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An Ogle County man wants you to have a special copy of the U.S. Constitution. According to the Register Star, in 2011 Ken Foss and Jeff Johnson discovered more than 10,000 copies of the Constitution in a Kingston warehouse owned by Johnson: Artist Theodore Ohman created the documents using glass-plate negatives and metal-press plates, some of which Foss and Johnson also found...

Boone County officials are reporting the first positive test in a bird in 2015 for West Nile Virus. Last year, four people in Illinois died from West Nile virus. Winnebago County reported its first case of West Nile just last week. WNV is transmitted through the bite of a mosquito that has picked up the virus by feeding on an infected bird...