Woodstock News

WOODSTOCK – Yellow Post-it notes dotted an overhead photo of Route 47 as Woodstock residents milled about at the Challenger Learning Center on Tuesday.

CRYSTAL LAKE – A 43-year-old Woodstock woman was taken to Centegra Hospital – Woodstock from a crash Friday morning in Crystal Lake.

WOODSTOCK – Police charged two Walworth, Wis., teens today in connection with three Harvard area armed robberies after they allegedly held up a store in Geneva, Wis.

The nation's most famous groundhog Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of winter, but a local groundhog had a different forecast for the Stateline.

Nearly three hundred people gathered in Woodstock, Ill today to learn from Woodstock Willie, the town's annual groundhog prognosticator, if spring was on the way.

Mark Sazfran holds Woodstock Willie near the ear of Woodstock's mayor Brian Sager so that he can hear Willie's weather prediction Tuesday in Woodstock, Illinois.

Share + Feb 2, 2010 11:31 am US/Central WOODSTOCK, Ill. Ask Woodstock Willie, and he'll say Punxsutawney Phil doesn't know what he's talking about.

Many TV viewers will be watching Feb. 2 to see if their local weather forecasts match those of groundhogs in Punxsutawney , Penn., Woodstock , Ill.

Get into the spirit of Groundhog Day just a bit early by attending a free screening of the 1993 film "Groundhog Day" - in the town where the movie was actually filmed.

WOODSTOCK – His discipline, qualification to try capital cases, and the fact that he is well-liked around the office contributed to Philip Hiscock being named the new criminal chief, McHenry County State's Attorney Louis Bianchi said.

WOODSTOCK – A Woodstock arson case appears to be on hold because the defendant did not return to court this week after the judge allowed him to travel to India.

WOODSTOCK – Justin Fasel said he bought car stereo equipment, clothes, shoes and “a lot of weed” with the $8,000 or $9,000 his friend gave him after holding up a Huntley bank.

McHenry County police this month busted an indoor marijuana farm in Woodstock, arresting two men who they say ran the operation and seizing $300,000 in pot.

WOODSTOCK – A 44-year-old Algonquin woman remained in McHenry County Jail on Monday night after allegedly agreeing to perform a sex act on an undercover officer for $100. Jinfu F. Jin was charged Thursday evening with prostitution after an incident at a massage parlor at 4093 W. Algonquin Road, which court documents also list as Jin's ...

CRYSTAL LAKE – A 4-year-old was injured when a minivan collided with the District 47 school bus in which he was riding this afternoon.

WOODSTOCK – A second station in Woodstock is a priority for Metra officials who recently laid out their plans for improvements to the Northwest Line and for Woodstock.

In this image from video, incumbent McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren and challenger Zane Seipler participate in an endorsement interview in the Northwest Herald boardroom December 9, 2009.

Brian C. Lawler, 18, of Woodstock, pleaded guilty to one count of arson stemming from the Feb.

You don't have to go to Punxsutawney , Penn. to see if a groundhog will emerge from its burrow on Groundhog day Feb.

WOODSTOCK – McHenry County government's concerns with a watchdog group's proposed conflicts disclosure ordinance have not stopped County Board candidates from complying with it.