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Timmins joined the Pontoon Beach police force in April 2020, He was a police officer in Madison County for 14 years and previously served as a police officer in Roxana, Wordon, and Hartford.
Chicago Journal
Included in the budget is a 30% increase in spending on an array of programs using an infusion of federal funds.
Chicago Journal
From 2006 to 2015 he conspired with his company’s employees in Pakistan to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act by exporting computer equipment from the U.S. to the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission and a research institute that trained the agency’s engineers and scientists.
Chicago Journal
Rickey Claybron and his co-conspirators were convicted of a series of violent retail robberies that occurred in Rockford from October through November of 2015.
Chicago Journal
The man was struck at about 6 a.m. CDT at an intersection near a road that leads to the John Deere Parts Distribution Center in Milan, Illinois, Police Chief Shawn Johnson said.
Business
Boeing said Wednesday it is building about two 787s a month and expects to stay at that low rate until deliveries resume. Problems including fuselage flaws are expected to cause $1 billion in "abnormal costs," the company said, including a $183 million charge recorded in the Q3.
Chicago Journal
We had previously reported the boy was 15-years-old, but authorities now say the boy was 14-years-old. His 19-year-old brother, Oscar Alvarez, Jr., has been charged.
Chicago Journal
Despite support from nearly three-quarters of Illinoisans in favor of parental notification of under-18 abortion, Illinois Senate Democrats moved forward with a proposal to repeal the law requiring parental notification of an abortion under 18 years old.
Law
The hearing was likely the last before Rittenhouse goes on trial Nov. 1 for the shootings during chaotic demonstrations in Kenosha on Aug. 25, 2020.
Chicago Journal
Illinois State Police said Pontoon Beach Officer Tyler Timmins succumbed to his injuries at a hospital.
Crime
A woman called police to report that a man inside a home had been drinking, was armed with a Samurai sword, and had threatened to kill her and attack officers.
Chicago Politics
The city argued the union's actions amounted to encouraging a work stoppage while union attorneys said the matter is part of a unfair labor dispute and the vaccine mandate was ordered without union input.