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New Law Making it Easier to Submit Required Mortgage Activity Reports to Authorities in Illinois Signed by Governor Bruce Rauner

SPRINGFIELD — A new law making it easier to submit required mortgage activity reports to authorities in Illinois has been signed by Governor Bruce Rauner. Enactment of House Bill 55-42 will exempt nonprofits focused on affordable housing from having to obtain a residential mortgage license while also fostering reallocation of resources for improved tracking of market trends.

Instead of filing separate reports, mortgage professionals now can use the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System and Registry  to comply with state reporting requirements.

 

DECATUR, Ill. (AP) — A 20-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a 12-year-old central Illinois boy. Twenty-year-old Avante M. Flesch of Decatur entered the plea Wednesday. He is being held at the Macon County Jail in lieu of posting $100,000 bond.Decatur police have said Flesch told investigators he was playing with a handgun when it accidently fired and fatally wounded Marqueius Gray on Nov. 12. He said he found the gun lying on a couch and removed its magazine before it accidentally discharged.

 

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago's O'Hare Airport is getting a new security scanner that officials hope will make going through security checkpoints more efficient. The new scanner may not be used to screen passengers until after the holidays because the Transportation Security Administration is still testing it and training employees to use it. The new CT scanners have been tested in Boston and Phoenix and are now being rolled out to other airports.The technology is already used on

checked luggage. It could give TSA agents at security checkpoints a better view of items, eventually allowing passengers to leave liquids in their carry-on bags. Agents also may need to do fewer hands-on searches.In Chicago the scanner will be in the Terminal 1 checkpoint open to some United Airlines passengers.

 

 

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Wednesday issued a blistering report about clergy sexual abuse, saying that Catholic dioceses in Illinois has not released the names of at least 500 clergy accused of sexually abusing children.The preliminary report found that the church's six archdioceses have done a woefully inadequate job of investigating allegations and in some cases did not investigate them at all or notify the state's child welfare agency. Madigan's office said that while the dioceses have disclosed 45 more names of those credibly accused, the total number of names disclosed is only 185 and raises questions about the church's response to the crisis.

 

CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. Census Bureau estimates Illinois' population shrunk by more than 45,000 over the 12 months ending July 1. The estimates released Wednesday show that loss was more than any other state except New York, which lost more than 48,000. The estimates have Illinois remaining as the sixth most populous state with more than 12.74 million residents, behind California, Texas, Florida, New York and Pennsylvania.

 

 

The Illinois State Police is reminding parents about a new car seat law effective January first. Starting in 2019…all kids under the age of two must ride in a rear facing seat unless they weigh more than 40 pounds. it’s about preventing injury and death during a crash says Lieutenant Matt Boerwinkle.

 

 

Violators face a 75 dollar fine for the first offense and up to 200 bucks for the second offense.

 

(Paxton--jc)  --The Paxton Evangelical Covenant Church on South Union Street will be busy on Christmas Day. The local church is hosting a  free Christmas dinner from 11 AM to 1 PM on the 25th. To get a ride to the church or to arrange a Christmas meal delivery, you may call the church.


 

 

(Paxton--jc)  The subject of wind farm regulation is on the agenda for a special meeting of the Ford County Board tonight in Paxton. At stake, is the future of jobs, economic development with several wind farm projects proposed for Ford County. The meeting comes to order at 7 at the courthouse in Paxton.

 

 

 

Members of the 2018 Parkland College Cobras Baseball team will receive their NJCAA-D2 World Series Runner-Up rings in a ceremony Saturday, Jan. 12.

This recognition will take place at halftime of the 1 p.m. Cobras Women's Basketball game against Kankakee Community College, in Parkland's Dodds Athletic Center (gym). The ring ceremony is open to the public.

 

 

Illinois home prices moved higher in November while home sales slowed slightly as consumers began to turn their attention to the holidays, data from Illinois REALTORS® show.Statewide home sales (including single-family homes and condominiums) in November totaled 11,608 homes sold, down 1.6 percent from 11,800 in November 2017.The statewide median price in November was $190,000, up 2.7 percent from November 2017, when the median price was $185,000. The median is a typical market price where half the homes sold for more and half sold for less.

 

 

(Undated--jc)  Illinois is celebrating its 200th anniversary as a state. Here is today’s Bicentennial minute…

 



CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A federal judge overseeing the case of a man accused in the 2017 kidnapping and killing of a University of Illinois scholar from China must rule soon on a defense motion to suppress evidence seized from the suspect's apartment. Brendt Christensen's lawyers contend Christensen's then-wife, Michelle Christensen, never validly consented to a search. That contradicts investigators at the apartment on June 14, 2017, two weeks before Brendt Christensen was charged in Yingying Zhang's death. They say they interviewed the wife, got her consent and then searched.But the ex-wife, who since changed her last name to Zortman, told a Tuesday hearing agents searched during the interview. She asked how she could object to a search that had already been done. Christensen's trial is set for April.

 

 

Attorney General Lisa Madigan says preliminary findings of her office’s investigation into the catholic church are shocking. The six dioceses in Illinois have publicly identified 185 clergy members accused of child sexual assault. But Attorney General Madigan says her office has identified at least another 500 potential cases...many of which were never investigated.

 

 

Madigan says her office has received about 300 calls, emails and letters regarding clergy abuse since her investigation began in august.

 

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An ongoing project to digitize all of Abraham Lincoln's papers has received a grant. Officials announced Tuesday that the Abraham Lincoln Association has given a $6,000 grant to the digitization project at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. The grant will pay for software for the Papers of Abraham Lincoln to track hundreds of thousands of documents related to the 16th president.

 

 

SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Bruce Rauner announced Wednesday that companies and individuals interested in expanding demand for food and other products using Asian carp caught in Illinois waters are invited to apply for grant funding to assist their marketing efforts. Grants are now available through the Illinois Department of Natural Resources’ (IDNR) Asian Carp Market Value Program (MVP) to support current Asian carp processors and product-makers in expanding existing markets and developing new markets and sales opportunities for Asian carp products. Governor Rauner says  taxpayers will save money, the fishing industry benefits along with those who consume the fish.

 

 

(Gibson City--jc)  -- The American Lutheran Church located on route 9 in Gibson City is hosting its 43rd annual Christmas Day Dinner at noon on Tuesday. The free meal includes turkey, ham, dressing, mashed potatoes with gravy, vegetables, desserts and beverages. A free-will offering will be received. Although tickets are not necessary, a call to the church to arrange a meal is suggested.

 

 

There's a special U-S-D-A web page that can help Santa and other international holiday travelers and gift givers avoid some potential hassles. Gary Crawford reports…

 

 

(Springfield--jc)  --An anti-abortion group is asking the Illinois Supreme Court to consider the legality of the procedures lawmakers used in 2017 to approve a law that allowed taxpayer-funded state health insurance and Medicaid coverage to be used to cover abortions.The Thomas More Society, a nonprofit that advocates for anti-abortion policies, has formally requested the state’s highest court take the case to decide if House Bill 40, which Governor Bruce Rauner signed into law last year, was approved within the legal boundaries of the Illinois Constitution.

 

 

(Fisher--jc)  -- The Holiday time is also a time that phone scams increase. The Fisher Police Department says they have responded to local residents who have reported phone call from scammers claiming to represent the Internal Revenue Service, seeking money. Fisher police remind the public not to give out any personal, banking or credit card information.

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