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STREATOR – The Streator Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the location regulations of potential recreational cannabis sales in the city. In December, council members voted to allow cannabis businesses within the city, but it is up to the commission to make any recommendations

OTTAWA – Norris Drive on US 6 west in Ottawa will be redone by this year. Dave Broviak, Studies Engineer for the Illinois Department of Transportation says the project will take place from the west side of town about a mile west of Boyce Memorial Drive all the way to the Fox River bridge

PERU – Heavy rainfall will develop into this weekend, before a winter storm watch that’s expected to create dangerous conditions. The National Weather Service already put places in north-central Illinois under a flood watch and the Federal Emergency Management Agency is encouraging

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway international airports have installed boxes where travelers can dispose of recreational marijuana before they board their flights. The cannabis amnesty boxes, as they’re called, were installed at each airport last week, just as legal

CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio man who claimed to be a child who disappeared at age 6 has pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft and will serve a sentence of two years in prison, minus time served. Twenty-four-year-old Brian Michael Rini, of Medina, will be on probation for a year at the end of

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago man is being held without bail for beating to death his 9-month-old son because the boy wouldn’t stop crying. Joshua Juarez is charged with first-degree murder in the Saturday death of Josue Juarez. The Cook County medical examiner determined the boy’s death was

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois House Republicans argued on Wednesday that they were left out of a monthslong review of the state’s burdensome property tax system and their ideas were dismissed. But the Democratic author of the report replied that the preliminary draft is still

CHICAGO (AP) — A judge has ordered Google to turn over a year’s worth of Jussie Smollett’s emails, private messages, photographs and other information to a special prosecutor who is investigating why the state’s attorney’s office abruptly dropped the case against the

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan said Wednesday that he was unaware of an apparently unreported rape in central Illinois that is referenced in a 2012 email written to the governor’s office by a close friend and powerful lobbyist. The Chicago Democrat, who is

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago authorities say a young boy walking with an adult outside a Lincoln Park nature museum was bitten by a coyote. Fire Department spokesman Larry Merritt says the attack on the 5-year-old occurred outside the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum on Wednesday. The boy was bitten