CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say it isn’t unusual for agents to confiscate contraband like the 32 pounds of rat meat recently seized at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Customs spokesman Steve Bansbach tells the Chicago Tribune all ...Read more
CHEBANSE, Ill. (AP) — Three people have been reported injured when a single-engine airplane crashed into a northern Illinois wheat field. The Iroquois County Sheriff’s Department says the plane crashed Friday southeast of Chebanse. It wasn’t immediately known from where the ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A Beluga whale has given birth to a calf at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium. The 38-year-old beluga, Mauyak, delivered Wednesday evening. Shedd officials say the mother and calf are doing well and will remain under 24-hour observation by the aquarium’s animal care team. They ...Read more
OTTAWA – Ottawa is hoping to relieve traffic congestion near railroads. The city, U.S Silica, IDOT and Hanson Services are all in agreement to perform a railroad study to relieve traffic congestion when trains are switching cars and find an alternative place to assemble. Mayor Dan Aussem ...Read more
OTTAWA – Soybean yield could be down unless we get perfect weather from here on out, according to LaSalle County’s Farm Bureau President David Isermann. After an unseasonably wet planting season for corn, some farmers in the county turned to prevent plant and moved on to soybeans. But ...Read more
MORTON, Ill. (AP) — Budget-conscious eaters could be cringing: Police say a truck carrying ramen noodles overturned in central Illinois. The driver from Columbus, Ohio, apparently was driving too fast Wednesday night on a ramp connecting two interstates near ...Read more
PERU – A man was arrested on cocaine charges, Friday after an investigation by the Peru Police Department. According to authorities, 39-year-old Kilman R. Johnson of Peru was taken into custody at 2 p.m. by detectives with the Peru Police Department’s Special Investigation unit on a ...Read more
TISKILWA – A building was leveled in what authorities say was an explosion Friday morning in rural Bureau County. According to a Bureau County Sheriff’s Deputy, the cause of the blast has not been determined in the 19000 block of Plow Creek Road. Tiskilwa, Bureau and Princeton ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker is seeking a federal agriculture disaster declaration for all of Illinois following the state’s soggy planting season. Pritzker says in his request to the U.S. Department of Agriculture that winter snow melt and record rain caused rivers to ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The 183rd Wing of the Illinois Air National Guard could start flying F-16s again after spending years repairing them if the state’s two U.S. senators have their way. U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth and Sen. Dick Durbin have proposed an amendment to the National Defense ...Read more
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