And now, the funniest and most cringe-inducing thing you will see today. Illinois, the Land of Lincoln, has just passed a bill in both chambers of its legislature replacing the term “offenders” with “justice-impacted individuals.” I’m still grappling with the sheer absurdity of it all. The Washington Examiner quoted […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — In Illinois, 114,000 people are banned from owning guns because of legal tangles or mental health issues – three-quarters of them haven’t surrendered their firearms, according to data the Cook County sheriff will present Thursday. Sheriff Tom Dart is seeking $10 million from state lawmakers to tackle what he calls in […]
LAWRENCE, Kan. — A Kansas judge on Friday ordered University of Illinois basketball standout Terrence Shannon Jr. to stand trial on a rape charge following testimony from a woman who said she was “terrified” as she was being assaulted. Shannon, 23, of Champaign, Illinois, is accused of committing sexual assault on Sept. 9, in Lawrence, […]
CHICAGO — Child sexual abuse at Illinois juvenile detention centers was pervasive and systemic for decades, according to disturbing accounts in a lawsuit filed Monday by 95 men and women housed at the youth centers as children. The lawsuit details alleged incidents of abuse from 1996 to 2017, including gang rape, forced oral sex, beatings […]
CHICAGO — A 22-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in a stabbing rampage that killed 4 people in a northern Illinois city, authorities said Thursday. Winnebago County State’s Attorney J. Hanley said during a news conference that Christian Soto will be in court Thursday afternoon to hear the charges and for a judge […]
Jussie Smollett is back in the news after the Illinois Supreme Court agreed to hear his appeal of his conviction on charges relating to faking a hate crime in 2019. Soros-backed State’s Attorney Kim Foxx originally dropped all charges against Smollett after a Chicago police investigation revealed that Smollett […]
ROCKFORD, Ill. — Four people were killed and five were hurt in stabbings in northern Illinois on Wednesday, authorities said. A suspect is in police custody and was being questioned Wednesday afternoon, according to Rockford Police Chief Carla Redd. She said one of the people who was wounded remained in critical condition. “My heart goes […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Supreme Court will hear an appeal of actor Jussie Smollett‘s disorderly conduct conviction for staging a racist and homophobic attack against himself in 2019, then lying to Chicago police about it. The court on Wednesday accepted the appeal from Smollett, formerly a cast member of the television drama “Empire.” It […]
There’s nothing quite like it in nature. Once every 17 years like clockwork, cicadas emerge from the ground and raise a cacophony of noise that disturbs the peacefulness of summer for many of us. Scientists tell us that we eventually get used to it and catalog it as background noise. […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois schools have taken steps to weather an acute shortage of teachers with the state’s help, but a survey released Tuesday points to ways to improve training, support and incentives for classroom instructors. The annual study by the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools shows that 9 in 10 schools report […]
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