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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Agriculture announced that it will continue to enforce emergency rules prohibiting the sale or exhibiting of poultry and poultry products at swap meets, exhibitions, flea markets, and auction markets to prevent the spread of avian influenza. The

A suspect is still at large while New York City Police officers continue the search for a gunman who shot and killed a subway passenger, in what investigators describe as an unprovoked attack. Emergency responders attended to the victim at the scene, and he was transported to Bellevue Hospital,

A shipment of infant formula arrived in Indianapolis on Sunday, in the hopes of helping to alleviate the nationwide formula shortage. A C-17 cargo plane that originated in Switzerland was trucked to Germany where it was loaded with the formula and flown to the United States. The shipment contains

  UNDATED – More baby formula has entered the United States to help address the nationwide shortage. 35 tons arrived Sunday in Indianapolis from Germany to be distributed around the U.S. to families who have babies intolerant of protein in cows milk. Locally, facilities like the

  CHICAGO – Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the Illinois Banking Development Districts Act into law on Friday. The legislation creates a new incentive program for the creation of bank branches in underserved communities. Banks and local governments in Illinois will jointly create a plan for

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Employment Security announced that the unemployment rate fell to 4.6 percent based on preliminary data provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The state’s unemployment rate was 1.0 percentage point higher than the national unemployment rate

  STREATOR – The city of Streator has received plenty of applications for its next police chief, since the announcement of Chief Robert Turner’s retirement. Turner has been Streator Police Chief since January of 2021. Turner has been with the department for over 25 years. The city

OGLESBY – Illinois Valley Community College’s new computer networking and information technology program coordinator Garrick Whitehead is committed to the success of students and others. He was hired April 14th and will work alongside cybersecurity instructor Nancy McDonnell. “With

PERU – The 7th Annual TBM Avenger Reunion & Salute to Veterans is underway at the Illinois Valley Regional Airport in Peru. Dozens of vintage aircraft are on display on the ground and in the sky all weekend. Saturday night a pyrotechnic display is planned, plus a number of events to