STREATOR – The Streator Area United Way is nearing their fundraising pledge goal for the year. Ahead of their November 5th dinner, it was announced this week that they were over 88% of the way to meeting their nearly $240,000 goal. The bulk of the funds pledged have come from area ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White announced during National Teen Driver Safety Week that teen driver deaths are down 74% since 2007. “The goal has always been to save lives,” White said. “While our graduated driver licensing program is working as intended with teen ...Read more
By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — As Illinois is battles a resurgence of the coronavirus, the governor is laying groundwork for distributing a vaccine when it becomes available. Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday that vaccines will first go to health ...Read more
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago police officer who made public allegations of misconduct in the death while in custody of a Black criminal suspect has been arrested. Joliet police Sgt. Javier Esqueda was charged Wednesday with official misconduct. The charges are the result of Esqueda ...Read more
FORD HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a suburban Chicago man who was seriously injured when the plane he was piloting crashed near a highway Tuesday later died from his injuries. The Cook County medical examiner’s office says 70-year-old Lawrence Jagmin of Frankfort was pronounced ...Read more
PONTIAC – Twelve more residents of Livingston County have tested positive for COVID-19, including three children under the age of 10. The Livingston County Health Department say all of the newly infected are recovering at home in isolation. So far, the department has received 16,339 COVID-19 ...Read more
URBANA, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say they finally know the name of a woman whose remains were found in a field near Thomasboro in central Illinois in 1995. Champaign County officials say DNA tests helped them identify the woman as Keri Lyn Wyant. They say Wyant grew up in Galesburg, about 150 ...Read more
DEKALB – 27 more cases of COVID-19 were reported by the DeKalb County Health Department. In total, 2,236 cases have been reported throughout the county since the start of the pandemic, with 42 deaths. Of those deaths, 1 had come from a resident of Oak Crest DeKalb Area Retirement Center, ...Read more
OTTAWA – The 61st COVID-19 related death in LaSalle County reported on Wednesday. The death, a female in her 80’s, was announced as well as 26 new cases, individuals ranging in age from youth to in their 90’s. In addition, 72 more recoveries were announced on Wednesday, for a total of ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 69 coronavirus related deaths on Wednesday, the highest daily COVID-19 related death count the state has seen since mid-June. 4,342 new cases of COVID-19 were also confirmed by the IDPH. This is the 7th day in a row Illinois ...Read more
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