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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Officials staffing the state Emergency Operations Center in Springfield will be monitoring flooding in southern Illinois and will prepare to deploy assistance should local officials request it. Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Illinois Emergency Management Agency Director Alicia

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Retired Illinois state Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie will be the first recipient of a new award to honor female legislators. Currie will be presented the Woman Legislator of the Year award March 5 at an event hosted by the Illinois House Democratic and Senate Women’s

STREATOR – ComEd is helping Streator go green with an LED streetlight program. Spokesman Jeff Hetrick with ComEd says the goal of the program is to switch out all of the high pressure sodium and mercury vapor streetlights with LED lights. He reported they have replaced nearly half of the

DETROIT (AP) — Fiat Chrysler says it’s cutting about 1,400 jobs at a plant in Belvidere, Illinois, that makes Jeep Cherokees — a move the automaker says is unrelated to a major investment in the Detroit area that could add 6,500 workers. The automaker made the announcement about

CHICAGO (AP) — A former federal prosecutor and a county board leader will face each other in a runoff to become Chicago’s first black female mayor after leading a large field Tuesday that included a member of the Daley family that has dominated the city’s politics for much of the

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin National Guard officials said Tuesday they’re looking into whether to punish an Illinois congressman who belongs to the Wisconsin detachment for criticizing Gov. Tony Evers’ decision to withdraw troops from the U.S. southern border. Republican Rep.

LASALLE – Officials, community members and representatives of the University of Illinois gathered to support the grand opening ceremony of U of I’s education center and community teaching kitchen in LaSalle, Tuesday. The pilot extension located in downtown LaSalle on First Street, is

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has been appointed to the Council of Governors to advise the federal government on national security, disaster relief and the National Guard. Pritzker’s office announced Monday that the Democrat was chosen for the 10-member bipartisan

DANVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Police in central Indiana say a man has confessed to killing a woman in Illinois when he lived there more than four years ago. Danville police say 24-year-old Connor Warren Scott of Danville walked into the police station Sunday night and confessed to killing 20-year-old

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago judge says “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett can travel out-of-state to meet his lawyers while he’s free on bond on charges he falsely reported being attacked by two masked men. Anne Kavanagh is a spokeswoman for Smollett’s attorneys, who say