HENNEPIN – All employees have been reported safe and a fire was contained hours after an incident at Marquis Energy in Hennepin on Wednesday. According to the Putnam County Illinois Emergency Management agency, Hennepin fire was called along with other area departments to the complex in ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A hearing is set for four Chicago police officers who are fighting their dismissals following accusations they covered up a white officer’s 2014 fatal shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald. A Chicago Police Board hearing officer has set aside three days for testimony ...Read more
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — A judge has ruled that spousal privilege laws prevent certain evidence from being used at the trial of the wife of a police lieutenant who killed himself and made it look like it was a line-of-duty death. A Lake County judge ruled Wednesday that texts prosecutors say prove ...Read more
PRINCETON – A former Princeton High School coach accused of having sexual relations with a student entered a plea deal on Tuesday. According to Bureau County State’s Attorney Geno Caffarini, the 27-year-old softball coach and custodian, Brik Wedekind pleaded guilty to aggravated ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Measles outbreaks across the country have prompted several Illinois health systems to pressure parents who haven’t vaccinated their children to do so. One of the systems, Lurie Children’s Hospital, is sending letters to families of its primary care patients 16 months ...Read more
CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a human foot has been found in a pond in northwestern Indiana. Police responded Monday afternoon in Crown Point after a fisherman reported snagging what appeared to be a human foot. Crown Point police Chief Pete Land says in a statement that officers on ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Lawyers for a former University of Illinois student accused of killing Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang say university counselors didn’t offer him adequate care when he sought help for suicidal and homicidal thoughts three months before the 26-year-old Zhang went ...Read more
ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A 90-year prison sentence has been handed a northern Illinois man convicted of firing a bullet that left a man unable to walk, talk and breathe on his own. Perriyon King of Rockford apologized Tuesday for the April 2017 shooting that put 71-year-old Richard Griffin under a ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker urged Illinois legislators Tuesday to “let the people vote” on his constitutional amendment that would dump the state’s flat-rate income tax structure for one that takes a bigger bite from the wealthy . Surrounded by fellow Democrats ...Read more
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — Plans are under way to monitor outdoor air quality outside two Lake County plants that use the cancer-causing gas ethylene oxide. The (Waukegan) News Sun reports that the Lake County Health Department said Monday that sampling would begin by June 1 at sites near Vantage ...Read more
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