CHICAGO (AP) — A report highlighting persistent problems within Illinois’ child welfare agency shows 123 children died in the past fiscal year despite having contact with the Department of Children and Family Services. That’s the highest number in roughly 15 years. Of the 123 ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — More Illinois seniors will qualify for state benefits such as discounted license plates in 2020. The Illinois Department of Aging says it’s using new, higher income limits to determine eligibility for the state’s Benefit Access Program as of Jan. 1. The ...Read more
AURORA, Ill. (AP) — One of five police officers wounded last year in a workplace shooting that left five dead has retired from the Aurora Police Department. Officer James Zegar was among a group of officers that entered the Henry Pratt Co. warehouse on Feb. 15 during the incident. He was shot ...Read more
ST. CHARLES, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for firing a gun at three police officers in 2017. Kane County State’s Attorney Joe McMahon said Thursday 24-year-old Jorge L. Guzman of Aurora pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated discharge ...Read more
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Owners of Illinois glass pipe shops are elated to begin selling bong paraphernalia after the state’s law legalizing recreational marijuana took effect. CU Glass Connection part-owner Jeremy Sample says he and primary owner Owen Serpetis opened their shop Dec. 16 in ...Read more
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered three Illinois prison officials to read transcripts from a lawsuit that accuses the state prison system of mistreating transgender people, saying she is concerned that the state agency is not taking the plaintiffs’ complaints seriously. ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Investigators have identified two small boys allegedly killed by their mother, but a host of questions remain because Chicago police haven’t yet been able to interview her. Police say the 20-year-old Aleah Newell of Chicago stabbed one child and threw another from an ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A 20-year-old Chicago woman has been ordered held without bail on murder charges after police say she killed her two young sons, leaving one in a bathtub and throwing another from an 11th-floor apartment window before jumping herself. Aleah Newell of Chicago is charged with two ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker enjoyed one of the more successful legislative sessions in 2019 of any first-year Illinois executive in recent memory, winning approval for virtually his entire campaign platform. But work continues in 2020. The Democrat will try to persuade voters to ...Read more
ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — Police say a man armed with a pellet gun assaulted a woman he took hostage inside an Illinois bank before surrendering to authorities following a six-hour standoff. Thirty-nine-year-old Nicholas August, of Rockford, is jailed on $2 million bond and charged with two counts ...Read more
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