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OTTAWA – Every cloud has a silver lining and this week shows a glimmer of hope to plant corn in what seems like the longest downpour of ill-suited weather for local farmers. According to the National Weather Service’s forecast, were likely to see scattered showers with lesser rainfall ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois lawmakers have wrapped up their spring session after a whirlwind week that produced a budget, a state construction plan and billions of dollars in tax increases to fund it, more gambling, legalized marijuana use and protections for abortion. The Senate took ...Read more

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police are investigating after video was posted online showing the shooting death of a woman who was shielding her toddler from gunfire. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi released a statement Sunday night calling the video’s release “unauthorized.” ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An exhibit focusing on World War II is to open on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Museum officials say “In This Great Struggle: The Greatest Generation Remembers World War II” opens Thursday ...Read more

CHICAGO (AP) — A former University of Illinois graduate student is set to stand trial in the 2017 disappearance and suspected killing of a visiting scholar from China — a case in which the death penalty is possible and that has been closely watched in the home country of the victim, whose ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — About 20 attorneys plan to volunteer this fall to help people expunge or seal their criminal records. The Sangamon County Expungement and Record Sealing Summit is scheduled for Oct. 19 in Springfield. Land of Lincoln Legal Aid secretary Joy Burgess calls the event ...Read more

CHICAGO (AP) — Police in Chicago say officers responding to a shooting report found two men dead in vehicle in the Old Town neighborhood on the city’s North Side. Authorities say a driver and a passenger were both pronounced dead at the scene at about 6 a.m. Sunday and the vehicle had a ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois lawmakers are in line for a pay raise after a paperwork mix-up that went uncorrected. The House adjourned its spring session Saturday without taking action on a measure that would have frozen base legislative salaries at $67,836. That means that lawmakers would ...Read more

CHICAGO (AP) — Dozens of dogs and cats left homeless by recent storms in Oklahoma have been brought to Chicago. The PAWS Chicago volunteers and medical staff went to Oklahoma to take nearly 60 dogs and cats from shelters that were left overcrowded or without electricity by the storms as well as ...Read more