Afternoon news update: June 24, 2015

A body was found in the Rock River around eight o’clock last night near Shorewood Park in Loves Park. Winnebago County Coroner Sue Fiduccia says she has reason to believe the body could be that of 24 year-old Antonio Little, a Rockford YMCA employee who’s been missing since May. But an official identification won’t come until after an autopsy is performed.
Work crews from seven communities are helping with the cleanup in Coal City after Monday night's EF-3 tornado. The Grundy County community has some of the worst damage from the nine twisters that hit the northern part of the state. More bad weather is possible in the region tonight. Clean up continues in Woodhaven Lakes campground today as well where an EF-2 hit Monday night. State rescue crews are still searching throughout the area looking for survivors of the storm.
ComEd has restored power to 90% of its more than 61,000 customers affected by Monday night's storms. Most of their impacted customers were in the surrounding areas of Dixon, Sterling and Coal City. Nearly 600 ComEd crews worked throughout the night Monday and Tuesday to restore service to storm-impacted customers.
A 69-year-old man has been charged in the stabbing death of a man found in a Beloit parking lot. Percy Oliver is accused of killing 51-year-old David Banks of Beloit. Banks' body was found Saturday. Authorities believe the men knew each other.
The game of "is this really the governor's proposal?" continues in the Illinois House. The House voted Tuesday on two pieces of legislation similar to what the governor has discussed, including the turning the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity into a public-private partnership. State Rep. Ron Sandack (R-Downers Grove) took issue with an amendment to set a three-year sunset on the plan. "This isn't the governor's bill, this is your bill now, and it varies markedly in many respects to the governor," Sandack said. The proposal passed with most Republicans voting "present." Sandack had the same problem with another bill on freezing property taxes, which Democrats claimed was identical to the governor's proposal. That legislation only garnered 41 "yes" votes. State Rep. Will Davis (D-Homewood) took exception to Republican anger over adding amendments to the governor's proposals. "I didn't realize we were limited to only what the governor proposed, and that we were not able to add more to try to make it better," Davis said.

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