
Beth Hundsdorfer
Reporter at Capitol News Illinois
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5 days ago |
kwqc.com | Beth Hundsdorfer
CHICAGO (CNI) - As the red velvet curtains at the Vatican parted, a priest realized that his college pal from the South Side of Chicago that he knows as “Bob” had been elected the first American pope. “Oh, dear God,” the Very Rev. Anthony Benedetto Pizzo, the prior provincial of the Augustinian Order in Chicago, said as he heard the news. Pizzo knew Robert Prevost could be named Pope, but it was an outside chance. Prevost was just named cardinal in 2023.
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1 week ago |
wmbdradio.com | Beth Hundsdorfer |Jade Aubrey |Julia Bradley
CHATHAM (Capitol News Illinois) — As a central Illinois community mourns the deaths of three children and a teen counselor killed Monday when a vehicle crashed into the building that housed their after-school program, it has rallied around survivors. Ainsley Johnson, 8; Kathryn Corley, 7; Alma Buhnerkempe, 7, all of Chatham, and counselor Rylee Britton, 18, of Springfield, died from blunt force trauma in the accident.
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1 week ago |
commercial-news.com | Beth Hundsdorfer
CHATHAM — The driver of a vehicle involved in a deadly crash Monday at an after-school program formerly worked for the Illinois State Police, the agency investigating the crash. The ISP identified the driver as Marianne Akers, 44, of Chatham. She worked at the ISP from June 2006 to August 2018, an ISP spokesman confirmed Tuesday. kAm%96 4C2D9 @44FCC65 2E bia_ A]>] |@?52J H96?
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2 weeks ago |
bnd.com | Beth Hundsdorfer |Jade Aubrey
As a central Illinois community mourns the deaths of three children and a teen counselor killed Monday when a vehicle crashed into the building that housed their after-school program, it has rallied around survivors. Ainsley Johnson, 8; Kathryn Corley, 7; Alma Buhnerkempe, 7, all of Chatham, and counselor Rylee Britton, 18, of Springfield, died from blunt force trauma in the accident.
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2 weeks ago |
herald-review.com | Beth Hundsdorfer
CHATHAM — The driver of a vehicle involved in a deadly crash Monday at an after-school program formerly worked for the Illinois State Police, the agency investigating the crash. The ISP identified the driver as Marianne Akers, 44, of Chatham. She worked at the ISP from June 2006 to August 2018, an ISP spokesman confirmed Tuesday.
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Driver of Chatham fatal crash had clean toxicology, Illinois State Police confirm via @@CapitolNewsIL https://t.co/U4hI20kgrC

Driver of deadly crash at after-school camp is a former State Police employee via @@CapitolNewsIL https://t.co/ryIrLFo6Is

HB2827 passes out of committee with a 9 to 4 vote. The Homeschool Act will now move to the house floor for a vote.