneland Knights soccer weathered a lean week to take two out of three recent contests.

At the University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener State Conference held Sept.

LaSalle celebrates Abe Lincoln Days this weekend at the Illinois and Michigan Canal.

SHABBONA – The Shabbona Village Board on Wednesday unanimously approved annexing 272 acres of land on the village's western end to develop an industrial park.

Public works employees Billy Jim and Billy Price of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation install a valve between the pond and lake in Shabbona Lake State Park near Shabbona, on Wednesday.

You may not have noticed it, but another election campaign season is rapidly approaching.

Listed below are links to the complete stories printed in part in the Week In Review section of this week's MidWeek.

Residents of DeKalb can watch a city council meeting, pay their water bill and download permit and license applications all with a few clicks through the city's Web site.

Kishwaukee Health Foundation recently received a generous donation from the 8th annual Pink Ribbon Golf Outing, an annual breast cancer fundraising event at Indian Oaks County Club in Shabbona.

DeKalb County Sheriff's police have charged a man with burglary and criminal trespassing for two separate incidents involving break-ins at a gas station and a home.

SHABBONA – Village board members heard mixed feelings about land that may be annexed to one day serve as an industrial park.