• The cause of death for a Stateline area man reportedly killed by his son has been released. Rock County Officials say Bruce Hemmy was killed by blunt force trauma consistent with being hit with a hammer. Investigators say 30-year old Peter Hemmy turned himself into Beloit Police shortly after the incident took place.
  • The Forest City Beautiful initiative has received a grant of $25,000  from the community foundation of Northern Illinois on Tuesday. The initiative aims to create and maintain beautiful landscapes in downtown Rockford. The organization believes if the landscape of Rockford can be improved they can attract more visitors to the area. The Rockford Area Convention and Visitor Bureau and Rockford Sharefest heads the Forest City Beautiful initiative.
  • Winnebago County State's Attorney Joe Bruscato will travel to Springfield tomorrow to insure one of the city's most notorious killers stays behind bars. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board will hold a hearing for Simon Peter Nelson on whether he should be granted parole. Nelson was convicted of killing his six children and the family dog with a knife and rubber mallet back in 1978.
  • Lawyers representing 55 Illinois Department of Transportation workers laid off last week say the employees should be able to continue working for the agency in their staff assistant positions. Officials state the employees are members of the Teamsters union. Their positions were criticized by a state inspector general's report and are at the crux of a federal lawsuit alleging illegal hiring at the agency.
  • Candidates for governor and U.S. Senate in Illinois are speaking this afternoon at a farm near Bloomington. Governor Pat Quinn and his Republican challenger Bruce Rauner and Senator Dick Durbin and his Republican opponent Jim Oberweis won't address each other directly during the Illinois Farm Bureau forum.
  • Governor Pat Quinn signed a bill this week that is designed to streamline the medication coverage approval by insurance companies, which takes effect immediately. It guarantees that a prior authorization request for medications must be approved or denied by an insurance company within 72 hours
  • A suburban Chicago man accused of stalking a DuPage County circuit judge has been sentenced to five years in prison. Fifty-eight-year-old John Euwema of Western Springs was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to stalking and interference with the duty of a judicial officer. An investigation last year by the State's Attorney's Office led authorities to Euwema's place of business where ammunition, newspaper articles relating to the judge and a photograph of a family member were found.

 

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