SPARLAND – A vehicle crash north of Sparland took the life of a Peoria man, and injured others on Sunday. According to the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office, on Sunday just before 3 p.m. a vehicle driven by 68-year-old Donald Burhans of Peoria, was traveling South of Route 29 ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration says it will put more than $3.7 billion into highway construction next year alone. The Democrat on Monday released the annual update to the state’s transportation improvement program. Pritzker says that the state ...Read more
STREATOR – The Streator Police Department is looking for information on who may be responsible for shooting out multiple windows in the last week with what they say is a BB gun. On Monday authorities released security camera still images of a red car allegedly aiming a weapon out of a ...Read more
UTICA – The LaSalle County Coroner’s Office has identified the man who fell to his death at Starved Rock State Park on Saturday. William Wujek announced that 30-year-old Daniel J. King of Bradley, Illinois was at the Council Overhang and fell just after 10 a.m. According to the ...Read more
STREATOR – An elderly person from Streator had apparently already shipped a package with $10,000 in it unknowingly to Social Security scammers on Friday, but police were able to intervene. The Streator Police Department helped a resident recover the funds before they were delivered to a ...Read more
DIXON – A Dixon woman has died after a crash Friday in rural Lee County. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office say that around 2 PM a two vehicle collision on Lowell Park Road near Timber Creek Road sent 84-year-old Jerle Barton to the hospital where she was pronounced deceased. The ...Read more
MENDOTA- The crowd was supportive Sunday at Strouss Park in Mendota as the striking District 289 teachers and more gathered near a hay rack to hear speeches. Talks on Saturday between the school board and the union broke down again before both sides could agree on the next meeting location. ...Read more
ST. CHARLES, Ill. (AP) — A former suburban Chicago substitute teacher has been sentenced to 112 years in prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting a student. The Daily Herald reports a Kane County judge sentenced 64-year-old Carlos A. Bedoya of Lake in the Hills on Friday. Bedoya was charged in ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s mayor said Friday that the city’s top police officer told her he’d had “a couple of drinks with dinner” before he fell asleep at a stop sign while driving home, an incident that the chief contends was related to a change in his blood ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — More than 300,000 public school students in Chicago are getting another day off as contract talks continue between the teachers’ union and the nation’s third-largest school district. Chicago Public Schools announced Sunday night that classes and after school ...Read more
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