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STREATOR – More than 680 Illinois school districts, including Streator and Grand Ridge will benefit from grants towards school libraries. Secretary of State and State Librarian Jesse White awarded over 1.2 million in the FY 2020 School District Library Grant Program. Streator Elementary

PERU – One more police officer will be patrolling the streets of Peru. On Monday, Peru Mayor Scott Harl swore in and welcomed William Sommer to the Peru Police Department. According to Harl, prior to the new position, he served at Tonica and Spring Valley departments as well as the Putnam

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Agriculture’s Director resigned, effective yesterday. According to a released by Governor J.B. Pritzker’s administration, he requested Director John Sullivan’s resignation this weekend due to being disturbed that the then-Senator

  SPRINGFIELD – Increased enforcement from the Illinois State Police begins this week in honor of a fallen state trooper. On January 12, 2019, ISP Trooper Christopher Lambert was on duty assisting a road-side incident when he was killed by another vehicle that failed to stop.

SPRINGFIELD – 2019 is said to be the worst year for corn and soybeans in over 5 years. According to the United States Department of Agriculture’s final crop yield numbers, corn and soybean production hasn’t been this low since 2012 and 2013 respectively. Corn and soybean

MENDOTA – A Sunday evening incident involving a knife and two men allegedly being stabbed sent one man to the hospital in Mendota. The Mendota Police Department say they were called to OSF Saint Paul Medical Center and discovered one subject with a stab wound. After an investigation,

STREATOR – A Sunday evening fire in Streator was quickly extinguished by the Streator Fire Department. Just after 5 PM they were called to the 900 block of East 12th Street for a home that had smoke and flames coming from the roof. Crews arrived two minutes after the call and discovered no

OREGON, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois landmark known as the Eternal Indian statue is finally complete after years of planning and fundraising. The Rockford Register Star reports the scaffolding surrounding the sculpture, also known as Black Hawk, is being removed and should be taken down within

PEKIN, Ill. (AP) — Officials say a printing glitch is responsible for some residents receiving up to eight voter registration cards recently. Tazewell County Clerk John Ackerman tells The (Peoria) Journal Star that a printer froze and got multiple orders to reprint. That led to duplicate cards

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Pentagon says one of the two soldiers killed Saturday in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb was from Illinois. On Sunday, military officials identified the soldier as 21-year-old Pfc. Miguel A. Villalon of Joliet.  He was assigned to 307th Brigade Engineer Battalion,