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STREATOR – Streator High School’s choir groups will be putting on a Folk themed Winter Concert at 7 p.m. on Thursday. The concert and choir groups will sing an array of folk songs from different counties in

PERU – The city of Peru is taking extra measures at its waste, water treatment plant in the event of a flood. After news of availability for funding with the Illinois Emergency Management Association, the city will

    SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker is proposing a $40.7 billion state budget. He dressed it up Wednesday by dangling the prospect of a $1.4 billion revenue boost if voters approve a radical income-tax

OTTAWA – A Joliet man faces drug charges and attempting to flee authorities on Sunday. According to the Ottawa Police Department, 21-year-old Corey Dusean Ross is charged with unlawful possession with intent to deliver ecstasy and aggravated

MENDOTA- Mendota Mayor David Boelk announced that fourth ward alderman Bill Hunt will retire later in the month. Boelk expresses regret at having to announce Hunt’s resignation, as he was a great asset to the city of

CHICAGO (AP) — Health officials say two new cases of Legionnaires’ disease have been reported at a suburban Chicago senior living center, bringing the outbreak’s total cases to five, including one previous fatal case. The Lake County

STREATOR – Streator High School will be hosting up to 20 exchange students next school year. At Tuesday night’s boards meeting, a contract renewal was passed with Foreign Services Group, Ltd., to enroll up to 20 Chinese

CHICAGO (AP) — Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is out of prison hours after his sentence for political corruption was commuted by President Donald Trump. Reporters and onlookers were on hand Tuesday as the now silver-haired Blagojevich

DEPUE, Ill. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued an administrative order to those responsible to clean up contaminated soil at a site near DePue, where a zinc smelter and fertilizer plant was once located.

STREATOR – February 18th is Pluto Day, celebrating its existence and the Streator-native who discovered it. Today marks 90 years since Clyde Tombaugh discovered the planet in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Arizona. Tombaugh was born in

CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump commuted what he called the “ridiculous” 14-year prison sentence handed out to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for political corruption. The president’s decision clears the way for Blagojevich’s release after more

OTTAWA – A man killed as a result of a single-vehicle accident near Millington has been identified. The LaSalle County Coroner on Tuesday said that 49-year-old William W. Davis, of Newark, is dead after a single-vehicle crash

  PERU – Property located behind CVS in Peru will soon be a car wash. At Monday nights city council meeting, Chairmen of Finance and Safety Service, Mike Radkte announces that Peru received over $538,000 for the

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Three law enforcement officials will be honored for their work investigating the killer of a visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois. Sgt. James Carter, Detective Eric Stiverson and telecommunicator Kenny Costa

  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois officials’ plan to combat infestations of the gypsy moth will be the focus of several upcoming meetings in the northern part of the state. The Illinois Department of Agriculture has planned