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OTTAWA- LaSalle County State’s Attorney Karen Donnelly says the county could allocate over $300,000 per every billion made in a settlement with major opioid makers. Donnelly recently filed a comprehensive 320 page complaint against the manufacturers and distributors of opioids to seek costs

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — FBI agents carried materials in bankers’ boxes and grocery bags out of the Illinois Capitol building on Tuesday, and multiple media outlets reported that and other raids were linked to a Democratic state senator. FBI spokesman John Althen said the agents were in

LASALLE -Alderman voted to approve an ordinance approving a redevelopment agreement between LaSalle and Kaskaskia Development, LLC, and CL Real Estate Development, LLC at Monday night’s city council meeting. Although some alderman expressed concern for parking at the hotel, Nathan Watson,

STREATOR – One bedroom and the living room suffered damage but nobody was home at the scene of a house fire Monday night in Streator.   The Streator Fire Department say a neighbor walking their dog discovered smoke and called 911 to report the fire in the 600 block of South Otter Street

SPRING VALLEY – Spring Valley’s City Council approved imposing a municipal tax on cannabis. At Monday’s city council meeting, an ordinance amending the city’s municipal code by enacting a cannabis retailers occupation tax was passed. Attorney Jim Andreoni says the state will be

  LASALLE – LaSalle-Peru High School’s buildings and grounds committee is putting solar panels back on the discussion table. Over the summer, Superintendent Steven Wroblewski says he was approached by a company that’s willing to invest $11 million to install a solar garden

LAS VEGAS – An Ottawa man received an award for excellence for his reporting of the first full-time news reporter to wear a traditional Muslim head scarf on air.  The Voice of America’s Midwest correspondent, Kane Farabaugh, received the award for excellence at the Religion News

OTTAWA – Flu season is right around the corner and the LaSalle County Health Department is hosting clinics this week. The health department has received its shipment of flu vaccine and will host the flu clinics from 1 to 4 p.m. on Thursday. Seasonal Influenza Vaccine and Influenza High Dose

  STREATOR – Streator’s Elementary School District is no longer on the state’s financial watch list. According to Superintendent Lisa Parker, the Illinois State Board of Education voted last week to remove Streator Elementary School District #44 off of their list of