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Evening News for Thursday, December 4, 2017

tonight's headlines:

  • 2017 was warmer and dryer than normal in Illinois,
  • one of the 8 democrats running for Ill. attorney general campaigned in the QC today,
  • and propane prices are up only slightly so far despite the severe cold.

Gradual clearing overnight with a low near -8. Sunny and cold Friday, high near 7 with a wind chill to -15.

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.