OGLESBY – The Illinois Valley Community College’s board approved a tentative 2021 budget last week. The plan is not expected to require a tax increase. Revenues are projected at $32.1 million, less than one percent over the previous year. Expenditures of $32.5 million are up less than one ...Read more
UTICA – Starved Rock and Matthiessen State Park will remain closed for the foreseeable future as officials work to clean up after the storm which battered North Central Illinois a week ago. The Deracho brought with it up to 100 MPH winds, causing trees to fall blocking trails and picnic ...Read more
NORTH AURORA, Ill. (AP) — The family of a suburban Chicago woman who died of complications related to COVID-19 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a meatpacking plant where her husband worked and contracted the virus. The family of Esperanza Ugalde alleges in their lawsuit that Aurora ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is again warning of rising COVID-19 rates, saying young people are behind the recent uptick. The first-term Democrat spoke Sunday to CBS’ “Face the Nation,” saying officials have to “break through to young people that they are ...Read more
WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) — A county board has tabled a decision on whether a northern Illinois jail will keep its contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain immigrants. The Northwest Herald reports the resolution will come up again at the McHenry County Board’s Sept. 15 ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — State figures show that recreational marijuana sales in Illinois total more than $300 million since the start of the year. The Illinois Department of Finance and Professional Regulation and New Frontier Data reported that July cannabis sales were the highest of the year at $61 ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — State officials are again imposing restrictions in southwestern Illinois following a resurgence of COVID-19 cases. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced the restrictions Sunday, including limiting capacity at meetings and social events and closing bars and casinos at 11 p.m. The ...Read more
SYCAMORE – A man has died after an ATV crash in DeKalb County. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office say that on Friday around 8 PM 58-year-old Gregory S. Duecker of Sycamore was traveling on Larson Road when for unknown reasons he lost control and rolled several times. Duecker was ...Read more
DETROIT (AP) — Personnel records show a state employee who was suspected of a stabbing after a face mask dispute on July 17th and was later fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy was reprimanded for three work incidents from 2017 to 2018. The Detroit News reports Michigan Department of ...Read more
PRINCETON – The Bureau, Putnam and Marshall County Health Departments on Sunday announced five new COVID-19 cases in Bureau County. One of the cases, a woman in her 80’s, was said to be in the hospital while the other four remain at home in isolation. Bureau County now has had 283 ...Read more
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