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STREATOR – Streator Township High School could be making an academic scheduling change in the future. According to Principal Amy Jo Mascal, a schedule support committee has been working to study different forms of academic scheduling for students to better prepare for graduation, testing

LASALLE – LaSalle-Peru High School’s East Gym and ACC Building renovation plans are coming to fruition. Friday morning, board members approved to award bids for components like general construction for the over $7 million project. Plans include locker room upgrades and indoor

PINCKNEYVILLE, Ill. (Chicago Tribune) — An 80-year-old man has been freed after spending nearly 60 years in prison following his 1961 conviction in the killing of one of three suburban Chicago women who were bludgeoned to death in a state park. Chester Weger emerged Friday from Pinckneyville

CHICAGO (AP) — A marijuana company has proposed opening a cannabis dispensary on the same Chicago block as an addiction treatment center that serves about 500 people daily. The dispensary proposed by NuMed would be on the second floor of a building whose entrance would be near Haymarket

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors say the brother of a Chicago Bears Hall of Famer is among 10 people charged with operating an offshore sports gambling business. Casey Urlacher, the brother of linebacker Brian Urlacher, is accused in U.S. District Court of conspiracy and running an illegal

  OGLESBY – The city of Oglesby is between a rock and a hard place with how to move forward with the Seneca Square Project. On Thursday night, Mayor Dom Rivara told officials and residents that the Illinois Department of Natural Resources is giving the city a deadline to commit funds

CHICAGO (Chicago Tribune) — A report says Chicago’s fired police superintendent is receiving a monthly pension of more than $15,800. The Chicago Tribune, citing records it obtained under Illinois’ Freedom of Information Act, reports Eddie Johnson was awarded the pension by the

STREATOR – Road work on East 1st, Colorado, Elm and Wilson Streets are the first in line to be repaired in Streator. City Engineer Jeremy Palm says the general revenue construction project for East 1st street, South Colorado, East Elm and East Wilson will cost the city just over $340,000.

STREATOR – Streator’s Fire Department will be purchasing a self-contained breathing apparatus, through grant funds received last year. In September, the Illinois Department of Homeland Security awarded Streator’s Fire Department with just over $143,600 for 20 breathing

  OTTAWA – A LaSalle man accused of smothering his infant son will stand trial in April. 24-year-old Kenneth Herbst is charged with first-degree murder for the spring 2019 incident in LaSalle where he allegedly suffocated his 2-month-old son. Judge Chris Ryan set trial for April 20th