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CHICAGO (AP) — Activists are pushing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the City Council to create an elected board that would have the authority to investigate and fire police officers. A couple hundred demonstrators gathered outside of City Hall on Wednesday and called for the mayor and council ...Read more

DEKALB – DeKalb County’s health department reported one additional death from complications from COVID-19 at Pine Acres Rehab and Living Center. The individual was a resident at Pine Acres and had earlier tested positive for coronavirus. This is the 11th resident from the living center ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health announced 546 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state on Wednesday, including 87 additional deaths. IDPH is currently reporting a total of 134,185 cases since the pandemic began, along with 6,485 deaths. Governor JB Pritzker also ...Read more

STREATOR – Just before midnight Tuesday the Streator Fire Department were called to a structure fire in the 900 block of Hall Street.  When they arrived they discovered the corner of an exterior of a home on fire.   It took crews just four minutes to extinguish the blaze, which damaged ...Read more

OTTAWA – Ottawa’s city council voted to approve an amendment to an ordinance that would ban garbage trucks from using alleyways to pickup waste. As the city plans to make improvements to the alleys, the council explained that it would be a waste of money to repair these alleys and still ...Read more

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago aldermen are pitching a plan to remove police officers from the city’s public schools amid outcry from activists who want reforms in the wake of George Floyd’s death. The proposal to end the city’s $33 million contract ...Read more