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CHICAGO (AP) —  Travelers arriving at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport from Wuhan, China will be screened for the respiratory coronavirus. Tuesday’s decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention comes as health officials announced a man in Washington state is infected

STREATOR – Streator Township High School’s board is gearing up for more upgrades anticipated to start this summer. Tuesday night, the board approved the 2020 Life Safety Implementation Project bid at just over $1.5 million. The project consists of air conditioning and heating

STREATOR – Streator High School’s auditorium is on its way to completion and just in time for the spring musical. At Tuesday’s board meeting, Superintendent Matt Seaton said plans are to open just before the spring musical so that students can use the new auditorium to rehearse. The

LASALLE – LaSalle-Peru High School students will have the opportunity to participate in a free heart screening this spring. The Young Hearts for Life Program will be coming to LP high School on April 30th to provide free electrocardiograms to identify high school students at risk for

  LASALLE – After much anticipation, the city of LaSalle will soon be able to finance an over 100 acre expansion of Rotary Park. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced that the $400,000 grant will go towards the Rotary Park Expansion project. Economic Development

OGLESBY – Oglesby’s Police Chief will keep his job after the Commissioner of Public Health and Safety attempted to terminate it last week.  There was standing room only at Oglesby’s city hall Monday night, when the council convened to hear the legal opinions of City Attorney James

MENDOTA – A Mendota man was arrested twice within 24 hours on charges of retail theft and burglary. The Mendota police department say that on Friday they were called to investigate a reported retail theft at a grocery store. The following day, 21-year-old Brandon E. Thompson was arrested at the

MENDOTA – The Friends of the Track Fund Committee made an appearance at Monday night’s Mendota City Council Meeting. A representative from the committee explained that the Elementary School had just resurfaced the track and that the committee was trying to raise half of the cost in order

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a law that eliminates driver’s license suspensions for most non-moving violations. The Democrat signed the measure last week. He says it will allow tens of thousands of motorists to have driving privileges reinstated. That means

CHICAGO (AP) — Police say one man may have killed as many as a dozen Chicago-area girls and young woman in the late ‘70s and early 1980s, and their investigations into his actions and victims indicate how easy it was then for a serial killer to escape detection. Experts say Bruce Lindahl, who