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STICKNEY, Ill. (AP) — The visitation, funeral and burial will take place this week for a Chicago woman who was strangled and her baby cut from her womb . According to Mount Auburn Funeral Home in the Chicago suburb of Stickney, Marlen Ochoa-Lopez will have a two-day visitation on Thursday and

CHICAGO (AP) — A wildlife biologist has taken prairie chickens from Kansas, which has a more robust population, and released them in Illinois in an effort to boost the population of the endangered birds. The birds once numbered in the millions across the state but there are now about 200 left,

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A 31-foot tall statue of Abraham Lincoln will make its debut this week in Springfield after stops in Chicago and Peoria. The (Springfield) State Journal-Register reports the 19-ton sculpture named “Return Visit” will be located in front of the Abraham

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

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,

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

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.

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

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

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,