JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Police in a Chicago suburb fatally shot a man brandishing what they believed to be a handgun but was later determined to be a BB gun. Joliet police responded late Tuesday to call of a person threatening to shoot people. Authorities say when police arrived on the scene, they ...Read more
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Police in a Chicago suburb fatally shot a man brandishing what they believed to be a handgun but was later determined to be a BB gun. Joliet police responded late Tuesday to call of a person threatening to shoot people. Authorities say when police arrived on the scene, they ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The latest county unemployment numbers have been released by the state, and they show some counties have had the number of unemployed go up in the last month. Bureau County reported that the unemployment rate was 3.9% for October, but in November that climbed to 4.7%. Putnam ...Read more
PONTIAC – Twenty more residents of Livingston County and seven inmates at the Pontiac Correctional Center have tested positive for COVID-19. The Livingstson County Health Department on Wednesday reported the new cases, adding to the 134 active infections in the county. Since the pandemic ...Read more
PONTIAC – The Livingston County Health Department received the first doses of the new COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday from Moderna. Phase 1A of vaccine distribution is now underway, making sure the vaccine is available for healthcare providers and EMS workers. The U.S. Food and Drug ...Read more
PRINCETON – A Marshall County resident in his 70’s is the latest to pass away from complications related to COVID-19. The Bureau, Putnam & Marshall County Health Department reported Wednesday that a man in his 70’s is the eighth resident of Marshall County to die from the ...Read more
OTTAWA – 90 new cases of COVID-19 were reported by the LaSalle County Health Department on Wednesday, along with 2 additional coronavirus related deaths. With the addition of those deaths, a male in his 50’s and a female in her 90’s, there have now been a total of 215 COVID-19 related ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – 135 additional coronavirus related deaths were confirmed by the Illinois Department of Public Health on Wednesday, including 3 individuals from DeKalb County and 1 from LaSalle County. Illinois also saw 6,762 new cases of COVID-19. Since the pandemic began, there have been a ...Read more
WASHINGTON – The U.S. population grew by the smallest rate in at least 120 years and the state population fell from 2019 to 2020. Figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau show the U.S. population grew by 0.35% from July 2019 to July 2020, an increase of 1.1 million people in a ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A fourth man has been charged in connection with a July Fourth shooting that left a 7-year-old girl dead. Kevin Boyd faces first-degree murder charges in Natalia Wallace’s death outside her grandparents’ home on Chicago’s West Side. Cook County Circuit Judge ...Read more
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