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The Executive and Legislative Committee met Thursday night and advanced several items for a full vote at the October County Board Meeting. The Committee approved the Rankin-Hoopeston area Invenergy Musketeer wind application. Invenergy unlike other developers will both own and operate the project, providing some contin...

Former Republican state senator Darren Bailey officially kicked off his second campaign for Illinois governor today. Capitol News Illinois reports Bailey picked Cook County Republican Chairman Aaron Del Mar as his running mate. They think bringing two Republicans from opposite sides of the state gives them the best c...

On 09/25 around 4:45 a.m., Danville Police (DPD) responded to a residence in the 400 block of Beard St. in reference to a gunshot victim. Upon arrival, officers located a 33-year-old male with an apparent gunshot wound. It was discovered the shooting took place in the 500 block of Harvey Street. The victim was transpor...

Gov. JB Pritzker issued an executive order earlier this month requiring Illinois Department of Public Health to issue its own guidelines for vaccines amid uncertainty over what the federal government would recommend. The recommendation bucks new and murky guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and prevention t...

In a meeting of the Veteran's Assistance Commission meeting Wednesday night there was strong debate about how tax money was being used or not used for the benefit of Vermilion County Veterans. The debate centered around giving VAC Director Marti Carroll a large increase in salary, while the actual expenditures for vete...