The Latest: Sanders plans Illinois visit ahead of primary
CHICAGO (AP) - The Latest on presidential candidates visiting Illinois (all times local):
2:45 p.m.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders plans to hold a rally in Chicago on Monday evening. The Vermont senator's campaign says he will be at Roosevelt University for a 10:30 p.m. program.
The Chicago stop will end a busy day for the candidate after jaunts to Ohio, North Carolina and Missouri.
More than 1,000 delegates in both parties are at stake on Tuesday when Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio vote.
Clinton now has 766 delegates to Bernie Sanders' 551, based on primaries and caucuses alone.
Including superdelegates - party leaders and elected officials who can support any candidate - Clinton's lead is even bigger: 1,231 to Sanders' 576.
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2:05 p.m.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is planning a sweep through Illinois a day ahead of the state's primary.
The Cruz campaign says the Texas senator will hold rallies Monday in Rockford, Glen Ellyn, Peoria, Decatur and Springfield.
More than 1,000 delegates in both parties are at stake on Tuesday when Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio vote.
According to an Associated Press count, Donald Trump leads the overall race for GOP delegates with 460. Cruz has 370, Rubio has 163 and Kasich has 63. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination.
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1:55 p.m.
Illinois State Police and the Chicago Police Department say they are reviewing videos and officer statements following the arrest of a CBS News journalist outside a Donald Trump campaign rally.
CBS News digital journalist Sopan Deb described his Friday arrest on the network's "Face the Nation" show Sunday. Deb says he was outside the venue shooting video of a man with a bloodied head being arrested and heard officers directing the crowd to clear the street.
He says he was shooting another scuffle when one or more officers pulled him down from behind and, in his words, "bashed my face into the street." He says an officer put his boot on his neck and handcuffed him as he told officers he had press credentials.
Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says the journalist was cited for resisting arrest.
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12:05 p.m.
Donald Trump is through one of three Sunday events after a rally at an airplane hangar in Bloomington, Illinois, that was much calmer than the Friday night rally in Chicago that was cancelled.
Trump called a man up on stage who was a legal immigrant, read poetry and was interrupted four times. He stuck around to greet supporters afterward.
It was his first event back in the state since the one in Chicago Friday night that Trump cancelled, he said, out of concern for supporters and protesters who packed the hall and later erupted into a melee.
An Associated Press reporter counted fewer than 30 people being removed from the airplane hangar, which officials said accommodated a capacity crowd of about 3,000.
Trump observed from the stage, "See. Nobody gets hurt."
Illinois' primary is Tuesday.
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11:30 a.m.
Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton plans to visit a Chicago union hall a day ahead of the Illinois primary.
The Clinton campaign says the candidate will hold a public event Monday morning at the Plumber's JAC Local Union 130 UA in Chicago.
Clinton is expected to discuss job creation and encourage Illinoisans to vote.
More than 1,000 delegates in both parties are at stake on Tuesday when Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio vote.
Clinton now has 766 delegates to Bernie Sanders' 551, based on primaries and caucuses alone.
Including superdelegates - party leaders and elected officials who can support any candidate - Clinton's lead is even bigger: 1,231 to Sanders' 576.
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11:00 a.m.
Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump is returning to Illinois after canceling a Friday night appearance in Chicago amid clashes between protesters and his supporters.
The mood was far more muted Sunday outside the Bloomington airport in central Illinois, where about 100 protesters gathered along an access road on an a foggy, overcast morning near the airplane hangar where Trump was scheduled to speak at 10 a.m. CST.
Some participants say they decided to drive the 130 miles from Chicago after the abrupt cancellation of that event. And some protesters say they felt emboldened to stand in a light but steady drizzle only after seeing reports of clashes in Ohio, Kansas City and elsewhere Saturday.
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8:50 a.m.
A large police presence is overseeing a rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Bloomington, Illinois.
The (Bloomington) Pantagraph reports (http://bit.ly/21pA25P ) officers from several law enforcement agencies are working together to staff the Sunday morning event.
Local anti-Trump activist Sonny Garcia says more than 1,000 people have indicated on a Facebook page that they plan to protest Trump's central Illinois campaign stop. Garcia has appealed for a peaceful demonstration.
On Friday night, Trump canceled a rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago after a large number of protesters showed up.
Some isolated confrontations took place afterward and police reported three men from Chicago and a 45-year-old woman from Michigan were arrested and charged for participating in a disturbance at the protest.
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7:25 a.m.
Chicago authorities say four people were charged after the protest against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The Chicago Police Department said in a news release sent Saturday night that the three men from Chicago and a 45-year-old woman from Michigan were arrested and charged for participating in a disturbance at the protest Friday night.
The large demonstration drew hundreds of people, and Trump canceled the rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Some scuffles and fistfights broke out inside. Outside, two officers were hurt.
Two of the men face felony charges of aggravated battery of a peace officer. All face misdemeanor charges of resisting or obstructing a peace officer.