PERU – Starting Wednesday afternoon through Friday, North Peoria Street will be closed from Sunset Drive to Midtown Road and Plank Road will be closed from Luther Drive to Schuyler Drive for road construction. Residential homes located on Terrace Drive and Plank Road will be accessible
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OTTAWA – An early morning traffic stop in Ottawa led to an arrest for cocaine on Tuesday. The Ottawa Police Department say they stopped a vehicle allegedly speeding around 2:00 AM on Marquette Street. During the investigation, they discovered between 1 and 15 grams of purported cocaine.
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SPRINGFIELD – Two of the regions designated by the Illinois Department of Public Health will be facing stricter mitigation measures to help control the growing number of COVID-19 cases. Regions 7 and 8, making up Kane, DuPage, Will and Kankakee counties, will see an end Friday to indoor
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PERU – The Peru Fire Department were called to the scene of a rollover crash on Water Street Tuesday. Around 1:30 PM authorities arrived at the intersection of Pike and Water where a sedan was on its roof over the railroad tracks just feet from tumbling into the Illinois River. According to
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CHAMPAIGN – The Illinois State Police are looking for a vehicle that may have been involved in a fatal collision with a cyclist earlier this month. They say that on October 11th in Champaign County three bicyclists were traveling on the roadway when for unknown reasons two of them were
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PRINCETON – Bureau, Marshall, and DeKalb Counties all reported new COVID-19 cases, their respective health departments report. Bureau County saw 8 more cases and Marshall County reported 2, while DeKalb saw 47. Since the start of the pandemic, the Bureau, Putnam, & Marshall County
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OTTAWA – 22 additional cases of COVID-19 were reported by the LaSalle County Health Department on Tuesday. This makes 2,212 total cases in the county with all but 645 now recovered. Throughout Illinois, 3,714 new coronavirus cases were confirmed with 41 additional deaths. Overall, 350,875
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PONTIAC – Twenty more residents of Livingston County and eight inmates at Pontiac Correctional Center have tested positive for COVID-19. Sadly, one more resident has also died due to complications related to COVID-19. The individual was a male in his 80s. All of the newly infected are
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Employment Security reported that statewide the job market has improved slightly during September, but still trails the national average. The United States unemployment rate was at 7.7%, however, the Illinois rate was at 9.8% for the month, down
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SERENA – The Serena School District, including Serena, Sheridan and Harding will be switching to at home learning for the next two weeks due to the rise of COVID-19 infections in the community. Officials say they hope to return on November 2nd. All club meetings and athletic practices are
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