OGLESBY – An elementary education scholarship has been established with the Illinois Valley Community College Foundation in memory of longtime educator and World War II veteran Clarence Sapienza of Peru. The annual scholarship was set up by Clarence’s widow Myrle and son Mike and wife ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – State Rep. Lance Yednock, D-Ottawa, is recognizing the importance of law enforcement both at the local and state level throughout Illinois during National Police Week. Police Week is an observance that pays tribute to the local, state, and federal peace officers who have died, ...Read more
ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A logistics company says it plans to add 500 jobs at Chicago Rockford International Airport. The Rockford Register Star reports that Pinnacle Logistics already employs 235 people at the airport. The company provides ground services and supply chain management for ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo is celebrating the Mother’s Day birth of a newborn western lowland gorilla. Zoo officials say the male infant was born at about 2 a.m. Sunday to mother Rollie and father Kwan, who weighs in at more than 400 pounds. The newborn has no name. ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ child welfare agency says more than two weeks passed before it was alerted that a woman taken to a Chicago-area hospital with a gravely ill newborn may not be his mother, even though she arrived bloodied and showed no signs of giving birth. Clarisa Figueroa is ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois would pour $41.5 billion into state construction projects over six years to rebuild and maintain roads, mass transit, schools and affordable housing, raise recreation areas, expand broadband and more under a plan Gov. J.B. Pritzker sketched out Friday. It would ...Read more
STERLING, Ill. (AP) — A hero’s ceremony was afforded a soldier from Illinois who was killed during the Korean War and nearly 70-years later buried next to his twin, who was killed during the same battle. The remains of Cpl. John G. Krebs were interred at Sterling’s Calvary Cemetery, ...Read more
OTTAWA – OSF HealthCare is pleased to introduce the new OSF Medical Group – Ear, Nose & Throat and Audiology practice in Ottawa. Beginning in June, the office will feature Tracey Childers, D.O., Board Certified in Otolaryngology and Otolaryngic Allergy, as well as Anna Taravella, CCC-A, ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois State Police (ISP) Troopers across the state participated in Distracted Driving Awareness Week from April 21-27, 2019. During this enforcement campaign Troopers gave special attention to distracted driving, while still enforcing other traffic violations. A press ...Read more
DETROIT (AP) — The grisly act is rare, yet it’s common enough to have a name: fetal abduction. The latest case out of Chicago — in which 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez was strangled and her baby cut from her womb — has similarities to many of the roughly 30 similar crimes carried out ...Read more
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