Thursday, February 26, 2026
SWAT officers stormed Ebony Tate’s home without knocking, aimed guns at the children and forced their grandmother outside in her underwear. “I’m just praying that this will put a stop to the wrongful raids,” Tate said after the verdict.
A new Illinois bill would ensure that emergency orders of protection stay in place until a final order is officially served to the offender.
When Jillian Lake was a student at Oswego High School she followed a routine. She woke up in the morning, got dressed and drove through the community she’d grown up in.
The man accused of killing a Coles County board member and his wife last year in a case of DUI pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison.
On Feb. 24, U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey rejected a bid by the operators of Illinois charter schools for an injunction blocking the state of Illinois from enforcing a law which demands "neutrality" from charter school operators concerning union activity in their schools.