STREATOR – Friday afternoon gunshots called Streator Police to the 400 block of South Vermillion Street, but they say nobody was found at the scene. According to the department around 3:30 p.m. they arrived and presumed
SPRING VALLEY – A car crashed into the wheelchair ramp at the Spring Valley Post Office Sunday morning. The driver was injured in the incident and transported by ambulance to the hospital. Their condition is
ROCKFORD – Two men are in custody after a fight in Rockford at the conclusion of a football game where one coach allegedly displayed a gun. On Saturday afternoon Rockford Police responded to a call for a
ORLANDO – The school resource officer who exchanged gunfire with a teen near Dixon High School has been recognized at an awards banquet in Florida. Saturday night in Orlando Dixon Police Officer Mark Dallas was
CHICAGO (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock’s public corruption trial is now scheduled for June in federal court in Chicago. The former Illinois congressman was once a rising Republican star and a formidable GOP fundraiser. He’s
CHICAGO (AP) — Medical marijuana use is up more than 80 percent in Illinois, with PTSD as the most common condition treated, according to a report by the state Department of Public Health. More than 46,000 people
LASALLE – An apartment was heavily damaged and the building was evacuated during a Saturday afternoon apartment fire. LaSalle and Peru fire and EMS responded to a call a little after 1 p.m. to the
CHICAGO (AP) — Four years after he fired 16 bullets into a black teenager, three years after dashcam video of the shooting was released and three weeks after his murder trial began, Jason Van Dyke’s transformation from
SWANSEA, Ill. (AP) — Illinois conservation police have seized a pet bobcat from a family in Swansea. Lakesha Mayweather says she received a permit to own a captive bobcat and that state officials renewed it. She paid
SANDWICH – A woman pedestrian has died after being struck by a train Friday in southern DeKalb County. According to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office and the Sandwich Police Department, 53-year old Kimberly A. Cruver of Sandwich
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