OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Health Department confirmed 2 COVID-19 related deaths and 142 additional cases. There have now been a total of 75 coronavirus related deaths in the county with over 3,000 cases since the start of the pandemic. Officials also are alerting residents that the
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SPRING VALLEY – No injuries were reported after a fire damaged a home in Spring Valley Thursday afternoon. The Spring Valley Fire Department were called around 1:30 PM to a home on Westminster Drive and began battling a blaze. Multiple area fire departments were also summoned to the scene,
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PRINCETON – The Bureau, Putnam & Marshall County Health Department on Thursday announced 54 more residents of Bureau County have tested positive for COVID-19. Since the pandemic began there have been 19 COVID-19 related deaths in the county. Also announced were four more cases in Putnam
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PONTIAC – The Livingston County Health Department on Thursday announced that 44 more residents have tested positive for COVID-19. Since the pandemic began there have been 12 COVID-19 related deaths in the county. Currently, the health department reports 160 active cases, with six being
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OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Health Department is experiencing a large volume of calls and new cases of COVID-19, and are asking the public to cooperate if you or a close contact test positive. They now say it could take a couple of days for a contact tracer to reach out to you. They
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LASALLE – Local area food pantries received a boost in funds in time for the holiday season thanks to the law firm of Schweickert Ganassin Krzak & Rundio injury attorneys and the Doug & Rorie J Schweickert Charitable Trust. On Thursday Mike Krzak and Steven Schweikert presented
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OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Health Department says 142 people have been confirmed infected of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours. That bests the previous high of 90, set just two days ago, and gives the county a 7 day rolling average of 80 cases a day, also a high. The
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health confirmed a record number of new COVID-19 cases on Thursday. 9,935 new cases were reported as well as 97 additional deaths, bringing the death toll since the start of the pandemic to over 10,000. 3 individuals from LaSalle County were
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OGLESBY – Grace McCormick of Peru is the Illinois Valley Community College Foundation’s 21st Century Scholar for 2020. McCormick, a 4.0 GPA student, plans a career in nonprofit management and hopes to eventually run an agency aiding the homeless or victims of domestic violence.
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PONTIAC – The Livingston County Health Department is seeking cooperation from those they contact to help speed up their job in slowing down the spread of COVID-19. They say that since contact tracing began in March, nearly 74,000 hours have been dedicated to contact tracing at the
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