CHICAGO (AP) — Four people, including a close friend of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, have entered not guilty pleas in a federal bribery case alleging a scheme with the state’s largest utility. The pleas were entered Wednesday, weeks after they were charged with federal counts ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Two judges in separate rulings declined to overrule a police review board that ordered the firing of two officers who were accused of helping cover up the 2014 shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald by a fellow officer. The Chicago Tribune reports that the rulings in the ...Read more
PONTIAC – The Illinois State Police say two individuals were taken into custody on drug charges after meth was found during a traffic stop on I-55. They say on Tuesday they stopped a vehicle near Odell and found during a search around five pounds of purported methamphetamine. Two men, one ...Read more
PONTIAC – The Livingston County Health Department say that seven more residents of the county have died from complications of COVID-19. On Wednesday they announced a woman in her 60’s, a woman in her 70’s, a man in his 80’s and three women and a man in their 90’s ...Read more
PRINCETON – The Bureau County Courthouse has had additional restrictions put into place as a precaution against growing COVID-19 cases. Beginning Thursday business will be conducted by appointment only. The courthouse will remain accessible for Bureau County Circuit Court business, however ...Read more
PRINCETON – The Bureau, Putnam & Marshall County Health Department on Wednesday reported four more residents of Bureau County have died from complications related to COVID-19. They announced that three men in their 70’s and a woman in her 80’s have passed away, along with a ...Read more
PERU – Authorities hopped into action to capture a loose marsupial that jumped away from his owner on Wednesday afternoon. Without skipping a beat, Peru and LaSalle police leaped at the chance to track Wally the Wallaroo for over an hour. Animal Control was able to bounce to the ...Read more
OTTAWA – Two males in their 80s are the most recent COVID-19 related deaths in LaSalle County. The county health department confirmed the deaths, now totalling 140 since the start of the pandemic, as well as 101 new cases. 243 coronavirus recoveries were confirmed as well. Since the start ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – 9,757 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 were confirmed by the Illinois Department of Public Health, along with 238 additional deaths. Although the death count is the highest the state has seen in a single day, some of the data that was reported to the IDPH was ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The latest county unemployment numbers have been released by the state, and they show some counties have returned to rates similar to pre-pandemic. Bureau County reported that the unemployment rate is down to 3.9% for October, the same as one year ago, and significantly better ...Read more
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