He was sentenced to 20 years after being recorded in jail offering $1K to capture the man trying him for the murder of his estranged wife.
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Stores were shut down during the sweep early Wednesday.
The hotel, located near Starved Rock, remains open.
Friday is your last day to prepay taxes ahead of the new GOP plan, which caps tax deductions at $10,000.
Father Timothy Elkins received a six-year sentence after the baby died in "deplorable" conditions in the family's Illinois home.
Beth Bentley vanished on May 23, 2010 in southern Illinois.
The two men were working on a farm field when a natural gas pipeline exploded.
Several people were injured as the plane went down in high winds Monday night.
The 40-year-old was convicted this week of stealing the potentially deadly narcotic and leaving tampered vials to be used on patients.
A couple and their four children perished in the fire after their 17-year-old son called for help.
Yingying Zhang's father said the loss of his daughter has warped his sense of time: "Every day is like a year."
"(If only) we knew," said a note left for the little boy outside his southern Illinois home. "No kid deserves this."
Nicholas Sheley was tried in 2014 for the murders of four people in Illinois and Missouri.
A Southern Illinois father and stepmother are charged with first-degree murder.
Officer Jaimie Cox, 30, was killed while conducting a traffic stop on Sunday.
Jaimie Cox, 30, had been with the Rockford Police Department for less than a year.
A four-day FBI operation resulted in the rescue of 84 victims, including a 3-month-old baby.
The FBI released new law enforcement officer death and injury statistics for the year 2016.
More departments are deciding that video storage and editing costs are too high.
The boys were strangled and the father hanged himself Tuesday in Bloomington.
The southeastern Illinois high school was locked down and evacuated Wednesday.
Two-year-old Kane Friess-Wylie died of a head injury, according to the medical examiner.
The father, who lives in California, was involved in a custody dispute with a resident, police said.
The same database used to put criminals behind bars could help set an Illinois man free.
Marci Webber was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2010 death of daughter Maggie.
The 24-year-old Schererville man died Saturday afternoon.
The 6-year-old's badly decomposed body was found in the garage of a vacant home last month.
Two 15-year-old girls are charged after a woman was found dead in a burning home with a gunshot to the head.
A northwestern Illinois woman was found shot in the head inside the home.