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SPRINGFIELD – In presidential primary elections, it’s all about the delegates.

Delegates are the chosen representatives that attend each party’s nominating convention and give their support to a specified candidate.

A Democratic candidate this year will need 1,990 of 3,979 pledged delegates at the party’s national convention to receive the nomination on the first ballot, while any subsequent ballots will require 2,376 of all 4,750 delegate votes.

Republicans require a majority

A 29-year-old man was hospitalized Monday after being crushed under a vehicle at a truck repair shop, Huntley Police said.

Huntley Deputy Police Chief Michael Klunk said police and Huntley Fire Protection crews responded at 3:45 p.m.

SPRINGFIELD – Senator Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, was elected as the 39th president of the Illinois Senate on Sunday after hours of behind-the-scenes negotiations. 

The race had been weeks in the making, and by the time the closed-door negotiations began Sunday shortly after 11 a.m., the field of candidates was down to two – Harmon, who has served in the chamber since 2003, and Sen.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Gun-rights activists — some making deliberate displays of their military-style rifles — began to descend on Virginia's capital city Monday to protest plans by the state's Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation.

Several thousand activists — mostly white and male, many clothed in camouflage and waving flags with messages of support for President Donald Trump — appeared hours before the 11 a.m. rally was set to begin.

Gov.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is accusing U.S. intelligence agencies of withholding documents from Congress on Ukraine that could be significant to President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.

“They appear to be succumbing to pressure from the administration,” Rep.

CHICAGO (AP) — Animal control officials in Chicago said Sunday that DNA tests confirm a coyote recently captured in the city is the same animal that attacked a 6-year-old boy.

An evaluation determined that the animal was shot with a BB gun, “which could have caused the limp in its movements as well as the aggressive behavior,” according to the Chicago Animal Care and Control's statement. Officials said they worked with the U.S.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a law that eliminates driver's license suspensions for most non-moving violations.

The Democrat signed the “License to Work Act” last week. It takes effect July.

Prizter says it will allow tens of thousands of motorists to have driving privileges reinstated.

BEIJING (AP) — The head of a Chinese government expert team said Monday that human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in an outbreak of a new coronavirus, a development that raises the possibility that it could spread more quickly and widely.

Team leader Zhong Nanshan, a respiratory expert, said two people in Guangdong province in southern China caught the virus from family members, state media said.

Volunteers with the Senior Care Volunteer Network deliver bouquets of flowers and gifts to local seniors for their birthdays on Monday, Jan. 20, 2020 in Crystal Lake.

Cold temperatures will continue Monday and Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.Monday will be mostly sunny with a high of 22 to 25 degrees and lows around 5. Tuesday also will have highs in the 22- to 25-degree range and with a low around 15.

Forecasters call for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the beginning of the work week to be a bit warmer than the frigid temperatures that socked the McHenry County region throughout the weekend.Sunday saw a high of 16 degrees, a low of around 10 degrees, and wind chill values as low as -2.