Afternoon News Update: Friday October 3
- The Rock County corner has identified the woman who died inside a car fire on Wednesday and the death is being ruled as a suicide. 60-year-old Karen Brookings died from asphyxiation due to smoke inhalation as well as massive thermal trama. Her body was discovered at around 930 Wednesday morning on a dead end road near the corner of Silver Maple and Arbor Ridge Way.
- More than 200 more flights have been canceled today at Chicago's O'Hare Airport and Midway has had half-hour delays. Michael Huerta, the head of the FAA, is visiting the air traffic control center in Aurora that was damaged by fire a week ago. Repairs are continuing and are expected to take another full week until everything is back to normal.
- A northern Illinois animal rescue organization has announced it's trying to find new homes for 75 abandoned horses in Kane County. Barrington-based Hooved Animal Rescue and Protection Society is working to find homes for quarter horses that have lived in inadequate conditions for two years. Rescuers have less than a month to get the horses off the leased property in Hampshire.
- DeKalb County authorities say a man going through a contentious divorce allegedly tried to frame his estranged wife by planting drugs and a gun in her vehicle. 35-year-old Nicholas Krengiel of Kingston allegedly tried to discredit the woman by having someone put the contraband in her car. Police say they received a tip on Aug. 14 and found four grams of crack cocaine and a firearm in a vehicle belonging to Krengiel's wife. DeKalb police say they learned Krengiel allegedly paid an associate to obtain the gun and drugs and instructed him on how and when to plant the items. Krengiel was arrested Wednesday and faces criminal drug conspiracy charges.
- Bison are returning to a grassland habitat in northern Illinois. About 50 bison will roam 1,500 acres on a Lee County preserve. The herd will come from preserves in Iowa and Missouri.
- Good news for residents of Roscoe who raise chickens. The Roscoe Village Board of Trustees approved an ordinance, by a vote of 4-2, that will amend the zoning laws to allow Roscoe residents to raise chickens outdoors in their backyard. The ordinance lets residence have a maximum of six chickens, and they must be caged.
- Illinois Republicans are mounting a campaign to purge ineligible people from voter lists and recruit their own election judges before November. Republicans have allocated $1 million in Cook County alone to examine voter rolls in Democrat-heavy Chicago. Efforts to go through voter rolls also are underway in two counties east of St. Louis. Republicans say they're guarding against voter fraud and responding to Democratic maneuvering to boost turnout.
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