ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a 56-year-old woman with disabilities and her three small dogs have died in a Rockford house fire. Firefighters were called to the house just before 3 a.m. Friday and found smoke coming from windows and eaves. Firefighters searched the home and found the ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD –State Rep. Lance Yednock is sponsoring a resolution that support veterans who may be facing mental illness and requests the state to create a memorial for veterans who have been lost due to suicide. House Resolution 168 states support for veterans struggling with mental illness ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Department of Agriculture plans to honor former state agriculture director and former U.S. Agriculture Secretary John Rusling Block. The agency said Wednesday that it plans to dedicate a plaque with Block’s likeness on Monday morning at the Illinois ...Read more
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services says it’s had previous contact with the family of a 5-year-old boy missing from his suburban Chicago home in Crystal Lake. The agency has said Andrew “AJ” Freund was born with opiates in his ...Read more
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (AP) — Police in the Chicago suburb of Crystal Lake say they’re focusing their search for a missing 5-year-old boy on his family’s residence. Crystal Lake police said Friday that they have no indication Andrew “AJ” Freund was abducted. They say canine ...Read more
PEORIA – For the second year in a row, OSF HealthCare has again been named one of the best employers in the country for 2019 by Forbes magazine, and the highest ranked Illinois-based health care system earning the distinction. OSF HealthCare is ranked 118 out of companies nationwide with 1,000+ ...Read more
CLARKSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A site in southern Indiana has been selected for a national ceremony next month dedicating a 1,200-mile expansion of the Lewis and Clark Historic Trail. Nnational, state and local leaders plan to join area residents May 13 at the Falls of the Ohio Interpretive Center in ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County officials want pet owners to know that coyotes this time a year are both wily and hungry. In a news release, the county says more than 1,500 coyotes reside around the county. It says the springtime mating and whelping can give coyotes an appetite that they may seek to ...Read more
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service for the first time in recent history oversaw the burning of more than 10,000 acres this year in southern Illinois’ Shawnee National Forest. Fire management officer Scott Crist says the prescribed burning is designed to mimic fire that ...Read more
PERU – Peru police responded to a home on the city’s westside for a possible armed subject in a residence who allegedly displayed a possible handgun at a civil process server. According to the Peru Police Department, a total of 10 on and off duty Peru officers, detectives and command ...Read more
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