OGLESBY – Auditions for the Illinois Valley Community College theatre department’s spring 2019 production of “Mamma Mia!” will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9 and 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 10 in the Dr. Mary Margaret Weeg Cultural Centre. Callbacks will be Tuesday, Dec. 11. Auditions are ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police say there were fewer robberies last month than any November since 2010 and the fewest number of shootings for any November since 2014. In a news release, the department said there were 42 homicides for the month compared to 37 the previous November but that for the ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois turns 200 on Monday. And the state has a gala celebration planned The Illinois Bicentennial party that organizers have arranged at Chicago’s Navy Pier will be at times solemn, like a Cahokia Woodhenge solstice observed 1,000 years ago by some of the ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A not-guilty plea was entered in federal court by a former Chicago police commander charged with stealing Social Security funds in a scheme lasting more than 23 years. Federal prosecutors allege Kenneth Johnson bilked the Social Security Administration out of $363,064 from about ...Read more
TAYLORVILLE, Ill. (AP) — The National Weather Service says multiple tornadoes touched down in central Illinois, damaging dozens of structures and injuring at least 20 people. Meteorologist Chris Geelhart says the twisters occurred Saturday evening along the Illinois River and near Springfield. ...Read more
BYRON, Ill. (AP) — Ten football players at a Byron high school were suspended from the team for three games last month after they ran across a field naked with Oreo cookies wedged between their buttocks. The players were suspended for indecent exposure but that school administrators concluded ...Read more
CARY, Ill. (AP) — A McHenry County man has been charged with trying to give an officer HIV by biting him in the leg. Police in the community of Cary say that the incident happened in June when police went to the home of 37-year-old Christopher J. Seerden for a well-being check. They say Seerden ...Read more
DWIGHT – Authorities say a single vehicle crash claimed the life of one Livingston County man early Friday morning. The Livingston County Coroner stated that 22 year-old Collin Csecsinovits of Dwight, Illinois was pronounced dead at the scene just south of Dwight, at 2900 E. 2675 North ...Read more
OGLESBY – The old Illinois Valley Community College dairy barn just south of the south entrance to campus will be demolished beginning early Monday morning. S & K Excavating & Trucking of Yorkville will begin taking down the structure with their heavy equipment sometime after 6:30 ...Read more
HOUSTON (AP) — George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, has died. He was 94. The World War II hero, who ...Read more
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