MENDOTA- The parking lot of the Mendota Civic Center was filled with families on bicycles on Saturday as they participated in the annual Bike Rodeo with the Mendota Police Department. A cone course was laid out with various traffic signs cyclists would encounter in the community. ...Read more
PERU – 52 Illinois Valley Community Hospital employees were honored at the an annual service awards dinner, Thursday. The 45-year Honorees were Carol Myer of LaSalle, a nurse at the IVCH Peru Medical Clinic,. Nancy Postula of Utica with the IVCH ENT and Allergy Center, and Deb Redd of ...Read more
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — An overnight explosion and fire at a plant in Illinois has injured four people. Waukegan Fire Marshal Steven Lenzi says the explosion happened around 9:30 p.m. Friday at AB Specialty Silicones plant in the community 50 miles north of Chicago. Four workers were taken to ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Nine state workers who are no longer members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees are seeking the return of some the fees paid the union. In the lawsuit filed Wednesday, the Liberty Justice Center contends more than 2,700 state employees are ...Read more
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he is willing to take initial steps toward fortifying a lock-and-dam system on a Chicago-area waterway so it can protect Lake Michigan from invasive Asian carp. Pritzker, a Democrat, told the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a letter ...Read more
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A Peoria man was sentenced to 95 years in prison in connection with a 2015 botched robbery that left a 14-year-old boy dead. The (Peoria) Journal Star reports 24-year-old Alex F. Collins was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted murder in the death of Peoria High ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s vehicle impound policies are being challenged in a class-action lawsuit. Attorneys for the Institute for Justice claim in a lawsuit Tuesday the city is holding vehicles ransom until the owners pay fines that have accumulated, even though a final judgment ...Read more
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Officials say a charter plane traveling from Cuba to north Florida ended up in a river at the end of a runway. A Naval Air Station Jacksonville news release says a Boeing 737 arriving from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, crashed into the St. Johns River Friday ...Read more
PERU – Water is expected to recede in parts of Peru after the crest of the Illinois River, Friday. According to Mayor Scott Harl, as of 9:00 a.m. this morning, the crest was at 32 feet, and is expected to recede. Harl says constructing a wall to protect the water treatment plant cost the ...Read more
WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) — A judge has appointed a special public defender to represent an Illinois man charged in the death of his 5-year-old son. Special Public Defender Henry Sugden was appointed Friday to the case of 60-year-old Andrew Freund Sr. of Crystal Lake. He is charged along with JoAnn ...Read more
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