King speaker to Peoria: make real change at the ballot box

PEORIA - In echoing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s call to the ballot box, Andrew Gillum said Monday that honoring the civil-rights icon means pushing to change America.

PEORIA - More than three dozen people, many children, braved snow flurries and temperatures hovering in the upper teens to honor an icon in American history - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Some, like Saras Guzzardo, a fifth-grader at Peoria Academy, came because it's what they do.

PEORIA -- A 20-year-old Chillicothe man likely died instantly when the ATV he was on late Friday flipped over.

SPRINGFIELD - An Illinois anti-abortion advocacy group argues the U.S. Supreme Court's decision legalizing the procedure is outdated and "out of step with modern science." The Thomas More Society, a Chicago-based law firm, filed a brief earlier this year on behalf of Illinois Right to Life in the highest court's first abortion-related case in years.

Five Republican Illinois House members are calling for an immediate hearing into the state's automatic voter registration law after more than 500 non-U.S. citizens were inadvertently registered to vote because of a programming error in the Secretary of State's Office.