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At some point in our lives, we all have a "yolo" moment. Mine happened to be at an Illinois tattoo shop with a complete stranger.

Not too far from downtown Marengo, Illinois is a farmhouse that is deserving of bragging rights because their home is lit, literally.

SecurityBaron.com recently released a study determining the 164 safest cities in Illinois, and it shows the Rockford area needs to keep improving.

The fiery explosion Sunday morning that hurt two people and damaged more than 50 homes "could have been so much worse" according to fire officials and witnesses.

  The Marengo City Council has agreed to move forward with a proposal for developing a quarry. The Northwest Herald reports it happened after the developer assured the Marengo City Council this week that the operation would be safe and out of sight: Prairie Material Aggregate owns the quarry to the south of where Super Aggregates wants to build a quarry, City Administrator Gary Boden said Tuesday,

MARENGO, Ill. (AP) — A fire museum in northern Illinois that includes equipment used in the Great Chicago Fire needs to move to a new location in the next year. Tom McDermott is board secretary of the Northern Illinois Fire Museum in Marengo...