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Security cameras caught two thieves using hammers to break open a jewelry display case in the middle of Plaza Bonita Mall before they filled bags with...
For the most part, seven rural counties in west-central Illinois are seeing larger population declines than other areas of the state.
Leaders of five key industries in the region say the COVID-19 crisis forced them to innovate and has spurred permanent changes and some continuing struggles in the ways they do business.
National City’s police chief arrested a burglary suspect at gunpoint Wednesday morning. Footage shot by OnScene TV shows Chief Jose Tellez pointing his gun at a man on a city street, ordering him to “Get down! Now!” A uniformed officer quickly pulls up to the scene and runs a pair of handcuffs to the chief, who has the suspect prone on the ground. The suspect was one of three men believed to have been involved in an early morning break-in at a nearby locksmith kiosk. About 5:30 a.m., someone called 911 to report the burglary at the kiosk in South Bay Plaza, on East Plaza Boulevard at...
Now he hopes to have a new resource to harvest soon: wind. Why We Wrote This Progress within the clean energy sector may be pushing the debate about climate change toward irrelevance. Across the Midwest – from wind farms to R&D labs – farmers are finding climate action is good business. A new clean energy project – a 100-turbine wind farm here in Illinois’ Knox County – would generate tax revenue for the local school, fire department, and library, and offer an income stream to farmers who lease land to the project. For Mr. Bowman and many of his farming colleagues, tending soil and...