Local Headlines

  DEPUE – Multiple agencies swarmed into the Bureau County community of Depue during the Labor Day holiday for a pair of unrelated structure fires.  The first was a five alarm blaze in the 1100 block of Marquette Street around 1 PM, the second after 3 PM in the 12000 block of 2775th

LOSTANT – An early Saturday morning call to I-39 for a trailer fire left a mess until dawn along the interstate of burnt cheese.    Lostant and Wenona Fire Departments extinguished the blaze at the Route 18 interchange.  No injuries were reported.

SUBLETTE – A child suffered significant burns after a fall Saturday in Lee County.   The Sublette Fire Department and EMS were called around 4:30 PM to Woodhaven Lakes for a report of an injured child.   They say a 3-year-old had fallen into a fire pit and was taken to a Dixon hospital

PERU – The Illinois Valley Food Pantry was able to help fill the shelves to close out summer after the “Fill the Truck” event Friday.    Studstill Media, Hyvee, and Illinois Valley Auto Group all partnered up to not only gather over 3300 lbs of food, plus a sizable cash donation as

  OTTAWA – OSF HealthCare donated $1,650 to Ottawa Township High School athletic programs. This donation is a result of the sports physical fundraiser that took place at Ottawa Township High School on May 30. “Ottawa High School is extremely fortunate to have a partnership with OSF

OGLESBY – Dynamic Controls Inc.  donated $10,000 to the Illinois Valley Community College Foundation to endow a scholarship for students seeking the Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning  certificate. The first recipient of the scholarship, Guadalupe “Gio” Ortiz of Spring Valley,

PERU – Illinois Valley Community Hospital is proud to be the home of the Illinois Valley’s first human milk depot. Pasteurized donor human milk in an important nutritional therapy for many at-risk Neonatal Intensive Care Unit babies, as it provides numerous benefits in the absence of

SANDWICH- A Sandwich man was arrested after allegedly threatening another man with a pitchfork.   The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office day they were called around 8 PM Saturday to the 800 block of Gletty Road to take a report from a person who claimed 75-year-old John R. Perkins of Sandwich

  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Dozens of teachers from Spain will work in Illinois classrooms this school year under a visitor exchange program. State education officials say the state has a shortage of bilingual teachers. The teachers from Spain will work in 19 school districts including

CHICAGO (AP) — The case of a suburban Chicago teenager who killed himself after being confronted at his high school about whether he made a video of himself having sex with a classmate raised uncomfortable questions about how aggressively school officials should question kids suspected of