OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Health Department received confirmation that mosquitoes from Ottawa tested positive for West Nile virus. The mosquitoes were collected on September 3rd and Environmental Health staff were able to conduct the confirmatory test on the mosquitoes at the Health ...Read more
PONTIAC – Four more residents of Livingston County have tested positive for coronavirus disease. The Livingston County Health Department on Thursday say a woman in her 60’s is currently hospitalized battling COVID-19. Three other new cases were recovering at home in isolation. ...Read more
PRINCETON – The Bureau, Putnam and Marshall County Health Department on Thursday announced 18 new cases of COVID-19, including an infection in a toddler. This brings the total since the pandemic began to 427 cases, with sixty-nine of those cases coming in the last seven days. Bureau County ...Read more
OTTAWA – Another LaSalle County resident, a male in his 80’s, has died from COVID-19 related complications. The LaSalle County Health Department announced the 51st death in the county on Thursday, along with 15 additional cases. Statewide, the IDPH reported 1,360 new cases along with 25 ...Read more
SUBLETTE – A farm shed suffered serious damage in a fire in rural Lee County on Wednesday. The Sublette and Amboy Fire Departments were called to the 200 block of Rockyford Road west of Sublette around 5 PM for a metal shed that had a significant fire at one end. It took about five minutes ...Read more
PERU – Profiler Phil Chalmers said he will be speaking with Dellmus Colvin again today to try to confirm the date and location of the remains of the person he claims he had killed sometime between 1999-2005 in LaSalle County. The 61-year-old is currently serving a life sentence in an Ohio ...Read more
PONTIAC – Twenty-two more residents of Livingston County tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday. That makes up almost half of the 49 active cases the Livingston County Health Department reported. Since the pandemic began, they have recorded four COVID-19 related deaths among residents. All ...Read more
By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer Research is suggesting that anxiety and depression are rising among Americans amid the coronavirus pandemic. A study published Wednesday is the latest to suggest an uptick. Half of U.S. adults surveyed reported at least some signs of depression. The rate was ...Read more
PRINCETON – Bureau and DeKalb Counties both announced additional COVID-19 cases. On Wednesday, Bureau County reported six new cases were recovering at their homes, ranging in age from their teens to their 60’s. DeKalb County also announced 18 additional cases. Since the start of the ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public reported over 2,000 new COVID-19 cases in the state on Wednesday. The 2,128 cases were announced along with 27 additional deaths. Illinois has seen 238,643 cases since the start of the pandemic, as well as 8,091 deaths. The seven-day ...Read more
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