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An American bison has been spotted grazing in western Lake and eastern McHenry counties. State regulators on Wednesday selected a Las Vegas-based company as their choice to run the long-planned Waukegan casino. An electronic billboard once rejected by the Des Plaines city council is now approved. A tunnel under Route 45 connects two Lake County forest preserves.

Flush with unexpected revenue, DuPage County will start the new fiscal year with a $474.3 million budget that pays off debt early, holds property tax rates steady and adds new positions to the county workforce.

Best equipment to protect themselves. they want to go home at thend of the day to their families. were putting them through as fast as we can. >> reporter: len light created the first bear cat in pitsfield, massachusetts nearly 20 years ago and has been cranking them out ever since. built on a ford chassis, the entire vehicle is crafted from sheets of armored steel, cut on huge tables, welded and bent into walls, doors, gun turrets. it takes four weeks to finish each bear cat, capable of navigat...

A bomb, but they have to treat it like it is. the other part that was interesting, law enforcement got an address in redland, california, these people had come up some way in the investigation as someone they should surveil. and if im not mistaken, the chief said they went there to surveil it. so while they were surveilling it, the target vehicle, the black suv, moved. and, of course, they would follow it, but it moved back toward san bernardino, and back toward the center. >> jim, let me stop y...

Out of each side of those trucks and thats where the robots come down the ramps of the trucks. each one has a robot. youve got a bear cat. looks like a bear cat vehicle which is an armored s.w.a.t. vehicle just beyond that and two robots are together, you know, working the area. looking for the device, trying to clear it, whatever they might have dropped or thrown and then maybe the suspects vehicle. theyll look in it. they have a camera with a telescope and can go up and look down inside the ca...