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PERU – The Illinois Valley Community Hospital Auxiliary wrapped up its year with an announcement at its closing meeting that it had purchased more than $34,000 worth of medical equipment for IVCH in the past 12 months. Items obtained by the hospital with Auxiliary funds during the past year

  CHICAGO (AP) — A man charged with threatening violence at gay bars in Chicago who was mistakenly released from jail is once again behind bars. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Cara Smith says 31-year-old Shane Sleeper was taken into custody on Chicago’s North Side Thursday

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Stillwater County sheriff’s office plans a search Friday for a 45-year-old Illinois man who is considered missing under suspicious circumstances after his vehicle was found in south-central Montana. Sgt. Randy Smith says a Dodge Charger belonging to Paul Batson

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois lawmakers have sent Gov. Bruce Rauner legislation requiring him and his successors to use governor’s office funds to pay people who work for them. The Senate vote 46-7 Thursday to eliminate what’s called “off-shoring” of salaries . For

SENECA – The Grundy County Coroner’s Office say in a release that a body found Thursday afternoon in a pond may be related to a man missing from Michigan. Authorities were called by fishermen to a pond near US Route 6 and Seneca Road near Seneca where they discovered a body of someone

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois bill would allow veterans organizations to install gambling machines in communities that would otherwise prohibit them. The Video Gaming Act would allow the state Gaming Board to give licensed veterans establishments permission to operate video gaming

MOUNT CARROLL, Ill. (AP) — An Whiteside County man charged with murder in the death of a state child welfare worker is asking for a change of venue for his trial. A hearing is scheduled Friday afternoon on the request that 25-year-old Andrew Sucher’s Carroll County public defender filed

FARMER CITY, Ill. (AP) — An American White pelican has been released in central Illinois about a month after surviving a shooting that killed five of the federally protected birds. The University of Illinois Wildlife Medical Clinic released the pelican Monday near Clinton Lake, a few miles west

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say that gun violence continues to drop this year. In a news release, the department says there have been significant decreases in the number of homicide, shooting incidents and shooting victims in the first four months of this year compared to the same period