Author: Fox Valley Magazine

(Stock photo provided by Kane County Sheriff’s Office.) A DeKalb man is in custody after leading police on a late-night, multi-county car chase down I-88 early Friday morning. On Thursday evening at 8:46 PM, the DeKalb Police Department was notified about a male, later identified as 34-year-old Deaundre Brooks of DeKalb, who had been dropped off at Northwestern Medicine-Kishwaukee Hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. Due to the life-threatening nature of his injuries, he was airlifted to a Rockford hospital where he subsequently died while receiving medical treatment. The investigation by DeKalb police quickly led to the identification…

Highlighting the ongoing dedication of his investigative teams, Kane County Sheriff Ron Hain recently shared statistics with Kane County Board members, drawing attention to the significant amount of cash, drug, weapon and vehicle seizures in 2022, including an increase in the quantity of fentanyl confiscated. “This is a snapshot of the great work that our drug team does,” said Sheriff Hain. “Getting 32 kilograms of fentanyl off our streets is just outstanding.” In total, the Special Investigations Unit of the Kane County Sheriff’s Office reported the following statistics: The plane was seized in collboration with other agencies after arriving with…

Gracious. Kane County Sheriff Ron Hain makes no bones about his disdain for the controversial “assault rifle” ban recently enacted by the Democratic-dominated state legislature and enthusiastically signed into law by Democratic Governor JB Pritzker. In a recent meeting with the Kane County Board’s legislative committee, Hain, himself a Democrat, held forth publicly about his frustration at the lack of law enforcement involvement in the crafting of the legislation, as well as his belief that the ban is “unconstitutional.” “Please remember, I’m an elected Democrat,” Hain said, as quoted in the Daily Herald. “I’m pro-no cash bail. If they want…

Welcome to our latest edition of Fox Valley Magazine’s 4 FOR THE WEEKEND where March Madness triggers the hell out of us. So let’s get to it, starting with….. Is “The Sap Is Rising” Sexist? For all the wokesters out there, is the phrase “the sap is rising” considered a sexist phrase? Seriously, it’s impossible to know these days. That phrase used to be an innocent reference to the coming of spring, of romance, of rebirth. But having been marinated in trigger warnings and the indecipherable language of the woke, we’re simply not sure. If so, we apologize. But wedding…

The Geneva Wedding Walk takes place on February 26 from 11am-3pm in Geneva. The Geneva Wedding Walk features an amazing selection of wedding professionals ready to help you find the perfect gown, reception venue, photographer, music, honeymoon destination, and much more. Complimentary swag bag, for brides (first 250 to register), included with registration.  $30 for brides (includes one guest); $5 each additional person.  Plus prizes & giveaways. Register at genevachamber.com, look for the link on the home page.  Let Geneva be the start of your happily ever after. Questions, please visit genevachamber.com or call 630-232-6060.

The identity and cause of death of a woman found dead next to a vehicle in Oswego Saturday morning has been determined by the Kendall County Coroner. On Saturday at approximately 9:00 am, the Office of the Kendall County Coroner was notified of a female subject who was found unresponsive next to a vehicle on the 100-Block of Presidential Boulevard in Oswego, Illinois Annissa Ellen-Williams, a 25-year-old female of the 100-Block of Presidential Boulevard in Oswego, was pronounced deceased on the scene. The next day, a forensic autopsy was performed which preliminarily indicated that the subject had suffered a gunshot…

Grammy Award-winning musician Ralph Covert and his band The Bad Examples have been a staple of the Chicago scene since their heyday in the early ’90’s, when their song Not Dead Yet was burning up the airwaves on Chicago’s WXRT and on radio stations from coast to coast in America and as well as in Holland. Ralph has toured from LA to New York to Amsterdam, and played shows with bands including Los Lobos, Squeeze, Del Amitri, Steppenwolf, Wilco, The Lemonheads, Golden Earring, and BB King. With his family music project Ralph’s World, he has received a GRAMMY nomination, been…

Come enjoy over 30 different vendors each week at the Batavia Indoor Farmers Market, which runs from November through May. Enjoy an assortment of fresh greens, meats, eggs, soaps, baked goods, coffee and tea, and more. This year’s Indoor Market will be located at The Dock at 150 First Street. Batavia Indoors Farmers’ Market150 First StreetEvery Saturday through May9 a.m. – Noon

Dr. Ron McCurdy will narrate Langston Hughes’s epic jazz poem suite “Ask Your Mama” this Saturday at Wentz Hall in Naperville at 8PM. Tickets are $40 and $35 dollars. The Langston Hughes Project is a multimedia concert performance of Langston Hughes’s kaleidoscopic jazz poem suite, “Ask Your Mama” – Hughes’s homage in verse and music to the struggle for artistic and social freedom at home and abroad at the beginning of the 1960s. “Ask Your Mama” is a twelve-part epic poem which Hughes scored with musical cues drawn from blues and Dixieland, gospel songs, boogie woogie, bebop and progressive jazz,…

The massive winter storm that passed through Northern Illinois on Thursday resulted in power outages that very well might last until Saturday for some residents. At one point, approximately 98,000 customers had lost power as a result of the storm, with the Fox Valley area comprising roughly 13,000 of the total. ComEd stated on its website that it expects to get roughly 80% of its customers up and running on Thursday, but that the some of the remaining 20% may be without power until Saturday. A review of social media in the Fox Valley indicates that significant outages remain as…