Local Headlines

    PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Authorities in Illinois have suggested that the remains of a slain 26-year-old scholar from China may never be found despite a vow from prosecutors after her killer was sentenced to life in prison this week that the search will continue. Brendt Christensen, a

          CHATSWORTH –  The Illinois State Rifle Association has filed a lawsuit challenging the state licensure measure Governor JB Pritzker signed into law shortly after taking office. Senate Bill 337 was passed in the 100th General Assembly but was never

        CHICAGO – Excessive heat warnings were announced yesterday by the National Weather Service that run through Saturday and cover most of the Midwest from central Nebraska and Missouri into western Ohio and parts of West Virginia. Public housing officials in

CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport have released three detained children who are U.S. citizens and traveling with an adult deemed “inadmissible.” The children were released Thursday to their mother after

CHICAGO (AP) — A mother and daughter accused of cutting the baby from a Chicago woman’s womb are now also charged with murder in the baby’s death. Cook County prosecutors announced the latest charge against 46-year-old Clarisa Figueroa and 26-year-old Desiree Figueroa on Thursday,

CHICAGO (AP) — An unannounced active shooter drill at a Chicago office building caused worker panic and an aggressive response by police. Officials say police received a call Thursday afternoon of workers hiding because of a shooter on the seventh floor of the 30-story building. Police officers

LASALLE – A New York woman arrested during a traffic stop in LaSalle is charged with possession of purported heroin. According to the Illinois State Police, on Monday 24-year-old Englund Horgan was taken into custody after a traffic stop on I-80 in LaSalle revealed she was in possession

  OTTAWA – EPA cleanup will continue into fall on property located along the Fox River near U.S 6 and Route 71 in Ottawa. According to the EPA workers are removing contaminated soil from the NPL-8 Frontage Property to reduce the risk of exposure to people who have access to the

  DEER GROVE, Ill. (AP) — An electrician in northwestern Illinois is dead after being electrocuted while working on an irrigation system in a farm field. The Whiteside County Sheriff’s Department announced in a news release that 48-year-old Shannon John Pierceson was working on an

    PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A former University of Illinois doctoral student is facing life in prison for the rape and murder of a 26-year-old scholar from China whom he abducted from a bus stop near campus in 2017, after a federal jury said Thursday that it failed to agree on sentencing