STREATOR – The Streator Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the location regulations of potential recreational cannabis sales in the city. In December, council members voted to allow cannabis businesses within the city, but it is up to the commission to make any recommendations ...Read more
OTTAWA – Norris Drive on US 6 west in Ottawa will be redone by this year. Dave Broviak, Studies Engineer for the Illinois Department of Transportation says the project will take place from the west side of town about a mile west of Boyce Memorial Drive all the way to the Fox River bridge ...Read more
PERU – Heavy rainfall will develop into this weekend, before a winter storm watch that’s expected to create dangerous conditions. The National Weather Service already put places in north-central Illinois under a flood watch and the Federal Emergency Management Agency is encouraging ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway international airports have installed boxes where travelers can dispose of recreational marijuana before they board their flights. The cannabis amnesty boxes, as they’re called, were installed at each airport last week, just as legal ...Read more
OTTAWA – An Ottawa woman is in custody after an investigation into heroin sales. According to the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team, on Tuesday , 31-year-old Heather M. Vela of Ottawa was charged with unlawful delivery of purported heroin after Vela allegedly delivered heroin to ...Read more
MORRISON, IL (AP) – A Whiteside County teenager has pleaded guilty to shooting to death her mother because of the mother’s opposition to the daughter’s lesbian relation. With her guilty plea in Whiteside County Circuit Court on Wednesday to second-degree murder, 17-year-old Anna ...Read more
OTTAWA – State Representative Lance Yednock is hosting a Utility Bill Clinic in Ottawa to assist residents in saving money. The Citizens’ Utility Board and a Homeowner Education Class with Habitat for Humanity in Ottawa will be on the seminar board this Thursday at Trinity Lutheran Church ...Read more
OTTAWA – By spring time, Ottawa residents will see around a five dollar increase in their water and sewer bills. At Tuesday night’s council meeting, Commissioner Thomas Ganiere announced that due to a million dollar deficit, the city will be increasing their rates come April 1st. On ...Read more
MARSEILLES – The city of Marseilles has been awarded a boat access grant. According to Austin Taylor of North Central Illinois Council of Governments, Marseilles will be receiving $200,000 for a long-awaited boat launch. Earlier this week Governor J.B. Pritzker announced Marseilles was one ...Read more
OTTAWA – Residents spoke out against a used car tax that they say were billed for the day after Christmas. During public comment at Tuesday’s city council meeting, multiple residents say there was no prior announcement to the tax they got in the mail after the holiday. According ...Read more
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