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PAW PAW – The Paw Paw School District announced their plan for a return to classes this fall.   In a release sent to parents, in building students and staff will be required to wear masks and screening for symptoms could occur.   The students will attend from 8 AM – 1:45 PM.  For

OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Health Department announced Monday evening that five county residents contracted Covid-19 disease in the past day.  The newly infected consists of people in their 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s.  Four people are newly recovered, according to health officials, and

PRINCETON – The Bureau, Putnam, and Marshall County Health Departments announced 4 more coronavirus cases on Monday. The health department reported that these individuals are a female and male in their 30s recovering at home in Bureau County, a female in their 90’s hospitalized in Bureau

DEKALB – 17 more cases of COVID-19 were reported in DeKalb County. The DeKalb County Health Department has confirmed 804 cases in total from the county, along with 24 deaths. The IDPH still classifies Pine Acres Rehab and Living Center and Willow Crest Nursing Pavilion as having open

SPRINGFIELD – The latest county unemployment numbers have been released by the state, and they show strong job gains.  LaSalle County improved nearly 5 percentage points, from an unemployment rate in May of 18.4% to 13.5% in June.  Bureau County has one of the lowest rates in the area,

DEKALB- The DeKalb Police Department have opened a homicide investigation into the death of a man who spent nearly a month in the hospital after a June beating.  Authorities say on June 16th 33-year-old Marcus Johnson was beaten by individuals in the 800 block of Ridge Drive.  He was taken to a

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 1,231 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, along with 18 additional deaths. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the state has had 172,655 total cases with 7,416 deaths. Area counties are currently seeing open outbreaks in five