The Rev. Mark Zhang of Living Water Evangelical Church in Naperville, Illinois, said Tuesday that Eva Liu’s parents confirmed to him that she was killed after a Michigan man attacked her and Kelsey Chang while they were hiking near Neuschwanstein castle June 14.
Driving along the Rock River, Mitch Leatherbie, a street superintendent for the city of Rockford, Illinois, spots a pair of trees he considers survivors. “There’s two ash trees, right, they’re still standing,” said Leatherbie. “… Those were just a couple of them that we kept.” In the early 2000s, Rockford lost approximately 5,000 ash trees…
June 20, 2023 Today’s headlines: A Democratic Illinois Congressman says lawmakers need to do more to prevent mass shootings. Illinois police departments can now use drones to patrol parades and other special events. An Illinois prison watchdog is calling on the state to act faster to meet its own goal of closing all youth prisons….
New law allows event surveillance, building inspections, search and rescue