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MARKHAM, Ill. (AP) — A man has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his estranged wife outside of a suburban Chicago gas station. Lynn Washington, 40, is also charged with parental child abduction because authorities say that after killing 27-year-old Lakisha Roby

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — With the Illinois primary just days away, state election officials are beefing up cyber defenses and scanning for possible intrusions into voting systems and voter registration rolls. They have good reason to be on guard: Two years ago, Illinois was the lone state known

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge in Chicago has ruled that Cook County Jail violated the rights of an inmate with a prosthetic leg because jail staff didn’t always assign him to cells that had grab bars over his toilet to give him needed mobility. The Chicago Law Bulletin reports Judge John

MENDOTA – A man traveling from Florida to Illinois has been reported missing and the family is seeking the help. On Thursday the Mendota Police Department was notified by family members of 69-year-old Stanley B. Vodden that he was past due on his arrival home to Mendota from Florida. Vodden

CHANNAHON – A 41-year-old man is dead after his vehicle collided with the trailer of a flatbed semi Friday night west of Gardner. According to the Grundy County Coroner’s Office Robert G Hogg allegedly failed to stop while traveling on Gardner Blacktop and proceeded onto IL Route 47

CHICAGO (AP) — A state lawmaker says Illinois needs to consolidate some of its roughly 7,000 units of government to reduce local property taxes, and he thinks eliminating townships would be a good start. Republican state Rep. David McSweeney of Barrington Hills is sponsoring a bill to make it

CHICAGO (AP) — Teams are being dispatched across Illinois to ensure voters’ rights are protected and polling places are accessible during Tuesday’s primary. Attorney General Lisa Madigan says 178 teams of assistant attorneys general and investigators will be monitoring the election.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — Family members say a Nobel Prize-winning Purdue University chemistry professor was confused and searching for help when his wife’s body was found at a northern Illinois landfill. The relatives stated that 80-year-old Sumire Negishi was “near the end of her

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration says it will hire architectural and design teams by summer to redevelop the Quincy veterans’ home campus hit by a Legionnaires’ disease crisis. Michael Hoffman is Rauner’s senior adviser with oversight of the