Pritzker to sign Illinois budget, income tax measure
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker is scheduled to sign the state budget and legislation related to enacting a graduated income tax in Illinois. Pritzker’s office says he will sign the measures Wednesday afternoon at the Thompson
Jackson County man sentenced for Aggravated Battery
MURPHYSBORO, IL. (WJPF) – A Jackson County man has been sentenced to 3 years behind bars after violating the probation he originally received for an Aggravated Battery conviction. In June 2016, 27-year-old Daniel Brooks hit another man
Man convicted of threatening school shooting given probation, credit for time served
MARION, IL. (WJPF) – A Marion man convicted on charges related to threats he made to commit a school shooting has received probation. 22-year-old Treston Miller was sentenced Tuesday to 2 ½ years probation and given credit
Jury expected next week in Chinese scholar’s slaying trial
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge overseeing the death-penalty trial of an ex-University of Illinois student charged with kidnapping and killing a visiting Chinese scholar says a jury should be in place by early next week. Wednesday
Illinois, Lake County sue silicone plant after fatal blast
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — Illinois and Lake County are suing the owner of a Chicago-area silicone factory that exploded last month, seeking to force the company to identify the nature and extent of chemical pollution in the
Climate experts: Illinois records 3rd-wettest May on record
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — State climate experts say Illinois had the third wettest May on record and it was the sixth-consecutive month with above-average rainfall. The Illinois State Climatologist Office says preliminary average statewide precipitation during May
Pritzker activates additional guardsmen to battle floods
FILE: Fields of corn covered by flooding waters of the Mississippi River (Courtesy: Robert Kaufmann/FEMA) GRAFTON, Ill. (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker has deployed an additional 200 National Guard troops to southern Illinois to monitor rising