OTTAWA – Illinois Valley Community College’s Continuing Education Center will be offering a Food Service Sanitation course face-to-face from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Aug. 18-27 at the Ottawa Center in Ottawa. The course assists the manager or potential manager in
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OTTAWA – OSF HealthCare Saint Elizabeth Medical Center has been named to Newsweek magazine’s 2020 list of Best Maternity Care Hospitals. The distinction recognizes facilities that have excelled in providing care to mothers, newborns, and their families as verified by the 2019
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CHICAGO (AP) — The mayor of a suburban Chicago village is facing federal bribery charges in connection with a politically connected red-light camera firm. An indictment unveiled Friday reveals Crestwood Mayor Louis Presta is also charged with filing false tax returns and lying to the FBI and
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A central Illinois barbershop that became the target of protests by racial justice activists has closed. The News-Gazette in Champaign reports Michael Long, the owner of Rogue Barber Co. in Champaign, announced in a now-deleted Facebook posting that the business was a
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OTTAWA – The Vote By Mail application forms have started to be delivered to residents in LaSalle County this week for the November General Election. Registered voters simply need to sign their pre-filled applications and send them to the LaSalle County Clerk’s Office by October 29 to
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DIXON – A man suspected of crashing his car into a Lee County Sheriff’s Deputy vehicle and fleeing on foot has not been captured. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is on the lookout for 34-year-old Donald E. Powell who was last seen around Dixon. Sheriff John Simonton stated they
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OTTAWA – Cases are on the rise of COVID-19 across North Central Illinois after a relative calm for a few weeks in mid-July. Friday LaSalle County reported 25 new infections, ahead of the eight reported in Bureau County. Livingston County tallied 5 more positive test results.
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MENDOTA – In the last seven days there have been six COVID-19 related deaths among residents and another 77 residents and staff have tested positive at Heritage Health in Mendota. The facility in Mendota is not alone in reporting new cases, with a pair of infections among residents or
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PERU – A Peru man is facing drug charges after being arrested by the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team. They say that Thursday evening they conducted a buy/bust operation in the 2900 block of 4th St in Peru. During the investigation, agents made a controlled purchase of less
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health Friday announced 2,084 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in Illinois, including 21 additional confirmed deaths, 11 of those from the Chicagoland area. Currently, the IDPH is reporting a total of 190,508 cases, including 7,613 deaths, in
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