Articles filed under Illinois
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Illinois district defends having school on King dayJan 22, 2019 6:00 am - WINNEBAGO, Ill. (AP) - The superintendent of a northern Illinois school district is defending a decision to hold classes on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to make up for a s...
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Illinois congress members seek 1908 Race Riot designationJan 22, 2019 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois members of Congress are seeking National Historic Monument status for the Springfield site of the 1908 Race Riots. Republican U.S. Rep....
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Vietnam vets reunite in Texas, mourn soldier killed in 1970Jan 22, 2019 6:00 am - SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The last time these soldiers of Bravo Company, 2nd Platoon, were together, they were tromping through the jungles of Vietnam on enemy patrol. The San ...
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Police seek man suspected in fatal shooting at Orland Park MallJan 22, 2019 12:00 am - Authorities are seeking a man suspected of fatally shooting a man and wounding a bystander at a suburban Chicago mall. Orland Park police say the suspect and the victim ...
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Ideas needed for plaza around Illinois' Black Hawk statueJan 21, 2019 6:00 am - OREGON, Ill. (AP) - State officials are asking the public for help as they plan for a plaza around the 107-year-old Black Hawk statue in northern Illinois. ...
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Illinois man accused of letting 11-year-old drive to schoolJan 21, 2019 6:00 am - ROUND LAKE PARK, Ill. (AP) - An arrest warrant has been issued for a northern Illinois man who police say allowed an 11-year-old relative to drive herself to school in a...
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Crews search for teen missing in Lake Michigan during stormJan 21, 2019 6:00 am - WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) - Authorities were searching the Lake Michigan shoreline for a teenager who went missing in the water near Waukegan during a winter storm. Fire offic...
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Judge: Illinois court running out of money due to shutdownJan 21, 2019 6:00 am - BENTON, Ill. (AP) - The chief federal judge for Southern Illinois says if a partial government shutdown continues past early February the court may run out of money to p...
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Rauner administration reduced number of state patronage jobsJan 21, 2019 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A special counsel to former Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner says his administration reclassified thousands of state jobs that were once exempt from a...
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EXCHANGE: An SIUC physicist's theory is confirmedJan 20, 2019 6:00 am - CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) - In 1968, an SIU Carbondale physicist named Walter Henneberger published a paper suggesting that an electron could be freed from an atom and bound...