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. The city of DePue on Tuesday announced the issuance of the order by ...Read more
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 Streator to a farm family on February 4th, 1906. ...Read more
OTTAWA – A father and son were arrested over the weekend after allegedly jumping into the Buffalo Rock Park Bison pen. According to Conservation Police Sergeant Phil Wire, a 47-year-old Kewanee man was keeping watch when his son, a 28-year-old from Canton, jumped into the pen with the two ...Read more
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 than eight ...Read 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 on Friday in the 100 block of Belle Rive Road and East 30th Road ...Read more
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 closing of the property on Shooting Park Road and Route 251. The money ...Read more
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 of the University of Illinois Police ...Read more
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 nine open houses to discuss treatment strategies at infested ...Read more
OGLESBY – The parents of a 21-year-old Sheridan man who was killed at an Aurora factory shooting have created a scholarship in his memory. The Trevor Melvin Wehner Scholarship will be awarded at Illinois Valley Community College to a female and male student annually for tuition, ...Read more
STREATOR – Streator’s city council will be implementing a cannabis sales tax. Last month, the council amended its zoning code to allow recreational retailers to operate in certain commercial districts. If approved, a 3% tax will be passed after Wednesday’s city council meeting. ...Read more
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