OTTAWA – The Ottawa Fire Department has received an automatic CPR machine paid for with funds from the firefighters union. Local 523 voted to approve the purchase of a Lucas Device, which performs automatic compressions at a specified rate during CPR. The hands free device allows ...Read more
PONTIAC – Livingston County Health Department confirmed that 13 more residents have tested positive for COVID-19. The newly confirmed cases are a female and four males under the age of 20, three females and one male in their 20’s, one female in their 40’s, one male in their 50’s, and ...Read more
PRINCETON – Four more cases of COVID-19 were reported in Bureau County. These individuals are a male teenager, a female in their 30’s, a female in their 40’s, and a male in their 40’s. The Bureau, Putnam, and Marshall County Health Department has reported 337 cases in total since the ...Read more
DEKALB – 27 additional cases of COVID-19 were reported in DeKalb County by the health department on Monday. These cases represent those reported electronically Friday through Monday. DeKalb County Health Department has reported 1,022 cases in total, along with 32 deaths. The DHCD also notes ...Read more
OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Health Department said Monday that they have recorded four more COVID-19 related deaths. The individuals are a woman in her 70’s, two women in their 90’s, and a man in his 90’s. There have been a total of thirty-four COVID-19 related deaths in LaSalle ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 12 more COVID-19 related deaths in the state on Monday, along with 1,773 new confirmed cases. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 207,854 individuals have tested positive, including 7,756 deaths in total. The IDPH reports ...Read more
MENDOTA – Seneca Foods has purchased some of the property of the former Del Monte production facility in Mendota. LaSalle County property tax information shows the New York based company as the current owner of portions of the vegetable canning plant that has been in the city since ...Read more
OGLESBY – The Illinois Valley Community College’s board approved a tentative 2021 budget last week. The plan is not expected to require a tax increase. Revenues are projected at $32.1 million, less than one percent over the previous year. Expenditures of $32.5 million are up less than one ...Read more
UTICA – Starved Rock and Matthiessen State Park will remain closed for the foreseeable future as officials work to clean up after the storm which battered North Central Illinois a week ago. The Deracho brought with it up to 100 MPH winds, causing trees to fall blocking trails and picnic ...Read more
SYCAMORE – A man has died after an ATV crash in DeKalb County. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office say that on Friday around 8 PM 58-year-old Gregory S. Duecker of Sycamore was traveling on Larson Road when for unknown reasons he lost control and rolled several times. Duecker was ...Read more
