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COMPTON – Congressman Adam Kinzinger appeared in Compton today to announce a USDA Rural Development investment. The village will receive a loan of $680,000 and a grant of $956,000, which will go towards constructing a new water tower, rehabilitating the well building, and replacing the

    LASALLE – LaSalle Peru Township High School is conducting a Code Red/Active Shooter safety drill later this week. Students will be dismissed early this Wednesday at 11:20am, while faculty and staff will practice safety procedures to prepare for potential emergency situations with

MENDOTA – The Mendota Police Department will begin actively upgrading enforcement in school zones beginning Monday.  They say they’ll be focusing on child safety seats, use of cell phones and speeding in and around the community.  The Mendota Police will be enhancing their patrols

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Blackhawks’ 4-3 loss to the Winnipeg Jets was just the beginning of their mascot’s woes. Chicago police say they were called to a disturbance Friday at United Center. A fan had attacked mascot Tommy Hawk. But a video of the fracas posted on social media

  KANKAKEE (AP) — Communities across Illinois are receiving a combined $13.7 million to reduce hazards from lead-based paint in low-income housing. About $3.6 million will be used in Kankakee, with $3,000,000 in Lead Hazard Reduction Program funding and $600,000 going to Healthy Homes

WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) — Authorities in northern Illinois say three men were killed when a vehicle they were in slid off a road and slammed into a tree. The crash happened at about 3:30 on Sunday morning in unincorporated Woodstock. The McHenry County Sheriff’s Department says the

FARMINGTON – A statewide Amber Alert that was issued for an infant that was in a stolen car was a hoax created by a man who allegedly was the victim of a robbery during a drug deal.   The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office say they received a call around 5 p.m.  for a stolen car from a

HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — A Michigan woman who was crushed by her own vehicle at a tollbooth along the Indiana Toll Road has died from her injuries. Illinois State Police say 40-year-old Luciana Ortiz of Otsego, Michigan, died Wednesday, four days after she was injured after dropping her debit card

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — A man convicted in the 2016 bludgeoning deaths of a man and woman in a suburban Chicago auto body shop has been sentenced to life in prison. Will County Judge David Carlson this week sentenced 43-year-old William Krasawski of Bourbonnais. Krasawski was earlier convicted in

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The resumption of soybean sales to China this week is encouraging to American farmers who have seen the value of their crop plummet amid a trade war with the world’s second-largest economy, but producers see it only as a small step and say they need more federal