LASALLE – A holiday event will be filling Pulaski Park in LaSalle full of ghosts and goblins of all ages, as the community will be holding a ‘Hometown Halloween’ event Saturday. A dance performance will kick off the event that begins at 11 AM, along with a barrel train ride for ...Read more
PERU – The Peru Roundabout is over halfway complete. Mayor Scott Harl announced that the roundabout, the first ever in LaSalle County, is already approximately 60% done and was funding using city MFT (Motor Fuel Tax) funds with no debt on the project. A little over $2 million has already ...Read more
NAUVOO, Ill. (AP) — Police say a woman was killed and more than 20 other people were injured over the weekend when a hayrack ride overturned in rural western Illinois. Capt. Jon Dively Jr. of Illinois State Police says troopers were called to the scene in Hancock County on Saturday night after ...Read more
By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois governor again implored residents to take precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Monday during a stop at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in ...Read more
PERU – Bad weather has delayed the full opening of the new roundabout in Peru. North Peoria Street will remain closed from Sunset Drive to Midtown Road until Friday, and Sunset Drive will remain closed until Monday morning, weather permitting. The estimated $3.5 million dollar roundabout ...Read more
PRINCETON – The Bureau, Putnam & Marshall County Health Department announced 28 new cases in the areas they cover on Monday. They say that 22 cases were discovered in Bureau, four in Marshall and two in Putnam County. Since the pandemic began 21 residents in those three counties in ...Read more
STREATOR – The 4th grade students at Centennial Elementary School in Streator will be doing schoolwork from home for the next week and until at least November 4th due to a positive COVID-19 case. Principal Anne McDonnell sent a letter out to parents notifying them that this was being done ...Read more
COVID – PONTIAC – Results that came in over the weekend add forty new cases of COVID-19 to the count in Livingston County. The total are those new cases discovered since Saturday, including in a girl under the age of one. They also say among the new cases two men in their 70’s ...Read more
MARSEILLES – The City of Marseilles announced Monday that their City Hall will be closed for quarantine for the week due to exposure to COVID-19. They said they will be following the Illinois Department of Public Health Guidelines and expect to be re-open next Monday. ...Read more
OTTAWA – More than double the number of ballots that were cast absentee in 2018 have already been turned in to officials in LaSalle County. According to the County Clerk, over 18,400 residents have requested mail in or absentee ballots, with 13,442 being returned already this week. You have ...Read more
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