Dick Durbin doesn't answer question from conservative reporter William Kelly press conference at City Club

communities.washingtontimes.com Durbin asks, "Will you please leave" and fellow reporters threaten to call the cops; Illinois Radio Network's Jim Anderson: "If you're not quiet, we're gonna have you thrown out of the room by the cops, OK?" ...

Rockford removing 2,400 streetlights in plan to save $500,000

wlsam.com The letters lauding the project or asking to remove more streetlights are about equal to the complaints about darkness ...

Bryan R. Roehr, 24, of Wood Dale accused of stockpiling bomb materials

dailyherald.com Learned to build bombs by watching YouTube; stored two pounds of potassium perchlorate and one pound of aluminum powder, 30 cardboard tubes, several 5-foot cannon fuses, glue guns, funnels, mixing bags and threaded metal piping ...

Man, possibly intoxicated pulled from Chicago River near State Street and Wacker Drive

chicagotribune.com Paramedics called to the scene about 1:35 a.m. Friday and transported in serious condition-to-critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital ...

Former police chief Theresa Neubauer and former water department supervisor Frank Scaccia indicted for connecting cancer-causing well to Crestwood water supply

chicagotribune.com Obtained water from tainted well even though the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency had told them in 1986 that it was contaminated with vinyl chloride and dichloroethylene -- related to perchloroethylene or perc ...

Daryl Loving, shot in the street in Jeffery Manor neighborhood

chicagotribune.com Shot multiple times in the chest in the 2300 block of Easst 99th Street about 4:15 a.m. Thursay; no immediate arrests ...

Gurnee man, three teens arrested after one offender's moms calls police

triblocal.com/antioch-fox-lake Harold Caesar, 25, was charged Thursday with felony burglary to motor vehicle and the teens were referred to juvenile court on several charges; alleged offenders tied to vehicle burglaries in Lake Villa, Linenhurst, Round Lake Beach, Lake Forest, unincorporated  Lake County and Kenosha County, Wisconsin ...

Butcher Alfredo Cuellar, 41, killed Thursday morning by bullet shot through front window of Southeast Side meat market

nbcchicago.com Shot in chest at store at 79th Street and Marquette Avenue about 10:30 a.m.; no immediate arrests; surveillance camera captured two black males, apparently intended victims, hiding from shooter in white car ... 

How broke? Illinois can no longer bury its indigent dead

nbcchicago.com The indigent body stays at the county morgue or medical examiner's office; after 60-90 days body goes to burial at a numbered grave in a "plotter's field" ...