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  Illinois Valley Community College nursing student Sara Legrenzi of La Salle earned the $1,000 Oglesby Elks Lodge #2360 Albert Delvallee Memorial Scholarship. Legrenzi was joined by Elks’ member Cindy Cadiagini at the IVCC Foundation Scholarship Reception. In total, 268 students ...Read more

PONTIAC –  Multiple fire departments were on the scene Saturday of a large fire in the 300 block of North Chicago Street in Pontiac.   According to the Reading Fire Department, a warehouse behind a furniture store was fully engulfed around noon.  The four alarm fire brought Streator, ...Read more

MENDOTA – The Mendota Rotary Club gifted thesauruses to Lincoln School Students on Friday.   The pupils were given the books as a way to help grow, broaden, expand, bolster, and fill out their vocabulary.   The third grade learners were issued copies of the publication as a present from ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD –  Illinoisans no longer need to visit Driver Services facilities to purchase their driving records due to a new program launched by Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White. Motorists may now purchase a copy of their driving record online by visiting ...Read more

OTTAWA – Illinois Valley PADS in Ottawa is running short on lunch items. According to the homeless shelter, they are packing 62 lunches a day and are running scarce of items to pack. You can make a donation at the shelter located on 1120 Canal Street, before 9 a.m. Saturday or at Lily Pads ...Read more

CONCORD TWP – A construction worker was struck by a vehicle in a construction zone in Concord Township on Thursday. According to the Bureau County Sheriff’s Department, a 78-year-old Tampico woman was traveling north bound on Route 40, when she allegedly struck a construction worker ...Read more

  JONESBORO, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man who rigged a shotgun to a rope attached to the door of a shed on his property in 2018 has been convicted of first-degree murder in the death of another man who tried to enter. A Union County jury convicted William Wasmund, 48, Thursday of both ...Read more

  CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois teenager who fell ill with a lung disease after vaping for over a year has sued a leading e-cigarette maker. Attorneys filed the lawsuit Friday in Lake County Circuit Court on behalf of 18-year-old Adam Hergenreder. The 85-page suit says Juul Labs deliberately ...Read more

MENDOTA- The Mendota Fire Department and EMS were called to the water plant by Lake Mendota at noon on Friday for a reported chemical spill. Personnel stated they had a barrel that contained liquid permanganate, an oxidizer, that is used in the water treatment process leaking. Carus Chemical ...Read more