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
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Natural Resources will host the annual Christmas Remembrance Ceremony for Illinois soldiers listed as prisoners of war or missing in action during the Vietnam War on Saturday at the Illinois Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Oak Ridge Cemetery in ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The time to renew your expired Illinois Driver’s License or ID Card will be drawing to close. The multiple extensions that were offered to the public during the pandemic beginning in 2020 will be ending on Thursday. Online renewals are possible for most residents ...Read more
LASALLE – The city of LaSalle is looking to put regulations on motorized bicycles in town. LaSalle Alderman and former police officer, Bob Thompson, wants to have stricter laws on makeshift motorized bicycles due to safety concerns. Thompson is suggesting all ...Read more
STREATOR – Poco a Poco, the student-based music festival in Streator is having its second annual Christmas Singing Telegram fundraiser. Messages are professionally recorded and sung by Executive Director, professional mezzo-soprano, and Streator-native Kate Tombaugh. The ...Read more
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
Officials in Atlanta said on Sunday that the victims of the shooting on Saturday night near the popular Atlanta shopping destination ‘Atlantic Station’, which left one dead and five injured, were all minors — including the deceased, a 12-year-old. Gunfire erupting on an ...Read more
Nebraska has reported its 13th case of bird flu this year at a farm in Dixon County, where 1.8 million chickens will be sent to slaughter. The Nebraska Department of Agriculture (“NDA”) reported the latest case at an egg-laying farm in northeast Nebraska. The NDA will create a 6.2 ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – Secretary of State and State Librarian Jesse White awarded over $5.6 million in Adult Literacy Grants to help students develop and enhance their reading, math, writing and English-language skills. The Adult Literacy Program awards grants in three categories: Adult Volunteer ...Read more
Officials say that an apartment fire in the New York City borough of The Bronx on Thanksgiving day left two people dead and two critically injured. The blaze broke out on the second floor of a five-story building in the Mount Hope neighborhood of the Bronx around 5:30 a.m., killing a 60-year-old ...Read more
