PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys are delivering final arguments to jurors on whether a former University of Illinois doctoral student should be sentenced to death for killing a young scholar from China. Closing arguments Wednesday come after testimony in the death-penalty ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered R. Kelly held in jail without bond after a prosecutor warned that the singer accused of having sex with minors and trying to cover up the crimes would pose an extreme danger to young girls if set free. “If he was attracted to middle school ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Planned Parenthood of Illinois has announced it will stop accepting federal funds because of a new Trump administration rule barring family planning clinics from referring women for abortions. The administration notified clinics Monday that in the addition to immediately ...Read more
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A former southern Illinois assistant public defender who is accused of practicing law without a license is facing new charges for writing bad checks. Kelcie Miller was charged last month with deceptive practices for writing the checks in northern Illinois’ ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s inspector general says probes by the city’s newly formed police oversight agency were compromised by an investigator who had relatives and friends, all police officers, under investigation. In a report released Tuesday, Inspector General Joe Ferguson says a ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson is urging President Donald Trump to pardon former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for his corruption crimes. Jackson and his son, Jesse Jackson Jr., say Blagojevich’s 14-year prison sentence was “unfair and unnecessary.” They say he was a ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is urging residents to report flood damage to their county’s emergency management agencies. He says such action will increase the likelihood the state will qualify for federal disaster aid. According to the governor’s office, the ...Read more
OTTAWA – The city of Ottawa will apply for a grant to fund part of their long time sewer control plan. In a public hearing at Tuesday night’s council meeting it was announced by the North Central Council of Governments that the city plans to apply for a $500,000 Community Development ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — The alligator had a good run as day after day the people hunting for him in a Chicago lagoon came up empty, but in the end he was no match for an expert the city shipped in from Florida. The male gator, nicknamed ‘Chance the Snapper,’ was first spotted in the Humboldt ...Read more
OTTAWA – LaSalle County’s Farm Bureau President David Isermann is hoping J.B. Pritzker’s request for an agricultural disaster declaration is approved. The Governor has issued several state disaster declarations, one involving the Federal Emergency Management Agency where ...Read more
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