Articles filed under Illinois
-
Illinois Senate proposes $15 minimum wageJan 30, 2019 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Business interests are suggesting ways to minimize the impact of increasing Illinois' minimum wage while Democrats in the Legislature rush to se...
-
Thousands without power as temperatures plummet in IllinoisJan 30, 2019 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - ComEd says crews have restored power to more than 42,000 customers and are working to restore another 9,400 as double-digit subzero temperatures hit Illin...
-
Bitter cold breaks daily temperature records across IllinoisJan 30, 2019 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Wind chills dipped as low as 56 degrees below zero in northern Illinois as bitter cold weather moved into Illinois . The National Weather Servic...
-
75-year-old man struck, killed by snow plow in LibertvilleJan 29, 2019 6:00 am - LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. (AP) - The Lake County coroner says a 75-year-old man died after being struck by a Libertyville snow plow. Lake County Coroner Howard Cooper said Tues...
-
Operations at Chicago airports little affected by coldJan 29, 2019 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Operations at Chicago's two major airports continue despite the frigid temperatures blanketing the state. By late Tuesday, 284 flights had been cancelled ...
-
Report: Powerful Illinois speaker Madigan recorded in probeJan 29, 2019 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago newspaper reported Tuesday that a lengthy federal court affidavit says the FBI secretly recorded Illinois' powerful House speaker in 2014 discus...
-
Lincoln library, museum, to tell history through artifactsJan 29, 2019 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is launching a new educational program designed tell the history of the nation's 16th presid...
-
Cold forces Thursday closing of public schoolsJan 29, 2019 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The frigid weather blanketing Illinois means Chicago Public School students will get to spend another day at home. District officials announced Tuesday th...
-
Mississippi lighting factory to close after business soldJan 29, 2019 6:00 am - OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (AP) - A.L.P. Lighting Components is closing a 68-worker factory in northwest Mississippi, after it sold the business to another company. A.L.P. noti...
-
Plunging temperatures send Illinois lawmakers homeJan 29, 2019 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Predicted severe weather conditions have forced the Illinois House to cancel sessions the rest of the week. The House met Tuesday and adopted ru...