PRINCETON – The Bureau County Emergency Managment Agency on Thursday announced that Deere & Company in Moline donated 4,000 face shields. The masks were made by the John Deere Seeding Group workers in Moline who would normally be ending production operations for the season. Workers from ...Read more
WHEATON – The DuPage County Fair Association announced Thursday that the July event would be cancelled due to the ongoing pandemic crisis. The fair was scheduled to take place July 22-26th. The Wheaton fairgrounds are currently being used to support the department of Homeland Security to ...Read more
MENDOTA – Mayor Boelk announced Thursday that the Mendota Pool will not be opening this year. Mendota is not the only town keeping the doors to their pool closed this year. This announcement comes just two weeks after the city of Ottawa stated that their Riordan Pool would not ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – Many Illinois State Parks will open beginning the first of May, including the I&M Canal and Shabbona Lake State Park. Starved Rock State Park, however, will remain closed. This all comes as part of Gov. Pritzker’s stay-at-home modifications, which also requires all ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD- Governor Pritzker assembled top researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago Department of Public Health, Illinois Department of Public Health, along with outside consulting groups in the last few ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD- Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker announced Thursday an extension to the statewide “Stay at Home” executive order that has been in place since March 21st. Residents will be asked to limit non-essential travel until May 30th and continue social distancing. The new executive order ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health Thursday announced 1,826 new cases of coronavirus disease in Illinois, including 123 additional deaths. Currently, the IDPH is reporting a total of 36,934 cases, including 1,688 deaths, in 96 counties in Illinois. The age of cases ...Read more
OTTAWA- The LaSalle County Health Department has confirmed two additional COVID-19 cases bringing the total to 41 cases.since the beginning of the Pandemic. The additional cases are both females in their 50’s. The latest update also indicates that one of the newer cases is in Mendota, which ...Read more
PAW PAW – Paw Paw village President Michael Torman traveled to California to participate in a taping in February of the game show Jeopardy. The program aired Wednesday, where the Lee County man came up short during final Jeopardy of winning the game. Torman said he didn’t know he had ...Read more
DIXON – The Lee County Health Department Wednesday announced that KSB Hospital celebrated the release of a COVID-19 patient after a 16-day hospital stay. This is the third person to be successfully treated and released by KSB Hospital. One more additional case was identified, bringing ...Read more
