CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is crafting plans to deploy about 150 federal agents to Chicago this week, the Chicago Tribune has learned, a move that would come amid growing controversy nationally about federal force being used in American cities.

SPRINGFIELD - One of the state's largest teachers unions said Monday that most schools in Illinois are not yet ready to reopen for in-person teaching in the fall.

PEORIA - Tekeia Davis was running away from the sound of gunfire when she fell to the ground.

PEORIA -- In the wake of Sunday's shooting on the Peoria riverfront, police plan a crackdown on "roving street parties," Chief Loren Marion said.

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