CHICAGO (AP) — A group of employees from 13 McDonald’s restaurants in Chicago filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that the company’s drive for profits puts workers at “daily risk” of physical attack by dangerous customers. In the lawsuit filed in Cook County court, the 17 workers ...Read more
CHICAGO – LaSalle and Putnam counties unemployment rates made a slight decrease in the month of October. According to the Illinois Department of Employment and Security, LaSalle County is 4.2% unemployed, compared to 4.4 in September. Putnam County made the biggest decrease, falling ...Read more
STREATOR – Streator’s city manager says he has a strategy to fiscal stability and funding to the police and fire pensions. Thursday morning City Manager David Plyman met with council to present his plans to zero the city’s deficit and increase police and fire pension ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois officials have granted parole to an 80-year-old inmate sentenced to life in prison for the killings of three women in 1960. Chester Weger has denied killing the three Riverside, Chicago women, whose badly beaten bodies were found in March 1960 in a cave at Starved ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois officials have granted parole to an 80-year-old inmate sentenced to life in prison for the 1960 killings of three suburban Chicago women, whose brutalized bodies were found in a cave at a state park. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board voted 9-4 Thursday to ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The longest serving inmate in the state is up for a parole hearing today at 9 AM. Chester Weger was convicted in 1960 in the deaths of one of three women found dead at Starved Rock State Park, one of the areas most notorious crimes. Weger has maintained his innocence. Last ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker has ordered severe restrictions on public schools’ use of isolation rooms for troubled children. The Democrat said Wednesday he directed the Illinois State Board of Education to issue emergency rules governing so-called timeout rooms. The order ...Read more
STREATOR – Residents in Streator are concerned of children’s safety due to truck traffic near Northlawn Junior High. During public comment at Streator’s City Council meeting, a resident of North Wasson Street, who lives near four school bus stops, addressed the high truck traffic in the ...Read more
NAPERVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago 14-year-old faces hate crime and other charges for allegedly posting on Craigslist a picture of an African American classmate with the caption, “Slave for sale.” The white Naperville Central High School freshman appeared Wednesday in DuPage ...Read more
JOLIET – A California man is in custody after authorities seized nearly 200 pounds of cannabis and other paraphernalia during a traffic stop in Joliet on Monday. According to the Will County Sheriff’s Office, 64-year-old Micheal Glenn Silliman was arrested after a traffic stop on ...Read more
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