BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq wants to eliminate any chance U.S. forces will stay here after 2011 under a proposed security pact and to expand Iraqi legal jurisdiction over U.S. troops until then, a close ally of the prime minister said Thursday. (more…)
Ronald Sandeno, 88, of Gardner, died Wednesday at the Illinois Veterans Home at Manteno.
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinoisans have been lining up all day to cast ballots on the last day of early voting.
Election officials estimate nearly 10,000 people voted in Chicago and suburban cities during the first hour polls were open. That’s on top of Wednesday’s statewide rush. (more…)
CHICAGO (AP) — Funeral services for the mother, brother and nephew of actress Jennifer Hudson will be held on Monday morning. (more…)
CHICAGO (AP) — Lobbyist-businessman William F. Cellini Sr. has been indicted on charges that accuse him of conspiring with convicted influence peddler Tony Rezko to extort money for an unnamed public official. (more…)
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Rod Blagojevich wants state lawmakers to do something to help prevent home foreclosures.
Blagojevich says he’s pushing for a new law that would establish 3-month moratoriums on foreclosures for homeowners who enter mortgage counseling. The proposal will be introduced during the General Assembly’s veto session in November. (more…)
James Bernard Fleming, 81, of Morris, formerly of Goose Lake, died Tuesday at Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet.
Kevin Edmund Bishop, 55, of Manteno, formerly of Frankfort, died Sunday from injuries sustained in a car accident.
Visitation for Merle Paulette “Polly” “Aunt Polly” Stubblefield Butler, will be from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday at the Jones Funeral Home in Kankakee.
Visitation for Keith Benson, 61, of Diamond, will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the R.W. Patterson Funeral Homes, Ltd., Braidwood Chapel, where services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday.
