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  SYCAMORE – The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public for help locating an SUV after a barn fire on June 6th. Authorities say a white Jeep four door SUV was seen near the 1900 block of Brickville Road in Sycamore on June 6th prior to the fire. They ask if anyone ...Read more

OTTAWA – OSF HealthCare Saint Elizabeth medical Center named a new president yesterday. Dawn Trompeter will take over duties as well as maintain her role as president of OSF Healthcare Saint Paul in Mendota. Trompeter was formerly the chief financial officer for OSF Saint Elizabeth. ...Read more

MONEE, Ill. (AP) — A pilot is dead after a small plane he was flying crashed Monday into a cornfield near a small northern Illinois airport. Will County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Kathy Hoffmeyer says the single-engine plane had just taken off from Bult Field near the community of ...Read more

CHICAGO (AP) — A man accused of setting fire to a Chicago police vehicle during protests over police misconduct will be held in custody until trial. U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes on Monday ordered Timothy O’Donnell held pending trial after prosecutors asserted the defendant had a ...Read more

DEKALB – The DeKalb County Health Department announced one additional death in the County from COVID-19 on Monday. The resident was said to be in their 80s and died from complications of COVID-19. The DCHD also reported 8 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the county total to ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health announced 658 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, along with 23 additional deaths. This is the lowest number of daily confirmed cases since March 30th for the state. Locally, the LaSalle County Health Department announced two additional ...Read more

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tropical Storm Cristobal has crashed ashore in Louisiana, and the lopsided storm is also bringing high wind and drenching rains to nearby areas of Mississippi and Alabama. The storm also spun off a tornado in north Florida before its landfall Sunday not far from the mouth of ...Read more

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has lifted the city’s 9 p.m. curfew. Lightfoot on Sunday announced on Twitter the end of the curfew as city reopened subway stations in the city’s central commercial district, lowered bridges across the Chicago River and allowed bus ...Read more

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — University of Illinois researchers are studying how a disease-carrying mosquito has spread in the state for decades. They focused on Asian tiger mosquitoes, an invasive bug that can spread dengue fever and other diseases. The mosquitoes originated in southeast Asia, came ...Read more