OGLESBY – Illinois Valley Community College have announced agriculture transfer agreements with Illinois State University and Southern Illinois University. They say that with these agreements, IVCC students can pursue and complete an Associate of Applied Science degree in Agronomy or ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police say the number of carjackings in the city has skyrocketed this year. Police statistics show that this year there have been more than 1,150 carjackings compared to 507 in all of last year. Police say they believe one factor is that suspects can wear the same kind of ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – 10,526 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed by the Illinois Department of Public Health in addition to 148 new coronavirus related deaths. Included in those deaths were 5 individuals from LaSalle County. Since the start of the pandemic, 770,088 cases have been reported by the ...Read more
OTTAWA – The LaSalle County Health Department confirmed 7 new COVID-19 related deaths on Friday, individuals ranging in age from their 50’s to in their 90’s. The deaths from coronavirus related complications in the county now total 149 since the start of the pandemic. In addition to ...Read more
STREATOR – A Streator man was arrested after a report of possible gunfire Thursday. Around 12:30 PM the Streator Police Department were called to the 400 Block of Ralph Plum Street and after an investigation took 40-year-old Nicholas R. Simpson into custody. He was transported to the ...Read more
By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — More than two dozen migrant workers from Texas allege in a new federal lawsuit that they were sprayed with toxic pesticides while working in central Illinois cornfields. They include teenagers, workers in their 60s and a pregnant woman. The ...Read more
LASALLE – The bigger and better Celebration of Lights at Rotary Park in LaSalle have already brought holiday cheer to thousands this year, and with more visitors than ever expected for this weekend, they have announced a change in traffic patterns around the display. On Friday and Saturday ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — The City of Chicago towed over 230 vehicles on the first day of the overnight winter parking ban. On Dec. 1 every year, from 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. until April 1, cars are not allowed to park along 107 miles of main streets throughout the city. The parking ban is enforced regardless of ...Read more
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A court commissioner has ruled that there is sufficient evidence to warrant a trial for an Illinois teenager accused of killing two men during an August protest in Wisconsin. Thursday’s ruling by Kenosha County Circuit Court Commissioner Loren Keating came after a ...Read more
ZEIGLER, Ill. (AP) — A coroner says a southern Illinois house fire killed a man and his two children. Franklin County Coroner Marty Leffler tells WSIL-TV that the fire Monday killed 23-year-old Travis R. Craig, 3-year-old Talen E. Craig and 1-year-old Legan R. Craig. The cause of the deaths ...Read more
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