Prairie Grove News

PRAIRIE GROVE – Police closed Route 176 for two and a half hours this afternoon as crews worked to clear an overturned, empty gravel truck and some trees that were blocking the roadway.

PRAIRIE GROVE – Those who border the village of Prairie Grove might be happy to learn that plans for the Route 176 Corridor no longer include their area.

JOHNSBURG – Village officials will discuss a proposal to add a Metra train stop in Johnsburg at a meeting Thursday.

PRAIRIE GROVE – Two people have been released from the hospital after a three-vehicle crash involving a motorcycle Thursday evening.

Further scrutiny deserves to be paid on two locally elected school boards whose actions and lack of openness are being called into question.

The comment from Woodstock City Manager Tim Clifton in Friday's newspaper was as refreshing as the day's warm weather and blue skies.

PRAIRIE GROVE – More than 1,000 Prairie Grove students hit the district's walking path Wednesday to raise money for a school health program.

Kathy McAfee from the Nunda Rural Fire Protection District looks over the site Friday of a fire that broke out Thursday night on Ames Road in Prairie Grove.

Nine people were injured, at least one seriously, Saturday in an accident involving three cars on Route 176 in Prairie Grove.

PRAIRIE GROVE – Police said that alcohol might have played a role in a Saturday crash that left a Chicago woman dead and four others hospitalized with injuries.

Firefighters move the driver of a blue Mazda sedan on a stretcher Saturday after a crash with a gold Chevrolet near Route 176 and Barreville Road in Prairie Grove.

Firefighters move the driver of a blue Mazda sedan on a stretcher Saturday after a crash with a gold Chevrolet near Route 176 and Barreville Road in Prairie Grove.

Xiaojun Tan of Prairie Grove and his daughter, Cheyenne, 6, laugh Saturday night while listening to a story told by Dennis "Swiftdeer" Paige as part of “Stories from the Earth: An Environmental Storytelling Concert” at Prairieview Education Center in Crystal Lake.

April 7 won't be “big” in political razzle-dazzle terms. It's not like we're on the cusp of putting into the White House the nation's first black president or female vice president.

I moved to Prairie Grove with my husband and children two years ago. We first started donating to Turning Point, the battered women's shelter of McHenry County, when I decided to find a local pantry to donate ...

CRYSTAL LAKE – Community leaders were brimming with buoyancy for 2009 at the annual State of the Community luncheon Thursday despite a global recession and continuing economic uncertainties.

When Johnsburg residents vote in April, they won't be asked whether they support using a special service area to fund a $10 million sewer project.

Take a deep breath outside today. The cold snap is over. Area temperatures of about minus 23 were reported in the early morning hours Friday before hovering around zero.

Below is a list of schools that have closed today due to the cold: • Nippersink District 2 • Johnsburg District 12 and St.

To the Editor: The “big-picture” thinking of Prairie Grove calls for development of the riverfront and Route 176.