PEORIA – OSF HealthCare is raising minimum wage to $12 dollars for its workers, effective February 24th. According to OSF HealthCare’s CEO Bob Sehring, many service workers have fallen behind because minimum wage across the country has not kept up. More than 1,100 Mission Partners ...Read more
OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Board voted Thursday to appoint board member and circuit clerk, Jim Olson as County Board Chairmen to succeed Jerry Hicks’, per his recommendation. Hicks confirmed earlier this week that he is stepping down as chairmen, effective Friday March 1st. Olson ...Read more
CHANNAHON, Ill. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois has been deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border with his Air National Guard unit. Kinzinger’s communications director, Maura Gillespie, posted on social media Wednesday that the congressman was deployed earlier this week ...Read more
MOLINE, Ill. (AP) — A boom being used at an interstate bridge over the Mississippi River near Moline, Illinois has fallen into the water. Iowa Department of Transportation officials said Wednesday the agency is working to remove the lattice boom of the crane working at the Interstate 74 bridge ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Odds may still favor the eventual construction of former President Barack Obama’s $500 million museum and library in a public park along Chicago’s lakeshore, but it’s no longer a sure thing in the face of a formidable legal challenge by a parks-advocacy ...Read more
AURORA – A Chicago man was taken into custody after allegedly threatening casino staff at the Hollywood Casino in Aurora, promoting an evacuation. According to Illinois State Police, on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. 29-year-old Mustadin Muadinov was detained by officials, after allegedly making a ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago-based foundation funded by a network of U.S. Muslim donors has given a total of $625,000 to roughly two dozen organizations nationwide it recognizes for improving Islamic life. Pillars Fund on Tuesday announced the 26 grants to nonprofit groups in nine states and the ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — The wife of a white Chicago police officer who fatally shot black teenager Laquan McDonald says her husband has been assaulted by inmates in his cell at a Connecticut prison. Tiffany Van Dyke said Wednesday that Jason Van Dyke had been placed in the prison’s general ...Read more
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man accused of kidnapping his girlfriend and their 10-year-old daughter then killing a man during an attempted carjacking was shot to death following a police chase through Missouri and Illinois, authorities said Wednesday. The chase began Tuesday evening in Jefferson ...Read more
LASALLE – The City of LaSalle will start a sewer separation project in April. City Engineer Brian Brown says the city is getting rid of all cross connections between storm and sanitary sewers due to combined sewer overflow. Brown says west of St. Vincent from Lincoln Elementary School ...Read more
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