Afternoon news update: July 7, 2015

A former Rockford abortion clinic will now be the city police department’s district two headquarters. The Rockford City Council has secured the Turner School building on Broadway with a 10-1 vote of approval Monday. The building once housed the Northern Illinois Women's clinic. With the vote the police department is one step closer to getting out of the Public Safety Building, which is slated for demolition.
A federal judge says Illinois must keep funding child-protection services while the governor and lawmakers haggle over the budget. The ACLU went to court to ask the judge to keep money flowing to the Department of Children and Family Services even though the agency and the state comptroller agreed that workers should keep getting paid.
Former suburban Chicago police sergeant Drew Peterson is due in court ahead of his trial on charges of plotting to kill a prosecutor. A hearing in the case is scheduled Tuesday in the southern Illinois county where Peterson is imprisoned. Peterson has pleaded not guilty to charges of soliciting an unidentified prison inmate to kill Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow.
The area housing market saw its biggest month since the housing recession. The Rockford Area Realtors Association says a total of 460 homes and condos were sold in Winnebago, Boone and Ogle Counties in June, up 14% from July of 2014. The three-month rolling average price hit more than 10% higher than last June's average. It's the highest monthly average in the last 10 months.
One person is dead in Boone County after a car crashed into tree this morning. Police say that a car was traveling east on Quail Trap Road near Caledonia but the victim lost control near a curve and struck a tree before rolling over. Police have not identified the victim at this time.
Traffic over the State St. Bridge is reduced to single lanes of travel to allowing striping to make the bridge more pedestrian and bicycle friendly. The change will be temporary over the summer and fall months, and will return to a four-lane bridge on October 31st.

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