Tag: Illinois

Suspect in Shooting of Illinois Officers Arrested in Indiana

CHICAGO—A man suspected in the shooting of one police officer and wounding of another at a northern Illinois hotel has been taken into custody, authorities said Friday. Darius Sullivan, one of two people suspected in the shooting of the two Bradley police officers, was arrested Friday morning at a home in North Manchester, Indiana, Sgt….


Illinois Police Seek 2 in Killing of 1 Cop, Wounding of 2nd

BRADLEY, Ill.—Authorities were searching Thursday for two people believed to have been involved in the fatal shooting of one police officer and wounding of another at a northern Illinois hotel. The two Bradley police officers were shot late Wednesday while speaking to people in a room at a Comfort Inn along a highway in Kankakee…


Chicago Teachers Union Polling Members Over Strike or ‘Shift to Remote Learning’

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is polling its members on whether they would back a city-wide strike or a shift to remote learning, citing the surge of the Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, as students are set to return to the classroom on Jan. 3. All CTU members were asked to…


Deputy Shot to Death in Illinois; Gunman at Large

MILL SHOALS, Ill.—Authorities in two states are searching for a gunman who killed an eastern Illinois deputy early Wednesday and is suspected in a carjacking in neighboring Missouri a couple of hours later. The Wayne County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that Deputy Sean Riley responded to a motorist assist call on Interstate…


Chicago Suburb Orland Park Refuses to Enforce COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Businesses

Trustees of the village of Orland Park, a municipality in Chicago’s Cook County suburb, voted on Dec. 28 not to enforce the county’s COVID-19 vaccine passport requirement for some businesses. At a special meeting of the Orland Park Village Board of Trustees, officials voted 6–0 in favor of a resolution that opposes Cook County’s vaccination…


4 People Injured After Shooting at Chicago-Area Mall

OAK BROOK, Ill.—A shooting at a suburban Chicago mall full of Christmas shoppers left four people injured Thursday, police said. The incident at Oakbrook Center in Oak Brook began with two males involved in a shootout in a corridor around 5:45 p.m., police Chief James Kruger said. He said the injuries were not life-threatening. Three…


Antifa Threatens Illinois Dad Who Opposes Sexually Explicit Books at Schools

About a month ago, Terry Newsome, a father of two high school freshmen in a Democratic-leaning Chicago suburb, started to speak out against a local public schools’ decision to carry a book that contains sexual scenes. He spoke out at school board meetings of the Downers Grove public school district. He also voiced his opinions…


Lone Illinois School District Wages Fight Against State’s Mask Mandate

When the Illinois school mask mandate came down in summer of 2021, the small public school district in rural Hutsonville found itself between a rock and hard place, again. Back at the beginning of the 2020 school year, though the supermajority of parents didn’t quite like the mask mandate, Hutsonville district was forced to comply…


Ohio Sets Single-Day COVID-19 Cases Record, Again

Ohio has again set a record for the most new COVID-19 cases in the state in a day, continuing a trend in the midwest and some northeastern states, according to numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments. The Buckeye State recorded 12,864 new COVID-19 cases within a 24-hour period…


Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Announces Citywide COVID-19 Vaccine Passport

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced that people will have to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination to enter restaurants, bars, and gyms—becoming the latest city to mandate a vaccine passport. “Despite our diligent and equitable vaccine distribution efforts throughout this year, unfortunately, our city continues to see a surge of COVID-19 Delta and now Omicron cases,”…