The Davis Junction Scott Township Historical Society will be hosting a program covering the railroad war that took place between the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Railroad and the Chicago Iowa Railroad in late March and early April 1881.

From Capitol News Illinois: A federal agency says Illinois can’t limit credit card swipe fees for federally chartered banks, even though a federal judge earlier this year ruled that it could.

Illinois State Senator Patrick Joyce, D-Essex, discusses the recovery from the storms that struck Kankakee County, and other things he has going on down in Springfield.

Developing: Westbound Interstate 88 is closed Monday evening for a police investigation, the Illinois State Police said. A large police presence was seen on I-88 just west of Keslinger Road in Maple Park in DeKalb County.

Timothy J. Rodgers, 22, of DeKalb was ordered on Monday to remain in the Kendall County jail after he allegedly robbed a person at gunpoint in Oswego on Saturday.

A person walking in the woods in Carpentersville Sunday found a human skull, according to Kane County officials.

The Sterling Fire Department was called at 9:01 a.m. Monday to a residential structure fire in the 800 block of Avenue I

Economic problems forced the owners of Piggy’s to close the restaurant’s doors at the end of March. They started a GoFundMe page to create a food truck business.

A man who was found dead after firefighters responded to a house fire last week in Lake in the Hills has been identified as an Army veteran.