HARMON – A Bureau County man was airlifted to Rockford for injuries he sustained in a UTV rollover in rural Lee County. According to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, they say on Saturday night they were called to a field west of Harmon Road near Keigwin Road for two persons injured ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health Sunday announced 899 new cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, including 31 additional deaths. Currently, the IDPH is reporting a total of 11,256 cases, including 274 deaths, in 71 counties in Illinois. The age of cases ranges from younger than ...Read more
OTTAWA- A late update by the LaSalle County Health Department added another COVID-19 case to the growing list, a woman in her 20’s. She is said to be recovering at home in isolation and is the fourth case announced on Sunday. ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois governor says the state needs thousands more ventilators from the federal government as it desperately prepares for its a peak in coronavirus cases expected in late April. Gov. J.B. Pritzker told CNN Sunday that he has requested 4,000 ventilators but has received ...Read more
OTTAWA – A total of ten cases of COVID-19 have been found in LaSalle County. Three new cases were announced by the LaSalle County Health Department Sunday afternoon. They announced two men in their 30’s and 40’s plus a woman in her 40’s have had positive test results. So ...Read more
PONTIAC – A woman in her 50’s is recovering at home after testing positive for COVID-19. The Livingston County Health Department made the announcement Sunday. The woman was said to be recovering at home in isolation. She was the 7th person diagnosed in the county. Due to ...Read more
MORRIS – Two more residents of Grundy County have tested positive for COVID-19. The Grundy County Health Department announced Sunday that a man and a woman in their fifties had become infected, but did not disclose their condition or community of residence. Their close contacts and ...Read more
CHICAGO (Chicago Tribune) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has commuted the sentence of a suburban Chicago man with cancer who was serving four years in prison for ordering 42 pounds of chocolate infused with the main psychoactive component in marijuana. The Aurora-Beacon News reports that ...Read more
MORRIS -The Grundy County Coroner John Callahan in a release Sunday morning has said that an inmate from the Stateville Correctional Institute has died due to COVID-19. They say 66-year-old Ronald Rice was a patient at Morris Hospital. Rice was serving an 80 year sentence for the murder ...Read more
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