Itasca Mayor Jeff Pruyn says village officials and police in town won’t enforce a ban on indoor restaurant and bar service ordered by Gov. J.B. Pritzker to curb the spread of COVID-19.
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'Every single vote will be counted,' as Cook County on pace to 'shatter' early-voting, mail-in records
With early voting and requests for mail-in ballots already exceeding records, Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough provided an update Tuesday on the counting process, pledging that every vote would be tallied.
Read MoreGirlfriend gives her account of how Waukegan police shot at her and Marcellis Stinnette
With tears in her eyes, 20-year-old Tafara Williams sat up in her hospital bed Tuesday and told how a Waukegan police officer kept shooting at her and her boyfriend, even though, she said, both had their hands raised and were unarmed.
Read MoreGeneva restaurant on legal fight against dining ban: 'We want to do it the right way'
The day after a judge allowed FoxFire Restaurant in Geneva to offer indoor dining while fighting Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s recent ban, several other eateries in the city’s downtown were serving customers indoors.
Read MoreHonda motorcycle dealership moving from Des Plaines to Barrington
A Honda dealership that sells motorcycles, scooters, all-terrain vehicles, utility vehicles and more is planning to move from Des Plaines to Barrington, whose village board approved an economic incentive agreement Monday night.
Read MoreHigh school basketball, wrestling on hold, Pritzker says
As winter sports participants await word on the fate of the season, the Illinois Department of Public Health Tuesday updated its all sports policy, moving basketball from a medium risk sport to a higher risk sport, and Gov. J.B. Pritzker said basketball and wrestling are “on hold.”
Read MoreGirlfriend's account of Waukegan officer killing varies from police narrative
The girlfriend of Marcellis Stinnette, who survived the shooting that killed the 19-year-old in Waukegan, Illinois, last week, told reporters Tuesday the police harassed her and Stinnette before opening fire without warning after she drove away.
Read MoreProposed downtown Glen Ellyn apartments, designed with pandemic in mind, to get first hearing
A Glen Ellyn advisory panel next month will conduct the first public hearing on a proposal to construct a $30 million apartment building on the site of a former grocery store in downtown.
Read MoreBreonna Taylor grand jurors say police actions on night she died were 'criminal'
The actions of Louisville, Kentucky, police on the night Breonna Taylor was fatally shot were “negligent” and “criminal,” two anonymous grand jurors in the case said in a broadcast interview to air Wednesday.
Read MoreBillionaire accused of blaring 'Gilligan's Island' theme song on loop at his neighbor
Bond billionaire Bill Gross is involved in a legal battle with his tech entrepreneur neighbor over a $1 million sculpture and allegations that Gross blasted the “Gilligan’s Island” theme song on a loop from his house.
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