CHICAGO (AP) — Lawyers for a former University of Illinois student accused of killing Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang say university counselors didn’t offer him adequate care when he sought help for suicidal and homicidal thoughts three months before the 26-year-old Zhang went ...Read more
ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A 90-year prison sentence has been handed a northern Illinois man convicted of firing a bullet that left a man unable to walk, talk and breathe on his own. Perriyon King of Rockford apologized Tuesday for the April 2017 shooting that put 71-year-old Richard Griffin under a ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker urged Illinois legislators Tuesday to “let the people vote” on his constitutional amendment that would dump the state’s flat-rate income tax structure for one that takes a bigger bite from the wealthy . Surrounded by fellow Democrats ...Read more
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — Plans are under way to monitor outdoor air quality outside two Lake County plants that use the cancer-causing gas ethylene oxide. The (Waukegan) News Sun reports that the Lake County Health Department said Monday that sampling would begin by June 1 at sites near Vantage ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois attorney general has joined 20 of his counterparts around the country in asking that the U.S. Department of Education reverse limitations on routine disclosures of student loan information to state law enforcement. Kwame Raoul says the restrictions interfere with ...Read more
GARY, Ind. (AP) — Attorneys say they believe a plea deal is possible for a woman facing neglect charges after her two young children died in a northwestern Indiana fire last year. On Monday 34-year-old Kristen Gober appeared in a Lake County court. Her public defender and prosecutors asked the ...Read more
ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — Officials in a Winnebago county say overdose deaths are on the rise, and the largest group of victims is people in their 50s. The numbers have prompted discussions among public health, nonprofit and hospital leaders about how to better battle drug addiction. Last year 159 ...Read more
CINCINNATI (AP) — A 23-year-old man faces a U.S. magistrate Tuesday on a charge that he lied to federal agents about being a missing child from Illinois. Authorities on Friday charged Brian Michael Rini of Medina, Ohio, a day after DNA testing ruled him out as being Timmothy Pitzen, who ...Read more
SPRING VALLEY – Spring Valley’s city council voted in favor of purchasing the old Spring Valley Hotel property. On Monday evening, an ordinance was passed authorizing the purchase of real estate located at 226-228 East St. Paul Street. The city agreed to pay Bureau County nearly $1300 ...Read more
LASALLE – Nathan Watson and Peter Limberger, general manager of real estate development and co-founder of CL Enterprises, spoke to LaSalle City Council Monday night regarding plans for the redevelopment of the Maytag building. Watson explained that renovated two story building will host ...Read more
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