ISP: Info from more than 2,000 FOID cardholders ‘possibly’ compromised in hack
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (IRN) — Illinois State Police are notifying about 2,000 Illinoisans with Firearm Owners Identification cards that their personal information may have been compromised in a hack of the agency’s Police FOID card portal. The backlog-plagued
1 Chicago officer killed, 1 wounded in traffic stop shooting
CHICAGO (AP) — A 29-year-old female police officer in Chicago was killed and another officer was seriously wounded in an exchange of gunfire during a traffic stop, officials said Sunday, the city’s mayor later citing the shooting
Western Illinois town disbands police force due to budget
EAST GALESBURG, Ill. (AP) — A community in western Illinois has officially disbanded its police department over budget concerns. East Galesburg has been without its police force since November of 2019, when the entire department resigned.
COVID-19 safeguards among new Illinois State Fair features
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Among several new features at this year’s Illinois State Fair will be an unwelcome one: COVID-19. As face mask and vaccination resistance simmer, the more transmissible delta virus variant spreads and there’s a marked increase in cases
Brookport man killed in Pope County ATV accident
POPE COUNTY, Ill. (WJPF) — A Brookport man has been killed in an ATV accident. Illinois State Police say at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday , the 37-year-old victim was driving a Polaris Razor west on Hamletburg