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Stateville may close as early as September under Pritzker prison plan
Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois, near Joliet, could close as early as September under a plan laid out by Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration. Top officials with the Illinois Department of Corrections testified in front of a key panel of state lawmakers earlier this month. The 12 members on the General Assembly’s Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability face a mid-June deadline to make a recommendation on the governor’s plan to close and rebuild a pair of prisons in central Illinois and in Chicago’s south suburbs.
Manhunt in Western Springs ends after homeowner holds suspect at gunpoint in backyard: prosecutors
WILLOW SPRINGS, Ill. - Two Chicago men are accused of stealing two chainsaws from a truck before leading police on a high-speed chase through the Chicago suburbs Wednesday afternoon. Kawann Moore, 39, has been charged with one count of burglary, one count of aggravated fleeing and eluding a police officer...
Cook County man faces gun, drug-related charges following high-speed crash in Palatine
PALATINE - A suburban man was arrested for gun and drug-related charges following a crash in Palatine last Thursday. Darius Redmond, 22, of Palatine, was traveling as a passenger in a black SUV on May 9 at 10:30 a.m. when the driver of the vehicle led police on a high-speed chase before crashing into other cars.
Lansing History: Ridge Road was once a Potawatomi trail
LANSING, Ill. (May 16, 2024) – From a lonely Potawatomi on horseback in the 1800s, to the thousands of vehicles today, Ridge Road has quite a history. Ridge Road, or 182nd Street, runs east-west through the center of Lansing, following an ancient shoreline of Lake Michigan. An actual ridge, the road rests atop a 25-foot-high elongated berm of sand and gravel deposited by the receding lake. The ridge was once a prominent trail traversed by tribes native to the Chicago region.
Win some cash! Enter the Cook County cicada photo contest
OAK PARK, Ill. — If you live in the western suburbs, here’s your chance to win some money off of this year’s cicada invasion. The Western Cook County Illinois Convention and Visitors Bureau is holding a contest to see who can snap the best pictures of the cicadas that have emerged across Illinois this summer.
Anonymous Illinois Man Scoops up $4.1M Jackpot
The Illinois Lottery has handed a $4.1 million jackpot to a lucky local player. This is notably the third-largest prize that the lottery in the Prairie State has handed this year. The winning ticket was purchased at the BP gas station in McCook, around 14 miles south of Chicago. As...
Cicero Public Library Employees Claim Frustration with “Toxic Work Environment”
Editor’s Note: Names that include an asterisk(*) are pseudonyms for sources due to fear of retaliation. Over the last two decades, the Cicero Public Library has been offering educational programs to the community, such as their Seed Library and one-on-one tech tutorials to help people prepare to work from home.
Worth vehicle sticker applications ‘lost’ in the mail
Worth Village Clerk Bonnie Price said that even though application forms for village vehicle stickers were sent out to the post office last month residents were still waiting to receive those applications. “We have been doing this for 15 years,” Price said during the Worth Village Board meeting May 7....
Bolingbrook Man Charged In Move Over Law After ISP Trooper Car Hit
An Illinois State Police trooper is recovering following a crash on I-55 in Will County. Authorities say the trooper’s stationary squad car was hit by a Toyota Corolla Monday night north of Route 59. The ISP squad car was parked on the right shoulder on Interstate 55 northbound near milepost 252, north of Route 59, with emergency lights activated, handling a traffic crash. The trooper was sitting inside of the squad car with his seatbelt fastened when his squad car was struck by a gray Toyota Corolla. The trooper was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the Corolla, 31-year-old Asante Williams of Bolingbrook, was cited for the Move Over Law, Failure to Reduce Speed to Avoid an Accident and Improper Lane Usage.
New Avenue resurfacing begins May 20
The Illinois Department of Transportation announced today that a patching and resurfacing of New Avenue, from State Street (Illinois 171) to south of Romeo Road/135th Street, in Lockport, will require intermittent daytime lane closures beginning, weather permitting, Monday, May 20. The $1.5 million project, which consists of resurfacing the 1.7-mile...
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