SPRINGFIELD – Local area hunters harvested a total nearly 2,000 deer during the second weekend of the Illinois Firearm Deer Season. According to the Department of Natural Resources, all together the counties brought in 192 less than last year. LaSalle County harvested 214 deer in the 2nd ...Read more
STREATOR – Streator’s council is expected to pass their 2020 budget this week. According to City Manager David Plyman, the proposed general fund expense budget is at $9.8 million and revenue at $9.6 million leaving an over $200,000 deficit. Plyman says the budget anticipates staff ...Read more
OTTAWA – LaSalle County Farm Bureau President says farmers are ‘cautiously optimistic’ as tariff negotiations are in the works for US and China. The Phase One deal that officials announced on Friday, included agreements of agricultural purchases from the US, and a ...Read more
GREELEY, CO – A suspect wanted in connection with pair of Illinois homicides and armed bank robbery has been killed in Colorado following a car chase by police. The Weld County Sheriff’s Office says the pursuit around 2 p.m. Sunday ended in the suspect’s death after a crash ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) – Federal authorities have charged a 64-year-old Army veteran with making a threatening communication against U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis. Randall E. Tarr, of Rochester, is accused leaving a voicemail message at Davis’ office on Nov. 25 threatening to shoot him. He was ...Read more
OTTAWA – The employees of an Ottawa restaurant have the chance to earn part of a $50,000 reward in February. The Culver’s Restaurant announced that their location in Ottawa was one of five within the company to participate in the Culver’s Crew Challenge. Owner Bobby Maier said ...Read more
OREGON, IL (AP) – The restoration project for a northern Illinois landmark known as the Black Hawk statue is near completion after funding and weather-related delays. The 108-year-old monument at Lowden State Park has spent most of the past five years beneath plastic covering to protect it ...Read more
CICERO (AP) — Officials say a newborn girl has been dropped at a suburban Chicago fire station by her parents. The girl, a few hours old, was taken Friday to Engine One in Cicero. Town spokesman Ray Hanania said paramedics and police determined she was in good health, but she was taken to a ...Read more
CRYSTAL LAKE (AP) – State officials say that two Department of Children and Family Services employees at the center of an investigation into the well-being of a five-year-old boy who later died are no longer employed. The Chicago Tribune reports that a DCFS spokesman declined to say whether ...Read more
PERU – A new treatment for vascular vein disease is now available at Illinois Valley Community Hospital. The wound center’s IV VeinCare will be using a minimally-invasive laser treatment in an outpatient setting according to Jill Smoode, the program director. Services now offered ...Read more
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