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DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Several Iowa and Illinois counties hope to form a sprawling port district along the Mississippi River. Bakers say the plan would improve access to federal funding and aid business development. The Quad-City Times reports that organizers are working on getting governing

URBANA, Ill. (AP) — A judge has denied an Illinois man’s complaint that accused police officers of retaliating against him after he settled a separate excessive force lawsuit against a former officer from another city. U.S. Magistrate Judge Eric Long decided last Friday that Urbana

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is denouncing as “horrific” a newly disclosed 2012 email in which a powerful lobbyist cryptically suggests knowledge of cover-ups involving a rape and shady hiring practices.  The Democratic governor said he referred the email, written

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities on the hunt for coyotes in downtown Chicago after two reported attacks, including one where passersby said they had to pull a wild canine off of a 6-year-old boy who was bitten in the head, captured one animal Thursday night on the city’s North Side. One expert

CHICAGO (AP) – Federal prosecutors in Chicago say a judge was too lenient in sentencing a man to 16 years in prison for plotting to detonate a car outside a crowded bar. In a court filing made public Thursday, prosecutors ask the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate the sentence

STREATOR – Streator Plan Commission will hold a public hearing on the location regulations of potential recreations cannabis sales in the city. In December, council members elected to allow cannabis businesses within the city, but its up to plan commission to make any

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