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GLEN ELLYN, Ill. (AP) — A 23-year-old from suburban Chicago has been charged with hiring another man to kill his parents. The DuPage County Sheriff’s Office says deputies responded to a call early Sunday from a couple saying they were attacked with a hammer inside their home in

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Several weekend flights were delayed or canceled at an Illinois airport after a man tried to use a stolen vehicle to ram the main terminal and breached security. The Peoria airport says in a news release that the man was taken into custody and to a hospital after the

AURORA, Ill. (AP) — A veterans official says the remains of a sailor killed during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor are being sent to Illinois for burial. That comes after tests have identified remains of Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Walter Howard Backman, who was a 22-year-old serving

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say a man was seriously injured in a fire that broke out on the 52nd floor of Chicago’s former John Hancock Center. The Chicago Fire Department says the fire was reported in a condominium about 5 a.m. Sunday and was contained to that unit. Emergency crews

STREATOR – Saturday morning LaSalle County Deputies arrested a Streator man for alleged delivery of cocaine. According to the Sheriff’s Office, 21 year old Isaiah Houston was taken into custody at his residence in the 300 block of South 2nd Avenue and charged with possession and

LOST NATION, Ill. (AP) — A state fire investigator says the cause of a house fire that killed four children and two adults from the same northern Illinois family cannot be determined. The Illinois State Fire Marshal’s Office Arson Investigator Greg Castronovo wrote in his report that the

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has granted six petitions for clemency and denied 14 others.  The Republican’s office announced the clemencies on Friday.  The petitions granted were for crimes including retail theft, burglary, battery and forgery. Some of the cases are decades

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is reminding everyone that fishing licenses for 2018 can be renewed starting March 1st. Illinois’ 2018 fishing, hunting, and sportsmen combination licenses will be valid through March 31, 2019. Everyone is exempt from the