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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Police, in cooperation with the Illinois Department of Transportation and the Chicago Department of Transportation, completed phase one of the Automated License Plate Reader project by installing 99 license plate reading cameras on the Dan Ryan Expressway.

STREATOR – Beginning today masks are optional for students at Streator High School. At a special meeting on Monday night, the Streator High School Board voted in favor of a Sangamon County Judge’s ruling against school mask mandates. The decision made by Judge Rylene Grischow last week

Police in Texas confirmed that a shooting spree in Corsicana, Texas killed four people (including a child), and injured three others before the gunman took his own life. Officers said the gunman was responsible for two homicides each, at two different scenes, along with injuring three

Eighteen people were rescued Sunday afternoon from an ice floe that broke away from land near Catawba Island on Lake Erie in northwest Ohio.  According to the U.S Coast Guard, the ice floe broke away from land while people were snowmobiling and riding ATVs on the lake just after 12 p.m. The

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health is preparing to make COVID-19 vaccine available to those ages 6 months through 4 years after Pfizer-BioNTech submitted data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asking to amend its emergency use authorization to allow children younger

STREATOR – Even though a central Illinois judge issued a temporary restraining order that prevents school districts from complying with Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s mandate that requires students to wear masks in the classroom on Friday, many area schools say they are not bound by that order. 

EARLVILLE – In a letter sent to parents from Earlville Community Unit School District 9, they indicated that they will be temporarily suspending the enforcement of the mask mandate and exclusion for asymptomatic close contacts for all district students.  They noted the district is not a

OTTAWA – Even though a central Illinois judge issued a temporary restraining order that prevents school districts from complying with Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s mandate that requires students to wear masks in the classroom on Friday, many area schools say they are not bound by that order.

  STREATOR – The Streator Fire Department quickly responded to a house fire on Friday that limited damage to a home. According to officials, they were called to the 200 block of West Broadway Street for a report of a house fire just after 7:30 am. Firefighters responded in