UTICA – A LaSalle woman was identified as the victim in the Tuesday fatal accident on I-80. According to the Solon-Telford Funeral Home, 32-year-old Chelsea B. Davis of LaSalle, formerly of Streator, passed away as a result of a multi-vehicle crash near Utica. According to the Illinois ...Read more
PRINCETON – Bureau County Board voted to approve a retailers’ occupation tax for cannabis at Tuesday night’s meeting. The board has been discussing the 3% tax for the county for months, as April 1st is the deadline for adopting municipality tax ordinances. Bureau County Board will ...Read more
MORRISONVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A central Illinois man has died after becoming buried in corn while working inside a farm’s grain bin. Sixty-one-year-old David L. Lowis was pronounced dead at the scene Monday morning at a farm in rural Morrisonville. Christian County Coroner Amy Calvert Winans ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Education Association has released a state of education report that shows Illinoisans do not have a high regard for public schools. The association says in its poll, 1,000 Illinois residents gave a grade of“C-“ to public schools, although they gave ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Actor Jussie Smollett has been indicted for a second time on charges of lying to police about a racist and anti-gay attack he allegedly staged on himself last year in downtown Chicago. The indictment came from a special prosecutor who was appointed after Cook County prosecutors ...Read more
PLAINFIELD – A German Shepherd named Maverick is recovering after falling through the ice on a frozen pond in Will County Tuesday. The Plainfield Fire Department say they were called around 7 AM to rescue the 10-month-old dog near Drauden Road and Catherine Drive in the Fond Du ...Read more
STREATOR – Streator’s Plan Commission is recommending that council allow a family operated medical marijuana company to grow on the city’s west side. Tuesday night before plan commission, Llerem LLC Co-CEO Paul Magelli discussed the ins and outs of the potential grow house that would ...Read more
MACOMB, Ill. (AP) — The art of growing cannabis will become a minor subject at Western Illinois University in the fall. The university’s school of agriculture in Macomb is acting on interest officials expressed in such a class before adult-use marijuana became legal in January. The minor in ...Read more
MENDOTA- In a filing in Chicago January 31st, the Mendota Lutheran Home filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. The son of a resident was told on Monday in a call from the staff that they would be closing and that they would be trying to find a new care facility for their loved one. A social ...Read more
UNDATED – The Ottawa and Peru PADS are asking the public for air mattresses to help former clients get settled into their new homes. The shelters announced that within a three week time period, Ottawa Pads Four families of 17 individuals, of which 11 are children, have been settling ...Read more
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