PONTIAC – The Livingston County Health Department reports Friday that 44 residents are the latest COVID-19 infections in the county. They also noted two more inmates at the Pontiac Correctional Center have also tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The prison has reported 142 cases ...Read more
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Black man paralyzed in a Wisconsin police shooting has reached a plea deal to settle a sexual assault case pending against him. Prosecutors in Kenosha charged 29-year-old Jacob Blake in July with sexual assaulting a woman and breaking into her home. Police were trying to ...Read more
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — Police reports indicate officers in the Chicago suburb of Waukegan didn’t immediately provide medical aid to a man after a police shooting due to fear that he or his girlfriend might be armed. No gun was recovered but in the reports the officers say they moved ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago man is being held without bond after being accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend, her mother and her sister after the girlfriend refused to cook him breakfast and braid his hair. Authorities say John Matthews fled to Iowa after the June 22 fatal shooting of ...Read more
By DON BABWIN and JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s staff says he is self-isolating and awaiting test results after learning he may have been exposed to the coronavirus during a meeting earlier this week. It’s the third time during the ...Read more
By DON BABWIN and JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he isn’t ready to impose drastic lockdown restrictions on the state but has suggested that could happen if the numbers of coronavirus cases keep climbing as fast as they have in recent ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – Over 10,000 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 were announced Friday in Illinois, along with 49 additional deaths. The IDPH also reported that going forward, they will be reporting confirmed and probable cases combined. They define a confirmed case as laboratory confirmed with ...Read more
OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Health Department confirmed 2 COVID-19 related deaths and 142 additional cases. There have now been a total of 75 coronavirus related deaths in the county with over 3,000 cases since the start of the pandemic. Officials also are alerting residents that the ...Read more
SPRING VALLEY – No injuries were reported after a fire damaged a home in Spring Valley Thursday afternoon. The Spring Valley Fire Department were called around 1:30 PM to a home on Westminster Drive and began battling a blaze. Multiple area fire departments were also summoned to the scene, ...Read more
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Republican lawmakers are criticizing President Donald Trump’s unsupported claim that Democrats are trying to “steal” the election, saying Trump’s comments undermine the U.S. political process and the bedrock notion ...Read more
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