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OTTAWA – Ottawa is hoping to relieve traffic congestion near railroads. The city, U.S Silica, IDOT and Hanson Services are all in agreement to perform a railroad study to relieve traffic congestion when trains are switching cars and find an alternative place to assemble. Mayor Dan Aussem

OTTAWA – Soybean yield could be down unless we get perfect weather from here on out, according to LaSalle County’s Farm Bureau President David Isermann. After an unseasonably wet planting season for corn, some farmers in the county turned to prevent plant and moved on to soybeans. But

          MORTON, Ill. (AP) — Budget-conscious eaters could be cringing: Police say a truck carrying ramen noodles overturned in central Illinois. The driver from Columbus, Ohio, apparently was driving too fast Wednesday night on a ramp connecting two interstates near

PERU – A man was arrested on cocaine charges, Friday after an investigation by the Peru Police Department. According to authorities, 39-year-old Kilman R. Johnson of Peru was taken into custody at 2 p.m. by detectives with the Peru Police Department’s Special Investigation unit on a

T‪ISKILWA – A building was leveled in what authorities say was an explosion Friday morning in rural Bureau County. According to a Bureau County Sheriff’s Deputy, the cause of the blast has not been determined in the 19000 block of Plow Creek Road. Tiskilwa, Bureau and Princeton

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker is seeking a federal agriculture disaster declaration for all of Illinois following the state’s soggy planting season. Pritzker says in his request to the U.S. Department of Agriculture that winter snow melt and record rain caused rivers to

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The 183rd Wing of the Illinois Air National Guard could start flying F-16s again after spending years repairing them if the state’s two U.S. senators have their way. U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth and Sen. Dick Durbin have proposed an amendment to the National Defense

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The attorney for an ex-lawmaker who won a dispute this week over General Assembly pay says the lawsuit was to “vindicate the independence of each legislator.” Michael Scotti III represents former Elgin Democratic state Sen. Michael Noland. His 2017 lawsuit

CHICAGO (AP) — More than a dozen people have been injured after Chicago police say a fight at the annual fireworks show caused panic at Navy Pier. Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says three people were stabbed during the fight that followed the Fourth of July display, which draws

SPRINGFIELD – During the Independence Day holiday weekend and throughout the busy summer boating season, Illinois Conservation Police remind boat operators and passengers to stay sober and wear life jackets while on the water. “The last week in June was a particularly sad week for our