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Here are local race results for the 2024 general election in Kane County, Illinois. Our city is known ... and he's here with us this morning to tell us about the shows. Kane County officials ...

After more than four decades, police in Illinois have cracked a cold case involving the murder of a 19-year-old woman whose body was found in a river weeks after going missing. Kathy Halle left ...

Nearly 50 years after the cold case murder of a 19-year-old who went missing from her Illinois village ... Halle’s body was discovered in the Foxe River, Ryan Peat, a detective with the North ...