OGLESBY – A free COVID-19 Vaccination and booster clinic will be coming to Illinois Valley Community College Tuesday. Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines will be available as well as Pfizer and Moderna booster shots for individuals 18 and older. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine,
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CHICAGO – The Illinois Department of Human Services announced that it has awarded $4 million in grant funding to support the Certified Recovery Support Specialist Success program. The CRSS Success program prepares students for entry-level positions as behavioral health workers, specifically
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OGLESBY – A free COVID-19 vaccination clinic is coming to Illinois Valley Community College. The clinic will be from 10 AM to 2 PM Tuesday in Room CTC124. Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines will be available as well as Pfizer and Moderna booster shots for individuals 18 and
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Agriculture held a public meeting February 10th allowing public comment regarding a proposed referendum for the Illinois Corn Marketing Board. The referendum proposes raising the corn checkoff rate from 5/8 of a cent to 7/8 of a cent per bushel.
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STREATOR – Questions remain unanswered in what happened to 7-year-old Dalton Mesarchik, who was reported missing on March 26th, 2003. The next day his body was found along the Vermillion River south of Streator, but no suspects or further clues have turned up in the years since. The
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MENDOTA – One man was discovered deceased in a home that was the scene of an apparent gunfire incident in Mendota on Thursday. The Mendota Police say they were originally called to the 500 block of 12th Ave after a resident noted a gun shot hole on their vehicle. Neighbors,
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On Thursday, Former President Donald Trump filed a civil lawsuit against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and others, alleging a conspiracy against him in 2016. The lawsuit names 28 individuals and organizations as defendants, alleging they worked
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President Joe Biden announced after the NATO and Group of Seven meetings in Brussels on Thursday that the United States will accept up to 100,000 Ukrainian war refugees. Additionally, more than $1 billion in new funding will also be provided for humanitarian assistance for victims of
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NEPONSET – The Bradford man who was killed in a rural Bureau County crash has been identified. The Bureau County Sheriff’s Office say around 5 AM Tuesday a vehicle was traveling east on Kentville road near Neponset when for unknown reasons it left the roadway and came to rest in a field. The
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PERU – Six local teens from the ILVY Dolphins Swim Team are heading to the National Swim meet in Greensboro, North Carolina this week. Peyton, Caden, Joey, Owen, Nolan, and Luke will be swimming a total of 20 events throughout next week. They all will also swim time trials through
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