SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois agriculture officials are encouraging farmers and agrichemical facilities to save empty chemical containers for recycling late this summer. Agriculture Department Director John Sullivan announced Wednesday that the state will collect empty pesticide other ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois’s child welfare agency has reviewed 1,100 of its ongoing abuse and neglect cases as part of a stepped-up effort to right a department that’s facing criticism for failing to prevent the deaths of three children under its watch since January, the ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that suburban Chicago police violated constitutional protections against unreasonable searches by accessing weeks of GPS data indicating a suspect’s car had been outside a jewelry store when it was robbed. The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin reported ...Read more
SPRING VALLEY – Agreements were made between Spring Valley and their fire department on financing a part time firefighter. After much deliberation, the city agreed to help support the employment of a certified day time firefighter for one year to try and resolve the department’s issue of ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A pregnant woman whose body was found behind a home on Chicago’s Southwest Side was murdered and her baby was “forcibly removed” from her body after her death, police said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the victim on Wednesday as ...Read more
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — A semi-trailer hauling honey overturned on a northwestern Indiana highway, spilling some of the sticky substance and restricting travel for hours. State police say the truck was hauling about 41,000 pounds of amber honey along Interstate 80/94 through Hammond when the ...Read more
SPRING VALLEY – Spring Valley’s Finance Committee will make action on Fire Chief Bogatitus’ request for more part time men, Wednesday night. After no resolution was made in a previous Finance meeting, Alderman Dave Pellegrini pushed to put the issue to rest tonight. Chief ...Read more
NORMAL – A police dog with nearly seven years on the Normal Police Department has had to retire after a diagnosis of leukemia. The Normal Police Department announced the news on social media that K-9 Barrett was found to have chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Officer Barrett has taken part in ...Read more
OTTAWA – No comments were made on the details of Lincoln Elementary School Principal’s leave during a special Ottawa School District Board Meeting. A closed session was had on Tuesday for the purpose of discussion of employment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — The trial has started for a Rockford man charged in the death of a 2-year-old Rockford boy whose dismembered remains were found in 2015 in a Chicago lagoon. Cook County prosecutors Tuesday didn’t say how Kyrian Knox died, but said 44-year-old Kamel Harris killed the toddler ...Read more
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