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PERU – The City of Peru was awarded a safe route to school grant from the Illinois Department of Transportation. The approved project includes new and replacement sidewalks for children in the community to reach school safely. A replacement sidewalk along Shooting Park Road at the west

OTTAWA – Authorities are warning of a powerful animal sedative that is being found in victims who have died of a drug overdose. LaSalle County Officials say that statewide a veterinary sedative known as Xylazine, or Tranq, has made street drugs even more dangerous. Naloxone administered in

SPRINGFIELD – A firefighter who died in the line of duty from northern Illinois will be honored alongside three others by the State Fire Marshal on Tuesday.   Lieutenant Garrett Ramos of the Sterling Fire Department died last December after a floor collapsed battling a fire in a Rock Falls

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency announced the issuance of infrastructure loans to local governments and sanitary districts for the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2022. The Illinois EPA State Revolving Fund Program provides low-interest loans, which fund wastewater,

  STREATOR – A Streator woman is facing multiple charges after being taken into custody by the LaSalle County Sheriff’s Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. LaSalle County Sheriff’s Adam Diss reported that 24-year-old Aymee L. Wilinski allegedly possessed

    OGLESBY – Paula Hallock of Tonica is the 2022 winner of Illinois Valley Community College’s Connie Skerston Memorial Award for Support Staff Distinguished Service. Hallock, Human Resources administrative assistant, was nominated by Ottawa Center counselor Valery

JOLIET – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, will begin daytime closures of the Brandon Road Lock located in Joliet beginning May 9 to facilitate installation of bulkhead recesses which will later be used to perform critical maintenance on the lock in 2023. Closures will

OGLESBY – Illinois Valley Community College’s Mu Alpha chapter of the Sigma Kappa Delta English Honor Society for two-year colleges inducted 34 students at its annual induction ceremony April 28. Students recognized were: Fall 2021: Madison N. Miranda of DePue; Paula G. Taylor of