One of the longest-running cast member in the history of Saturday Night Live, the easygoing funnyman has crafted some of the series’ most enduring characters in his nine-year stint on the popular late-night comedy staple. Meadows is best known as self-proclaimed Ladies’ Man Leon Phelps and as early morning talk show host Lionel Osborne, as well as uncanny impressions…
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) The state of Illinois says it’s suspending the operation of all amusement rides similar to the one involved in a deadly accident at the Ohio State Fair. Amusement rides remained closed at the Ohio fair Thursday, a day after a man was killed and seven other people were injured when a ride broke…
Harrisburg, IL (KTRS) The remains of a fallen soldier from Illinois will finally return home. Army Reserve Corporal Edward Borders died in 1951 while he was a prisoner of war in North Korea. His remains will be flown on Thursday to St. Louis, where he will have an escort by Patriot Guard riders to his…
COLLINSVILLE, IL (KTRS) In a case of mistaken identity that almost turned fatal, three Metro east men are in custody today and charged in an assault on a family that was coming home after an evening out. St. Clair Sheriff’s Deputies say the family had just come home in the State Park area of Collinsville July…
CHICAGO (AP) Governor Bruce Rauner has summoned lawmakers into special session to settle the public education funding issue weeks before the school bell is set to ring. The Republican ordered the House and Representatives and Senate to report to Springfield Wednesday. This was after the Senate missed a noon deadline to send to him…
ILLINOIS (AP) The Illinois Department of Public Health has confirmed the first human case of West Nile virus reported in Illinois for 2017. A Will County resident in his 60s became ill at the end of June. Will County is located in northeastern Illinois. Missouri has already found mosquitoes that tested positive for the virus this…
CHICAGO (AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert was released from prison in Minnesota and transferred to a Chicago re-entry facility, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in prison in April 2016 in a banking violations case that revealed accusations he had sexually abused teenagers while coaching…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois has its belated state budget, but the state Capitol’s next flashpoint in the political struggle over finances is about how to fund public education with just weeks before the first day of school. The spending plan lawmakers enacted this month over Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s vetoes includes a $350 million…
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Officials are expected to tour flood-stricken neighborhoods in a county north of Chicago following heavy rainfall earlier this week. The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reports that U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider, both Democrats, will join Lake County Board Chair Aaron Lawlor Saturday afternoon. They also are expected to…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois finally has a budget plan after two years. Now, to start paying bills. The Democratic-controlled Legislature’s vote last week to create a $36 billion framework over Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s vetoes ended the nation’s longest fiscal stalemate since at least the Great Depression. At the core of the budget was…