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LASALLE – Representatives from Illinois Cement spoke to a full crowd Thursday night regarding potential limestone mining. The public hearing at LaSalle City Hall discussed the rezoning and obtaining special use permits in order to obtain enough limestone for forty years of reserves for the

MENDOTA – OSF HealthCare St. Paul is offering Christmas light recycling. OSF HealthCare is hoping to divert contributing waste during the holidays by helping residents recycle unwanted Christmas lights through January. Steve Looney, director of facility planning and operations for OSF Saint

PERU – The city of Peru plans to widen and realign North Peoria Street as well as build a round-about intersection to alleviate congestion. City officials held an open house on Wednesday evening, presenting aerial maps of the proposed project, taking input from the public. The roundabout

PERU – Illinois Valley Community Hospital announced that they are postponing transplant support group meetings. In a release, ICVH announced the Live Life transplant support group will not meeting for the next three months. The group normally meets on the second Monday of each month,

  The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office announced that they have a new phone number for weather and road condition information. The Sheriff’s Office announced in a press release on Tuesday that the new number to call is 815-899-0727 for updated road and weather conditions.

OTTAWA – State and county unemployment rates increased within the past month, according to the Illinois Department of Employment Security. Currently state unemployment is at 4.2 percent, just a tenth of a percent increase compared to last month. However, county unemployment rates scale

PERU – A giant magnet for a new MRI system was lifted through the roof of Illinois Valley Community Hospital on Wednesday. The magnet that will be the heart of the new MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) system at Illinois Valley Community Hospital. It was lifted into place by crane through

Streator High School conducted school safety training Wednesday in conjunction with the Streator Police Department and the Streator Fire Department. The drills and training ran from 11:45 AM to 2:30 PM. There was  a heavy presence of law enforcement and fire department services present at the

MENDOTA – A dog was rescued after falling into a pond in Bureau County Wednesday morning.   The Mendota Fire Department was called to a residence in the 35000 block of 2800 North Rd around 6:40 a.m.   Authorities said the family was walking the leashed dog, described as a Rottweiler on