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A 13-year-old boy in Marissa, Illinois survived being sucked a half-mile down a storm drain during a flood that took place in the state this past weekend. “It was raining, and we were just out here playing — I was going to grab a ball and went underneath,” said the teen, Sebastian Calderon, according to WGN. “When I first […]
Two adults and a child were killed after their vehicle was hit by a Metra train struck on Sunday in Chicago. A train heading north into the city struck the vehicle just after 5 p.m. on the city’s Far South Side and pushed it a half-mile before it came to a complete stop, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The force […]
The Illinois House approved a bill this week that would ban police from lying to youth during interrogations. The legislation makes Illinois the first state to ban police from giving youth suspects false information during questioning, a practice that has been linked to higher rates of wrongful convictions and false confessions, ABC News reports. Senate Bill 2122, […]
Illinois authorities are reviewing a video in which a Black high school football player is seen being harassed by his teammates. The now-viral footage, which was reportedly filmed last Thursday, appears to show the teen in a locker room surrounded by his peers, one of whom tells the teen to get in a locker filled […]
There’s no better way to start a new year than with a clean record – literally. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker announced on Thursday that nearly half a million non-felony cannabis-related arrest records were expunged in the state, and thousands of low-level cannabis convictions had been pardoned. Almost 500,000 arrest records were expunged by Illinois State […]
A shooting at an Illinois bowling alley has left three people dead and three others injured. According to WREX, the deadly incident took place shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday at Don Carter Lanes in Rockford. It’s reported that at least two teenagers were among those who were shot, but it’s unclear if the victims were employees, […]
An Illinois woman was opening a package from Kohl’s when she found a COVID-19 test specimen. The Associated Press reports that Andrea Ellis had ordered flags for her grandmother’s garden from Kohl’s. She was wrapping Christmas gifts at her aunt’s house in East Moline, Illinois when she tore the padded envelope open to take out the […]
An Ohio man has been sentenced to two years in prison for pretending to be a long-missing child from Illinois. According to ABC, U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett handed the sentence to 25-year-old Brian Michael Rini on Tuesday. He also received one year of probation. “I wish that I could just take it back,” Rini said […]
It was like a holiday miracle for Debra Mejeur. Last week, the Michigan resident received a call from an Illinois animal shelter informing her they had located her black Labrador retriever named Lola. It was pleasant, and fairly shocking surprise, as Mejeur had lost the service dog years ago during a family trip to the suburbs of […]
Since 2010, per a new report, Trump has had an estimated $287 million in debt forgiven. The majority of that amount was in connection with a development for a Chicago skyscraper. The debt and related maneuvering is detailed in a new report from the New York Times, which revealed on Tuesday after obtaining tax records […]
