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Joe Bongiovanni works behind the bar as he enjoys pizza during a Christmas party at The Other Side, a substance-free bar for recovering addicts, on Dec. 22, 2018, in Crystal Lake, Ill.

For those in drug addiction recovery, the holidays bring chances to reconnect but also challenges

December 29, 2018 at 7:09 p.m.

This Christmas, Anthony Martynowicz said he was giving himself the gift of sobriety. For his family, he offered honesty, quality time and atonement for years of hard drug use, lies...

Chicago Dem operatives tied to McHenry County chairman behind ‘Crooked Joe’ flyers, printer says under threat of jail

December 22, 2018 at 6:37 p.m.

Facing a choice between going to jail or revealing who was behind the “Crooked Joe” campaign flyers that his company printed, a Chicago businessman revealed in court Friday that two...

Names behind ‘Crooked Joe’ political flyers in McHenry County still not revealed; court hearing set for Friday

December 19, 2018 at 5:20 p.m.

An attorney for newly elected McHenry County Clerk Joe Tirio is asking for jail time for two people who have refused a court order to disclose who is behind “defamatory”...

3 young men killed in crash near Woodstock are identified by McHenry County coroner

May 23, 2019 at 1:35 a.m.

The McHenry County coroner Monday morning identified the three young men who were killed when an SUV they were riding in hit a tree early Sunday in an unincorporated area...

Despite his parents’ pleas, former heroin user who supplied fatal dose to friend is sent to prison

May 23, 2019 at 1:34 a.m.

Sobs filled a packed McHenry County courtroom Thursday as relatives and supporters of John Galloway pleaded for the former heroin addict to receive probation for supplying the drugs on which...

Who was behind ‘Crooked Joe’ election flyers? Judge orders unmasking of person who funded smear campaign

December 17, 2018 at 8:16 a.m.

One flyer depicts Joe Tirio in a bandit-style black mask and gloves, claiming he “hired cronies from a slush fund” and took a taxpayer-funded vacation. Another accuses him of “destroying...

Man pleads guilty to supplying heroin that led to gas station bathroom overdose death

December 11, 2018 at 6:31 p.m.

A defendant who was charged with homicide in connection with the heroin overdose death of a man found in a gas station bathroom has pleaded guilty to a lesser offense....

Elizabeth Smart, shown in September 2018, told her audience in Crystal Lake on Dec. 7, 2018, that her family's support helped her through the trauma her 2002 abduction.

At speech in Crystal Lake, kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart advises not to let negative experiences define who you are

May 11, 2019 at 12:59 a.m.

Elizabeth Smart spoke Friday with eloquence and sometimes a dash of humor about being a painfully shy 14-year-old girl in 2002, about to graduate middle school, tucked into bed in...

Man accused of biting northwest suburban cop’s leg in attempt to transmit HIV virus

December 12, 2018 at 2:19 a.m.

A McHenry County man is accused of biting a police officer in an attempt to transmit the HIV virus. Christopher Seerden, 37, is also accused of spitting on and attempting...

Husband sentenced to 50 years in prison — again — for killing man who paid to have sex with his wife

December 12, 2018 at 1:58 a.m.

Timothy Smith was granted a do-over after he was initially found guilty of killing a man who’d paid to have sex with Smith’s wife. But Smith’s second trial in McHenry...

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