SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan says he won’t testify before a special committee looking into his conduct in connection with a utility’s alleged efforts to curry favor with the Democrat. The committee formed at the request of House Republican Leader ...Read more
BYRON, Ill. (AP) — A panel was formed in Byron in hopes of preventing a nuclear energy company from closing its plant. Exelon announced that in the fall of 2021 they would close the Byron Station. Byron School District Superintendent Buster Barton says the Byron Station Response Committee ...Read more
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A Peoria man who was convicted of being the driver of a car from which a passenger fatally shot another man has been sentenced to 66 years in state prison. The (Peoria) Journal Star reports that 24-year-old Jamal Younger was sentenced on Friday. He was convicted earlier this ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say a 5-year-old girl has been fatally stabbed on Chicago’s West Side. Fire officials say officers were called Saturday morning around 9:30 a.m. and found paramedics already working on the girl. The Cook County medical examiner’s office says the girl, ...Read more
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The lawyer for the Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back says his client told investigators he thought Blake was trying to abduct one of his own children. Brendan Matthews, the attorney for Officer Rusten Sheskey, told CNN that Sheskey also ...Read more
OTTAWA, PRINCETON – Local health departments report 17 recent infections from the novel coronavirus. The LaSalle County Health Department Sunday afternoon reports 11 new confirmed cases, while the Bureau, Putnam and Marshall County Health Departments report 6 new cases in Bureau County on ...Read more
PERU – Two teens are facing charges after allegedly damaging the new artificial turf of a football stadium Saturday morning with what authorities described was a Molotov Cocktail. The Peru Police Department say two 16-year-olds are in custody, one from Peru and one from LaSalle, after an ...Read more
OGLESBY – A way for parents of high school students to learn more about getting them started at college is coming to IVCC. Illinois Valley Community College’s Admissions Office will be hosting a live, virtual Parent College 101 Tuesday, September 29th from 5:30 to 7 PM. The free event is ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Four state agencies have signed a pact to protect monarch butterflies and other important pollinators whose numbers are dwindling.Representatives of the Illinois Departments of Natural Resources, Transportation and Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art is among 12 museums nationwide to receive money through an emergency grant program to help art museums struggling during the coronavirus pandemic. The New York-based Andrew W. Mellon Foundation says the program will have nearly $24 ...Read more
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