Homeowners in Aurora help test for high lead levels in water
Since 2018, the city says more than 3,400 lead service lines have been replaced in neighborhoods impacted with high lead levels in the water.
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Since 2018, the city says more than 3,400 lead service lines have been replaced in neighborhoods impacted with high lead levels in the water.
Two teenagers were charged with murder Tuesday in the killings of five members of an Illinois family who were shot at three different locations.
Ald. Desmon Yancy (5th) said that permanent street sweeping signs have been installed, and now in Hyde Park, he's requested the city go a step further.
Chief meteorologist Albert Ramon is tracking the building heat in First Alert Weather.
The Illinois Department of Public Health said there are now more than 215 confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis, an illness from the parasite cyclospora, statewide.
The Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting over 215 cases statewide amid outbreaks in other states.
A pass through the Illinois toll system already costs anywhere from 30 cents to $1.50 per trip with an iPass and more without it.
The increase would be about 45 cents for regular cars and a 30% toll increase for commercial trucks.
Illinois state police say the two suspected shooters are 15 and 16 years old. One of those suspects is related to one of the people killed.
One of the suspects displayed a handgun and demanded money from people in the room. Police said one round was fired, but no one was hit.
At 9:45 p.m. Saturday, Munster police were called to the 9300 block of Chestnut Lane, where they found a woman with a facial gunshot wound. She was taken to an area hospital for treatment, police said.
When officers arrived, they found that a home had been broken into and found a woman inside. The woman refused to come out, prompting a response from the Aurora police Crisis Negotiations and Special Response Team.
The victim was taken to Silver Cross Hospital with life-threatening injuries before later being transferred to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood for further treatment.
Arriving officers found evidence of forced entry at the home and encountered a woman inside the residence who refused to come out, Aurora police said.
Aurora Police said after more than an hour of negotiations, officers took the woman into custody without further incident and she was taken to an area hospital for evaluation.
Deputy Chief Craig Neal said the shooting was an isolated incident.
The two-year project is helping neighbors in their time of need.
The City of Evanston gave the community group $100,000 in grant money to make it all happen.
The old pavilion closed in September of last year for the $70 million overhaul, financed by donors.
Illinois American Water and Aqua Illinois are both seeking rate increases that would raise monthly bills by as much as $28, while their parent companies seek regulatory approval to merge — a deal a consumer watchdog says would give one company control of nearly all regulated water customers in the state.
As a bill to regulate e-bikes and e-scooters sits on Gov. JB Pritzker's desk awaiting his signature, other state leaders are trying to spread the word of what parents should know if their kids want one.
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld an Illinois ban on semiautomatic weapons, keeping in place a law passed largely in response to a deadly Independence Day parade shooting.
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Illinois ban on assault weapons is constitutional.
Michigan is experiencing its largest outbreak of a parasitic infection, called cyclosporiasis, that causes severe diarrhea.
The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from several states secured a right-to-repair settlement Wednesday with agriculture equipment giant Deere & Co. — commonly known as John Deere — that requires the company to let farmers and independent shops fix their own equipment.
