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"My whole house shook," said a witness to the crash. Four people from Wisconsin were killed on Saturday when their private, single-engine plane crashed in a field near an airport in rural Illinois ...

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according to Illinois State Police. The National Transportation Safety Board said the Cessna 180 single-engine plane hit power lines before crashing, with debris spread across County Line Road.

The Illinois DOT has begun blasting portions of the old McClugage Bridge in Peoria, Illinois, and will finish this summer.