MENDOTA – Northbrook, Lincoln, and Blackstone have all received Commendable school ratings from the Illinois Report Card. Director of Teaching and Learning Dr. Beth Wackerlin presented the report card to the Board of Education at Monday’s meeting, and reported that students in seventh and ...Read more
MENDOTA – Eighth-grade boys basketball coach Courtney Nave will not be finishing out the season with the team. Mendota Elementary School Board President Sean Pappas announced at Monday night’s meeting that Nave seeks to resign in December, midway through the season. Superintendent Kristen ...Read more
JACKSONVILLE – A teen from Streator has died after a shooting in downstate Morgan County. The Jacksonville Police say last Tuesday 19-year-old Maurice Cunningham was found beaten and shot in the 600 block of Jordan Street. He was taken to a Springfield hospital where he succumb to his ...Read more
PLAINFIELD – A Sandwich man has died as a result of a multiple vehicle accident in Plainfield on Sunday. According to the Kendall County Coroners Office, 74-year-old Edmund Leif Erickson of Sandwich was pronounced diseases in his truck tractor as a result of a multiple vehicle accident on ...Read more
OTTAWA – LaSalle County’s Zoning Board of Appeals isn’t recommending that marijuana businesses be allowed to operate in unincorporated parts of the county. On Monday evening, zoning members voted nay to allowing cannabis businesses of any kind in either agriculture or business districts ...Read more
MENDOTA – OSF HealthCare Saint Paul and Saint Elizabeth Medical Center will be accepting non-working Christmas lights this year to reduce landfill waste. Eagle Recycling in Galva partnered to accept the lights which can be stripped down to raw materials and can be reused to make new ...Read more
STREATOR – The Streator Ministerial Association will be hosting their annual Thanksgiving Luncheon this Thursday. Deliveries will be offered starting at 11 a.m., carry-outs at 11:30 and 1:30 p.m. and a dine-in at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at 12:30 p.m. Coordinator Marianne Morris ...Read more
CHICAGO – Americans hitting the road for the Thanksgiving holiday will find gas prices similar, if not cheaper, than last year’s. According American Automobile Association Spokesperson Jeanette Casselano, during Thanksgiving week last year the national gas price average decreased a ...Read more
LASALLE – One person was airlifted and another rushed by ambulance to local area hospitals after the vehicle they were in fell off the I-39 overpass in LaSalle on Monday. According to initial reports, just before noon, the Utica and LaSalle emergency crews were called to westbound I-80 for ...Read more
STREATOR – The victims of the fire on Sunday that took the lives of two people have been identified. The LaSalle County Coroner’s Office says that 67-year-old Lois J. Green and 27-year-old Christian Green were found after the fire started in the 1000 block of East Wilson Street. ...Read more
