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Nearly 700,000 customers were without power mid-day Wednesday in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia, down a few thousand from the morning, according to poweroutage.us.

Fun is the overarching theme when it comes to stadium giveaways, and business has been good at major league ballparks this year.

The County Board Tuesday night rejected putting a question on the November election ballot asking voters if they want to be able to recall county elected officials. Efforts to make the proposed binding referendum an advisory referendum only also failed. 

Tran said a man who identified himself as a committeeperson for Sangamon County Democratic Party Precinct 15 called her multiple times at her nonprofit workplace. When she called him back, the phone call included insults, racial remarks and ultimatums to drop out of the race.

The donation will help the hospital’s NICU — again.

A third-party contractor is to blame, and a hotel is about to evict the family.

Illinois Association of Realtors, launched a partnership with local officials across the state!

Capitol News Illinois sued the state child protection agency after it denied release of caseworker personnel records.

Immigrant detention center limitation also among 75 bills signed by the governor.

“No power. It was very scary. We were down in the basement,” Javid Jenkins in Homewood, a Chicago suburb, said. “We’re built for snow. We’re built for cold. We’re not built for this.”