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  STREATOR – The city of Streator has selected a person to fill a vacancy on the council. 37-year-old Jason Darby who manages Streator Eagle 6 Theater,  will be Streator City Council’s latest member. Darby says after being vocal about wanting changes in Streator, he decided he

MARSEILLES – One man was taken to a Peoria hospital after a stabbing in Marseilles Tuesday.  The Marseilles Police Department report that they were called to the 500 block of Wallace Street around 8:15 PM where they located a 54-year-old rural Marseilles man with apparent stab wounds to

    STREATOR – Streator’s ambulance service provider is asking the city for financial support. Officials for Advanced Medical Transport pitched their request to council members for contributions to maintain support to the greater Streator area. Vice President of finance Tim

On Tuesday, Second gentleman Doug Emhoff was escorted out of an event by a Secret Service agent because of a reported “security threat.”  Emhoff’s wife, Vice President Kamala Harris, was not with him at the event taking place at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. in

A 17-year-old was arrested in connection to a homicide investigation that led to the death of Amir Locke, who was shot and killed by a Minneapolis police officer last week during a predawn “no-knock” raid. The teenager was identified as Locke’s cousin in court documents.

OTTAWA – With February being American Heart Month, the LaSalle County Health Department wants to remind residents that heart disease is the number one killer of women in Illinois, and the U.S. While heart disease has traditionally been seen as a “man’s disease”’ one in three women

CHICAGO – According to state officials, thousands of Illinois residents missed out on the federal Earned Income Tax Credit and State Earned Tax Credit in 2020. To be eligible for EITC, taxpayers must meet certain income and residency qualifications and file a tax return, even if they do not

STREATOR – Over the last two years, Illinois American Water helped more than 15,500 residential customers receive financial assistance to help keep water service flowing. The H2O Help to Others program offers financial assistance to residential customers in need. The program is administered

MENDOTA – The next big public artwork display in Mendota reached an important milestone, with over half of the funding already raised for the half sized replica of an important building in the city’s history.   Michelle Wade spoke Tuesday night, giving an update to the community and

At least one person was killed and another was injured in a shooting at a Fred Meyer grocery store in Washington on Monday afternoon. The suspect, identified by police as Aaron Christopher Kelly, 39, was taken into custody late Monday in connection with the shooting at the Fred Meyer store in