COMPTON – The new water tower for the village of Compton has been erected. It will be some time before it is put into service, but the major construction on the corner of Main & 4th Street is complete. The village received a loan of $680,000 and a grant of $956,000 from the U.S.
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SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health Sunday announced 658 new cases of COVID-19, including 23 additional confirmed deaths statewide. Since the pandemic began there have been a total of 136,762 cases, including 6,647 deaths, in 101 counties in Illinois. The preliminary
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OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Health Department on Sunday say two new cases of Coronavirus Disease have been discovered. They say two men, one in his teens and another in his 40’s have tested positive for the disease. Since the pandemic began, 139 residents of the county have been
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OGLESBY – Illinois Valley Community College graduate Devanshi Patel of La Salle was honered with college’s Frederick W. Matthiessen Award. Patel is transferring to Northern Illinois University this fall and plans to eventually attend medical school and become a physician. She was the
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OTTAWA – OSF HealthCare has opened wound care clinics in Mendota, Ottawa and Streator. “We were referring a lot of our patients off to different towns in surrounding communities for wound care, and when you’re in a rural setting, just driving down the road 30 miles can be burden,”
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PONTIAC – A Livingston County man is dead after a Friday night motorcycle crash. Authorities say that around 9 PM they were called to Old Route 66 in rural Pontiac for a single vehicle motorcycle crash. The Livingston County Coroner says that 54-year-old Scott N. Lightbody was
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PONTIAC – One more resident of Livingston County has tested positive for COVID- 19. On Saturday the Livingston County Health Department announced a man in his 20’s tested positive, who is recovering at home in isolation. As of June 20, the department has received 2,145 COVID-19 test
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SPRINGFIELD – Illinois public health officials unfortunately have more on their plate than just the coronavirus. The Illinois Department of Public Health reported on Saturday that 23 cases across Illinois have been confirmed of what is a multi state outbreak of a food borne parasite.
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OGLESBY – A power outage that lasted about an hour Saturday afternoon in Oglesby was caused reportedly by a bird. Commissioner Jason Curran said that the Ameren substation near the fire department went down, causing the city and many other areas outside of town to lose power around
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CHICAGO – The Illinois Department of Public Health announced 45 deaths and 634 cases in the past 24 hours. On Saturday, public health officials released the latest daily data, which was an increase of 16 deaths but a decrease of 28 cases since Saturday a week ago. 41 of the 45 deaths came
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