Reflections: How tiny Platteville got its own National Guard armory

Hell’s BBQ restaurant in Oswego shutting down in July

The restaurant opened in November 2022. Hell’s BBQ owner Keith Richards founded the restaurant as a catering business in 2014.

228-acre CyrusOne data center agrees to pay Yorkville $15 million up-front, city imposes water use limits

The developers of the CyrusOne data center in Yorkville have agreed to pay the city $15 million up-front on the issuance of the first building permit. The City Council has to approve the agreement.

Kendall County adding more judges and courtrooms to manage growing caseload

There is $8 million budgeted in Kendall County’s public safety capital fund for the project.

Reflections: Nothing defines July in northern Illinois like all those fields of corn

The old saw was that corn should be knee-high by the Fourth of July, but that really hasn’t been the case for well over a century now.

A place to ‘sit and hang out for a while’- Plainfield owners ready to open new Oswego cocktail lounge

Bay 54 is set to open this month in the space at 57 Main St. in downtown Oswego, and will offer a variety of cocktails, including homemade cocktails.