OTTAWA – A Michigan man is being held on one million dollars bond after a Tuesday night incident where he allegedly opened fire with a pistol on Oglesby Police Officers on the campus of Illinois Valley Community College. In court on Thursday 35-year-old Peter Douglas Bergsma of Grand ...Read more
PERU – An Oglesby man is accused of placing a spy camera in an employee bathroom at a Peru business. On Wednesday Peru Police arrested 21-year-old Drew M. Meredith of Oglesby and charged him with a class 4 felony charge of Unauthorized Videotaping & Live Video Transmission. Meredith ...Read more
STREATOR – The Streator Police Department say that someone made off with a large amount of scrap steel from a business in Streator. They were called Thursday to the 900 block of North Shabbona Street for a report of over $10,000 worth of scrap steel taken from the Owens Glass property. The ...Read more
By RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s attorney general recommended no criminal charges or licensing actions in the case of more than 2,000 sets of fetal remains that were found last year in suburban Chicago. Attorney General Curtis Hill said Wednesday the ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago Sun-Times review of every public name in the city shows that at least 30 Chicago Public Schools are named after people who owned or traded enslaved Black or indigenous people, a shock that came to CPS officials. Maurice Swinney, chief equity officer for CPS, said ...Read more
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a 17-year-old Illinois teen accused of shooting three people during a protest in southeastern Wisconsin with violating curfew. Kyle Rittenhouse was charged in Kenosha County in August with multiple counts, including homicide, endangerment and being a ...Read more
By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Emails released publicly show Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was first told in November 2019 of “pretty bad wrongful raid” on the home of a Black woman who wasn’t allowed to put on her clothes before police handcuffed her. The ...Read more
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — A Kendall County grand jury has indicted a Joliet police sergeant on four counts of official misconduct for accessing the video of an arrested man’s fatal overdose. Tuesday’s indictment of Sgt. Javier Esqueda alleges he used a laptop in his squad car to view a ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Elementary School Association has announced that winter sports activities will remain paused. IN a letter sent to districts statewide, they say that due to Illinois remaining in Tier 3 mitigations, no practices or games can be held. Practices for some sports were ...Read more
PONTIAC – Twenty-three more residents of Livingston County have tested positive for COVID-1. The Livingston County Health Department on Wednesday said that 3,106 residents have tested positive for the novel coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. Currently, 172 cases remain active and 56 ...Read more
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