By MICHAEL TARM and SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney for a U.S. Army special forces sergeant arrested in what authorities are calling an apparently random shooting at an Illinois bowling alley that left three dead has told an initial hearing that her client may suffer ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — An effort by the Illinois Craft Cannabis Association to force Gov. J.B. Pritzker to award grower licenses was rebuffed by a Cook County judge. By law, 40 grower licenses were to be issued by July 1, but Pritzker hasn’t issued them. He initially cited the COVID-19 pandemic ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A third person has been charged in the death of a retired Chicago Fire Department lieutenant, killed during an attempt to carjack his SUV. Chicago police say 20-year-old Devin Barron was arrested Saturday in Lansing, Illinois by the Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force. Cook ...Read more
PONTIAC – The Livingston County Health Department announced on Monday one new death attributed to COVID-19 and 67 new infections. The addition of the man in his 80’s brings the total number of deaths to 56 in the county since the pandemic began. They say just 142 active cases are ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 4,453 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19, including 105 additional deaths. In total, 942,362 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed along with 16,074 deaths throughout Illinois. As of Sunday evening, 4,243 ...Read more
OTTAWA – 2 additional coronavirus related deaths were reported by the LaSalle County Health Department on Monday. The individuals are a male in his 60’s and a female in her 70’s. The LCHD also confirmed 27 new cases and 14 new recoveries. Since the pandemic began, LaSalle County has ...Read more
WALCOTT, Iowa (AP) — Two people are dead and another person is injured after a wrong-way, head-on crash on an eastern Iowa interstate highway. The accident happened late Saturday on Interstate 80 near Walcott. The Iowa State Patrol said a 1999 Chrysler Concorde was traveling eastbound in the ...Read more
STREATOR – A break-in that occurred sometime during Christmas is under investigation by the Streator Police Department. They say that a resident reported sometime between December 24th and 26th someone entered their home in the 100 block of Charles Street. A television was taken and some ...Read more
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — An online store has stopped selling merchandise supporting an Illinois teen who killed two people and wounded a third during a Wisconsin protest. Prosecutors have charged 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse with multiple counts in the August shootings in Kenosha. Rittenhouse ...Read more
GENESEO, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a woman was found dead in a burning house in Geneseo on Christmas. The Geneseo Police Department say that firefighters and officers with the Henry County Sheriff’s Office rushed to the home in the 400 block of East Pine Street in Geneseo around 11:30 ...Read more
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