STREATOR – A search that lasted 8 hours has ended with two in custody. The LaSalle County Sheriff’s Office say they began looking for two individuals after they fled a traffic stop around 1:30 AM Monday. The search north of Kangley brought multiple agencies to the area using drones, ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The latest county unemployment numbers have been released by the state, and they show job growth throughout North Central Illinois in August. LaSalle County is over 9%, from a high rate in May of 18.4% unemployment. Bureau County is lower, at 7.1%. Woodford and ...Read more
YORKVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A jury trial is expected to start early next year for a $1.8 million breach-of-conduct case filed against former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert. The lawsuit was filed in 2016 by a man who alleges he was sexually abused as a young teen by Hastert and later promised $3.5 ...Read more
ROCK FALLS – A rare sighting of an Armadillo in northern Illinois happened in Rock Falls Saturday night. The Rock Falls Police Department said it was one of the strangest animal related service calls they could remember. The Armadillo was spotted near the Rock River, and after ...Read more
MARSEILLES – J.B. Pritzker attended a ceremony to honor the National Guard and Illinois’ Gold Star families in Marseilles. The event, held at the Middle East Conflicts Wall on Sunday, honored families of servicemen and women who sacrificed their lives while serving in the ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan says he won’t testify before a special committee looking into his conduct in connection with a utility’s alleged efforts to curry favor with the Democrat. The committee formed at the request of House Republican Leader ...Read more
BYRON, Ill. (AP) — A panel was formed in Byron in hopes of preventing a nuclear energy company from closing its plant. Exelon announced that in the fall of 2021 they would close the Byron Station. Byron School District Superintendent Buster Barton says the Byron Station Response Committee ...Read more
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A Peoria man who was convicted of being the driver of a car from which a passenger fatally shot another man has been sentenced to 66 years in state prison. The (Peoria) Journal Star reports that 24-year-old Jamal Younger was sentenced on Friday. He was convicted earlier this ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say a 5-year-old girl has been fatally stabbed on Chicago’s West Side. Fire officials say officers were called Saturday morning around 9:30 a.m. and found paramedics already working on the girl. The Cook County medical examiner’s office says the girl, ...Read more
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The lawyer for the Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back says his client told investigators he thought Blake was trying to abduct one of his own children. Brendan Matthews, the attorney for Officer Rusten Sheskey, told CNN that Sheskey also ...Read more
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