An Illinois man is the second person to be charged in connection with the alleged murder of a California man whose body was found in June 2018 in Miller County.
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert must report to a federal prison in southeastern Minnesota this week to begin serving a 15-month sentence in his hush-money case, one that revealed he sexually abused at least four boys decades ago when he coached wrestling at a suburban Chicago high school.
Chicago police say one man is dead and four others are wounded after someone opened fire on a group filming a rap video in a park on the city's South Side.
Police say a construction worker was killed and three others were injured when a 45-ton beam fell on them as they worked on a bridge in a Chicago suburb.
A winter storm is forecast to move across Illinois bringing high winds, icy precipitation and waves up to 20-feet high along the shores of Lake Michigan.