OTTAWA – 2020 is a win for mental health reform in Illinois. By next year, several bills geared around mental health will be put into law, including one that targets college campus’. In March, The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Illinois Chapter lobbied for an law ...Read more
CHICAGO – Local unemployment rates made a slight increase during the month of November. According to the Illinois Department of Employment and Security, LaSalle County is 4.3% unemployed, the highest rates locally. Putnam County made the biggest increase, still the lowest rates locally, ...Read more
OTTAWA – A mental health exam is pending for a LaSalle man accused of suffocating his infant son. 23-year-old Kenneth Herbst faces first degree murder charges stemming from a March incident in the 900 block of Grant Street in LaSalle where authorities say he smothered his 2-month-old son ...Read more
AURORA, Ill. (AP) — An Aurora man who made more than 27,000 crosses to commemorate victims of mass shootings across the country is retiring. According to The Beacon-News, Greg Zanis came to realize his Crosses for Losses ministry was beginning to take a personal toll on him. Zanis has set up ...Read more
PONTIAC, Ill. (AP) — A judge has set a $5 million bond for a state corrections officer who’s charged in the Christmas Day shootings of his wife, adult son and another man in a small eastern Illinois community. Fifty-three-year-old Clifford W. Brewer faces six counts of first-degree ...Read more
CULLOM, Ill. (AP) — A 53-year-old man has been arrested in the Christmas Day shootings of three people in Livingston County. According to the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office, Clifford W. Brewer of Cullom is charged with three counts of first degree murder. The victims, 51-year-old ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois prisons have to undergo wide reforms in the treatment of transgender inmates under a court order, including avoiding cross-gender strip searches and training for employees. The order issued earlier this month follows a 2018 lawsuit filed on behalf of five transgender ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois Gaming Board has moved to revoke the license of a video gambling operator for allegedly offering a $5 million “illegal inducement” to the owner of a gambling parlor chain. A spokesman for Rick Heidner has dismissed the claim, calling it a “smear ...Read more
PERU – Early this afternoon, Peru Police Department responded to a business in the 5300 block of Mahoney Drive in Peru to investigate a reported attempted armed robbery and stabbing of a 50 year-old woman. The woman was transported by ambulance to Illinois Valley Community Hospital with a ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD (AP) – Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has spent at least $3 million of his own money for state expenses including staff raises and building renovations. Experts call the practice is troubling because money spent from private funds isn’t subject to open records laws and ...Read more
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