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STREATOR – Five local fire departments were included in the 90 Illinois departments that will share over $88,000 through a grant by Illinois American Water. Recipients of the grant include, Streator Fire Department, Long Point Community Volunteer Fire Protection District, Leonore Volunteer

STREATOR – Five local fire departments were included in the 90 Illinois departments that will share over $88,000 through a grant by Illinois American Water. Recipients of the grant include, Streator Fire Department, Long Point Community Volunteer Fire Protection District, Leonore Volunteer

  CHICAGO (AP) — A jury on Friday convicted a man who prosecutors said plotted then tried to cover up the 2015 slaying of a 9-year-old boy who was lured into a Chicago alley with the promise of a juice box. Corey Morgan showed no emotion as a clerk announced that he was guilty of

STREATOR – A quick response to a call for a fire Thursday evening in Streator helped limit damage to a body shop.  According to the Streator Fire Department they were called around 8 PM to the 700 block of East Hickory Street for a fire that was already going through the roof.  The blaze

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — More than 2,200 sets of preserved fetal remains found in the Illinois garage of a late Indiana abortion doctor have been returned to Indiana. Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill said Thursday that the fetal remains found last month at Dr. Ulrich Klopfer’s Will

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities are searching for a man who attacked an 18-year-old Chicago city bus passenger with a metal cane while screaming racist and anti-immigrant slurs at him. The Chicago Tribune reports that the attack happened Wednesday in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the city’s

CHICAGO (AP) — The family of a man facing an Illinois terrorism charge for plowing an SUV into a suburban Chicago mall says he shouldn’t be called a “terrorist” because there was no political reason behind his action. Police say Javier Garcia, 22, was charged with felony criminal damage

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago judge is expected to decide whether to let a former U.S. attorney stay on as special prosecutor examining the dismissal of charges against actor Jussie Smollett. The hearing Friday comes after Dan Webb revealed he co-hosted a fundraiser for Kim Foxx and donated $1,000

MENDOTA- The overtime is piling up and the Fire Department in Mendota is stretched thin.   That’s according to members of the department and the Mendota City Council who met Thursday afternoon to try to find solutions to being understaffed.    Options discussed were bringing in a private

SPRINGFIELD – Deer hunters statewide in Illinois are encouraged to allow samples to be taken for chronic wasting disease testing from adult deer they harvest. In LaSalle County, the following sites are currently serving as self-serve drop-off sites where hunters can fill out a sample