By HERBERT G. McCANN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Hacker Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence for breaking into computer systems of security firms and law-enforcement agencies, will serve out the remainder of his term in a Chicago halfway house. A spokesman for the U.S. ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Four people, including an associate of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, have been charged with orchestrating a bribery scheme with Commonwealth Edison. The alleged scheme had the utility providing do-nothing jobs to Madigan loyalists in exchange for the speaker’s ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A 16-year prison sentence handed a man convicted of plotting to blow up a Chicago bar has been thrown out by a federal appeals court. The ruling by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sends the case of Adel Daoud back to the district court for resentencing. The appeals court in ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Video released by Chicago police after a 5-year-old boy was shot in the head while playing on an iPad at home shows that an SUV drove past the apartment building several times before someone inside the vehicle opened fire. Detectives hope the video and photographs released ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A U.S. Housing and Urban Development official says Chicago should delay a final operating permit to the owner of a scrap shredder while the government looks into whether a pending move to the city’s southeast side would violate the rights of residents there. In a letter to ...Read more
PRINCETON – The Bureau, Putnam & Marshall County Health Departments announced Wednesday that a Bureau County woman in her 90’s is the latest death attributed to COVID-19. The total number of deaths in Bureau County has now reached 30. “On behalf of the entire staff at the ...Read more
PONTIAC – Sixty-five more residents of Livingston County have tested positive for COVID-19 and the Livingston County Health Department also reported another death on Wednesday. They say a man in his 60’s is the latest to die due to complications of the novel coronavirus, making ...Read more
STREATOR – Streator’s City Council approved two Facade Grants at Thursday night’s meeting. The grants were awarded to two businesses, both on Main Street, for installation of awnings, removal of windows, and other improvements. At last week’s Plan Commission meeting, the council ...Read more
By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The number of new coronavirus infections reported in Illinois Wednesday fell below 10,000 for the first time in 13 days, but an Associated Press analysis of data shows the exponential spread of the virus during the past 12 ...Read more
OTTAWA – 3 individuals reportedly have died from COVID-19 related complications in LaSalle County. The health department confirmed the deaths – individuals in their 70s, 80s, and 90s – as well as 172 new confirmed and probable cases and 86 recoveries. This is the second highest ...Read more
National News
