CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo is celebrating the Mother’s Day birth of a newborn western lowland gorilla. Zoo officials say the male infant was born at about 2 a.m. Sunday to mother Rollie and father Kwan, who weighs in at more than 400 pounds. The newborn has no name. ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ child welfare agency says more than two weeks passed before it was alerted that a woman taken to a Chicago-area hospital with a gravely ill newborn may not be his mother, even though she arrived bloodied and showed no signs of giving birth. Clarisa Figueroa is ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois would pour $41.5 billion into state construction projects over six years to rebuild and maintain roads, mass transit, schools and affordable housing, raise recreation areas, expand broadband and more under a plan Gov. J.B. Pritzker sketched out Friday. It would ...Read more
STERLING, Ill. (AP) — A hero’s ceremony was afforded a soldier from Illinois who was killed during the Korean War and nearly 70-years later buried next to his twin, who was killed during the same battle. The remains of Cpl. John G. Krebs were interred at Sterling’s Calvary Cemetery, ...Read more
OTTAWA – OSF HealthCare is pleased to introduce the new OSF Medical Group – Ear, Nose & Throat and Audiology practice in Ottawa. Beginning in June, the office will feature Tracey Childers, D.O., Board Certified in Otolaryngology and Otolaryngic Allergy, as well as Anna Taravella, CCC-A, ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois State Police (ISP) Troopers across the state participated in Distracted Driving Awareness Week from April 21-27, 2019. During this enforcement campaign Troopers gave special attention to distracted driving, while still enforcing other traffic violations. A press ...Read more
DETROIT (AP) — The grisly act is rare, yet it’s common enough to have a name: fetal abduction. The latest case out of Chicago — in which 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez was strangled and her baby cut from her womb — has similarities to many of the roughly 30 similar crimes carried out ...Read more
PETERSBURG, Ill. (AP) — The central Illinois settlement where Abraham Lincoln came of age and began his public life is celebrating its centennial as a state park. The donation of land near present-day Petersburg that became Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site will be feted from 10 ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A former Chicago police officer accused in 2016 of groping and forcibly kissing a woman while on duty has pleaded guilty to a reduced misdemeanor charge. The Chicago Tribune reported Monday that records show 60-year-old Michael Clifton was sentenced to two years of conditional ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A spokeswoman for the family a 19-year-old who was killed and whose baby was cut from her womb says what they’re going through is “a nightmare, a horror film.” Julie Contreras is a spokeswoman for relatives of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, whose body was found in a ...Read more
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