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By Susan Stephens

Rockford, IL – The Janet Wattles Center in Rockford is one of those service providers in limbo as we enter the new state fiscal year. The center coordinates mental health services for people in the Rockford area: it serves 45-hundred adults and 25-hundred children each year. We asked the Janet Wattles Center's president and CEO Frank Ware for his assessment of how the state's financial crisis will affect people with mental illness in the coming fiscal year:

LaSalle, IL – Thank you for your patience. Repeater station WNIW-LaSalle has been restored to full power, thanks to the arrival of transmitter parts and the hard work of our engineer.

DeKalb, IL – Northern Illinois University can now borrow $29-million dollars while it waits for the state to catch up on its payments. The Board of Trustees reluctantly authorized
the short-term loan at its meeting Wednesday morning. The money would be

By Susan Stephens

Rockford, IL – The shooting was justified...but not the events leading up to it. Rockford city leaders released an independent review of last year's police shooting of a man in a church daycare center. WNIJ's Susan Stephens reports.

By Guy Stephens

DeKalb, IL – An iconic Illinois statue will be 100 years old next year. But time has not been kind to the monumental structure known to many as "Black Hawk." A campaign has begun to restore it to its former glory. WNIJ 's Guy Stephens reports.

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