OTTAWA – A multitude of warnings were issued across North Central Illinois Saturday for a series of storms that uprooted trees and possibly spawned a tornado near Joliet. The National Weather Service received multiple reports for wind damage across the state, and locally trees and ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD- The budget headed to the desk of Governor J.B. Pritzker is an over $40 billion dollar plan that relies on Federal spending to make ends meet, but Republican State Senator Sue Rezin was vocal about the Democrats plan pushed through on Saturday. “I could not support the budget that ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois House passed a $40 billion state budget late Saturday that relies heavily on federal funding. The Chicago Tribune reported the spending plan for the budget year that begins July 1 now heads to the Senate. The budget passed on a largely party-line vote of ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood is known as the heart of Mexican culture in the city. It’s also located in a ZIP code with one of the highest rates of positive coronavirus cases in the city. Across the country, states reporting racial data indicate similar trends, with ...Read more
PERU – A laboratory technologist described as someone who “always puts the patient first” is the 2020 winner of the Buckman Family Employee of the Year Award at Illinois Valley Community Hospital in Peru. Mindy McLane, a medical lab tech who is currently serving as one of the interim ...Read more
CHICAGO (Chicago Tribune) — Illinois is no longer providing the total numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths at long-term care facilities in favor of disclosing information about recent outbreaks. The Chicago Tribune reports that the state’s Department of Public Health now only ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has intervened in a lawsuit challenging Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s stay-at-home order to stem the spread of the coronavirus. The federal government filed a statement of interest in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis supporting the lawsuit filed ...Read more
MAZON – A Grundy County man is dead after being struck by a car in front of his home Saturday. Authorities say 63-year-old John A. Cravens Jr. was near his mailbox around 2:30 PM in the 700 block of East Grand Ridge Road when he was hit by an eastbound vehicle. He was pronounced dead ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health reports 75 Coronarvirus deaths on Saturday. The deaths range in age from a Cook County woman in her 20’s, and a woman over a 100 in Dupage County. The vast majority of the deaths, 71, were either in the Chicago area or ...Read more
OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Health Department reports two new Covid-19 cases on Saturday. Health officials say the cases are two men, one in his 60’s, the other in his 90’s. That makes 135 total cases since the start of the pandemic. One person has been released from ...Read more
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