WENONA – Politicians, local business leaders and elected officials announced details of a natural gas line expansion at Hearthside Foods in Wenona, Monday morning. Ameren Illinois completed a natural gas line upgrade from IL-71 and IL-251, south along IL-251 to just west of Tonica. The ...Read more
STREATOR – Beginning Tuesday, County Highway 40 on North 13th Road between East 25th Road and East 26th Road in Streator will be closed. The road will shut down between the hours of 8 a.m. and 12 p.m. for crane crossing for the Otter Creek Wind Farm. Locals are urged to seek alternative ...Read more
STREATOR – A home suffered what authorities called extensive damage Sunday night in Streator. After 9 PM the Streator Fire Department was called to the 1100 block of Arthur Street for a reporter structure fire. It took only 2 hours for crews to fully extinguish the blaze, which had ...Read more
By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ top leaders trumpeted the benefits of automatic voter registration when signing a bipartisan plan in 2017 to change how the state finds and signs up eligible but unregistered voters: more civic participation, fewer barriers to the ...Read more
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (AP) — A 44-year-old McHenry County man has been arrested on charges that he stole thousands of dollars from a youth baseball team in a league he once ran. Joey S. Maurer of Crystal Lake has been charged with a felony count of theft between $10,000 and $100,000. The ...Read more
ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A Rockford, Illinois manufacturer’s polymer 3D printer has been declared the globe’s largest by the Guinness Fook of World Records. The Rockford Register-Star reports Ingersoll Machine Tools’ printer dubbed MasterPrint was sold to the University of ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A proposed bill would require all CBD products sold in Illinois to meet testing requirements that would be developed by the state Department of Agriculture. CBD is a cannabis extract that does not cause a high but is marketed as a healing remedy to alleviate conditions such as ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — A 67-year-old woman with a history of sneaking onto flights without a ticket will remain jailed after the latest incident in which police say she tried to get past security at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. Marilyn Hartman was arrested Friday night and later ...Read more
PLANO – Eleven people were injured after a crash Saturday between a vehicle and a hay rack ride. The Kendall County Sheriff’s Office say that around 5:30 PM they were called to River Road near Blackhawk road where they found that 14 passengers on a hay rack ride had been involved in a ...Read more
OTTAWA – OSF HealthCare donates $900 to Marquette Academy athletic programs. This donation is a result of the sports physical fundraiser that took place on August 6. “We would like to thank OSF for this wonderful opportunity to not only accommodate our athletes to access their sports ...Read more
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