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CHICAGO (AP) — A new Illinois lottery game will generate money to help the families of police officers killed or severely hurt in the line of duty. Lawmakers overwhelming approved legislation to create the new scratch-off lottery game earlier this year. Gov. Bruce Rauner signed it into law on

ATLANTA (AP) — An Illinois man who worked as a spokesman for a “darknet” marketplace used for illegal online sales is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in Atlanta. Ronald L. Wheeler III of Streamwood, Illinois, pleaded guilty in March to a charge of conspiracy to commit

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A foundation formed by Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner two years ago to fundraise for repairing the state fairgrounds is falling short of its $2 million to $3 million annual target. The latest financial report filed by the Illinois Fairgrounds Foundation shows income in 2017

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The owners and operators of a tourist boat that sank this month in Missouri, killing 17 people, put profits over people’s safety when they decided to put the Ride the Ducks boat on a lake despite design problems and warnings of severe weather, a lawsuit

LAKE HOLIDAY – A woman was taken via helicopter from the scene of a crash Saturday evening near Lake Holiday. According to the LaSalle County Sheriff’s Office at 10:20 p.m. they were called to rural LaSalle County South East of Lake Holiday for a single vehicle accident. The driver of

AMBOY – An early morning single vehicle accident has sent five patients to the hospital in Lee County.    According to the Amboy Fire Department, they, along with Sublette Fire and EMS were called to US RT 30 and Pine Hill Road for vehicle in a corn field.   Dixon Fire and EMS arrived at

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A suspect in the 2017 kidnapping and slaying of a University of Illinois scholar from China wants to know if President Donald Trump spoke to Chinese officials about the case when he visited China in November. Prosecutors revealed in a federal-court filing Friday that

ELGIN, Ill. (AP) — A Post Office custodian has returned a World War II letter he recently found while moving storage cabinets to the son of the soldier who wrote it in 1944 from France. Army veteran Edward Gathman kept the letter as a memento while working at the Elgin Post Office. He left the

OLMSTED, Ill. (AP) — Army Corps of Engineers officials are expected this fall to partially open new lock-and-dam system on the Ohio River between Illinois and Kentucky after 30 years of work. Plans are that ships and barges be able to start using the Olmsted Locks and Dam in October, replacing

CHICAGO (AP) — The body of a missing Chicago sailor has been recovered in Lake Michigan one week after falling off a yacht during a race. Chicago police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed 53-year-old Jon Santarelli’s body was spotted mid-day Saturday, about six