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Streator Mayor to run in 2023

STREATOR – Streator Mayor Tara Bedei will be running for a full term this spring. Bedei announced she filed to retain her seat which she has held since January of this year. She was appointed after former mayor Jimmie Lansford resigned in 2021 due to health reasons. Bedei previously was a ...Read more

First Amber Alert in LaSalle marks 20 years

  SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois AMBER Alert Task Force commemorates the 20th Anniversary of the first America’s Missing Broadcast Emergency Response (AMBER) Alert broadcast that took place in LaSalle. The AMBER alert broadcast out of LaSalle happened at 5:35 pm, on novemebr 26th 2002. The ...Read more