WASHINGTON, March 14 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Force 2nd Lt. Robert L. E. Porter, 23, of Chicago, Illinois, killed during World War II, was accounted for Dec. 20, 2023. In early 1944, Porter was assigned to the 703rd Bombardment Squadron, 445th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force in the European Theater. On Feb 24, 2nd Lt. Porter, the navig  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 15 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on March 15, 2024, entitled "Average Energy Prices, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin - February 2024": * * * Gasoline prices averaged $3.583 a gallon in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin area in February 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Jason Palmer noted that area gasoline prices were down 14.2 cen  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 15 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on March 15, 2024, entitled "Average Energy Prices, Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington - February 2024": * * * Gasoline prices averaged $3.124 a gallon in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington area in February 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Jason Palmer noted that area gasoline prices we  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 16 -- The U.S. Justice Department Drug Enforcement Administration Chicago Division issued the following news release on March 14, 2024: John McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Milwaukee and Timothy M. O'Shea, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that two Madison men have been sentenced in connection with fentanyl trafficking. Tysean J. Pollard, 22, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief  more

SACRAMENTO, California, March 16 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on March 15, 2024: Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration, today reminded small nonfarm businesses in 35 Iowa counties and neighboring counties in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin of the April 15, 2024, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low interest loan  more

SACRAMENTO, California, March 16 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on March 15, 2024: Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration, today reminded small nonfarm businesses in 12 Missouri counties and a neighboring county in Illinois of the April 15, 2024, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-interest loans are to offset econo  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- The Federal Election Commission issued the following news release on March 15, 2024: The Federal Election Commission cited three campaign committees today for failing to file the 12-Day Pre-Primary Report required by the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended (the Act), for primary elections being held on March 19, 2024 in Illinois and Ohio. As of March 15, 2024, the required disclosure report had not been received from: * Charlie Kim in US Congress (IL-14)   more

WASHINGTON, March 9 -- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs issued the following news release: Today, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, and Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization office launched the Federal Electronic Health Record (EHR) at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (Lovell FHCC) in North Chicago, Illinois. This is the first joint deployment of the federal EHR, which DOD calls MHS GENESIS, at a joint VA and Department of Defe  more