CHICAGO (AP) — The musical “Hamilton” will end its more than three-year run in Chicago in January. Producers made the announcement Thursday, saying the production playing at downtown Chicago’s CIBC Theatre would close Jan. 5, 2020. Productions of the Tony Award-winning musical ...Read more
GRAND RIDGE – LaSalle County Sheriffs Office and the Grand Ridge Fire Department presented the“ Cape of Honor “ award to a 5-year-old boy. Authorities say, the boy was able to assist his grandfather after he had been pinned under his ATV, listening to directions in how to maneuver the ...Read more
OTTAWA – Local farmers are still waiting for their big break to begin planting, but with an unfit weather forecast for this weekend, the standstill may be prolonged. LaSalle County Farm Bureau President David Isermann most farmers are still not comfortable to try planting. By Monday, ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ child welfare agency is so intent on keeping children with their parents even when they have strong evidence of abuse that it has sometimes left those children in grave danger, a study released Wednesday found. Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker ordered the study of ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman who sold baby clothes to a pregnant woman and lured her back to her house with an offer of more clothing has been charged with murder after allegedly strangling the woman with a cord and cutting the infant from her womb, police said Thursday. Clarisa Figueroa, 46, ...Read more
SPRING VALLEY – Spring Valley city workers are finding more trash in sewer lines allegedly near a nursing home. According to assistant public works superintendent Chris Insco, the city experienced a sewer back up due to a grease blockage. Workers are certain where the garbage is coming ...Read more
CHICAGO – Three people have been arrested in connection with the death of a pregnant Chicago woman, who was strangled before her baby was cut from her womb. Chicago police took the three into custody shortly before the body of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez was discovered Wednesday behind a home on ...Read more
DEPUE – A 68-year-old IDOT worker suffered minor injuries after a vehicle failed to yield to the stop sign he was holding during road construction Thursday in DePue. According Illinois State Police Dist. 17, just before 9 a.m., a van driven by a Tiskilwa woman who was traveling eastbound on ...Read more
PRINCETON, W.Va. (AP) — A judge has overturned the conviction of an Illinois truck driver in a crash that killed a North Carolina family in southern West Virginia. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph reports Mercer County Circuit Court Judge William Sadler dismissed the case against 41-year-old ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Several inmates have sued the Illinois Department of Corrections over the suspension of a Stateville Correctional Center debate class. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court contends the inmates’ First Amendment rights to free speech were violated with the ...Read more
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