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CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman has become the second U.S. patient diagnosed with the new pneumonia-like virus from China. Health officials say woman returned from a trip to China on Jan. 13 without showing any signs of illness, but a few days later she called her doctor to report feeling sick.

CHICAGO (AP) — A 7-year prison sentence has been handed the operator of Chicago convenience store who sold illegal synthetic marijuana laced with rat poisoning. Fouad Masoud pleaded guilty last year to selling the illegal substance from his King Mini Mart on Chicago’s West Side. In sentencing

UTICA – Ice-falls are forming at Starved Rock State Park that will attract thrill-seekers to ascend the formations. Ice climbing is allowed at Wildcat, LaSalle and Ottawa Canyons, but at your own risk. Avid ice climber and Illinois Valley Community College Mathematics Instructor, Wes Black

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Police are warning of scammers using local area state police district phone numbers. Officials say they’ve received multiple calls from the public concerning phone calls from individuals claiming to be members of the ISP. It has also been reported the

PONTIAC – The Livingston County Clerk’s Office is in need of election judges for the general primary election in March. Clerk Kristy Masching says the county is experiencing a shortage and they want to get the word out now to residents. To qualify you must be a registered voter.

  PONTIAC, Ill. (AP) — A suspended state corrections officer has pleaded not guilty in the Christmas Day shootings of his wife, adult son and another man in Cullom. Fifty-three-year-old Clifford Brewer is charged with six counts of first-degree murder. He remains in custody Thursday in

CHICAGO (AP) — Wire fraud charges have been filed against a suburban Chicago man accused of stealing millions of dollars to fund a high-roller lifestyle in Las Vegas. Robert Gorodetsky of Northbrook, Illinois is accused in U.S. District Court in Chicago of stealing nearly $10 million from a

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois state prosecutors say the first of the four Chicago sexual abuse cases against R. Kelly that they’ll take to trial involves a hairdresser who alleges that Kelly tried to force himself on her during a 2003 appointment. Cook County prosecutors told the judge their

CHICAGO (AP) — The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office has determined that last month’s death of rapper Juice WRLD was the result of an accidental overdose of the opioid oxycodone and codeine. The rapper whose given name was Jarad Anthony Higgins went into convulsions at Midway

CHICAGO (AP) — Amtrak is getting rid of a pricing policy that resulted in a $25,000 travel bill for a group of wheelchair-bound activists heading to Bloomington-Normal, Illinois from Chicago. The passenger rail agency told Chicago-based Access Living its policy was to charge extra to