MENDOTA- The Mendota Fire Department and EMS were called to the water plant by Lake Mendota at noon on Friday for a reported chemical spill. Personnel stated they had a barrel that contained liquid permanganate, an oxidizer, that is used in the water treatment process leaking. Carus Chemical ...Read more
OTTAWA – A man accused of a number of smash and grab burglaries around downtown Mendota has had his bond set at $100,000. The Mendota Police Department say 54-year-old Craig J. Hynes allegedly broke windows of multiple businesses over the last few weeks and took various items. He is ...Read more
YORKVILLE – A Kendall County man was arrested Thursday and charged with 10 felonies involving child pornography. In July of 2019, the Kendall County Sheriff’s Office began an investigation into an online user who allegedly was in possession of child pornography. After they identified ...Read more
SPRING VALLEY – Schweickert, Ganassin, Krzak and Rundio, a personal injury law firm, is representing a number of children who were allegedly injured in a school bus crash last week in Spring Valley. Attorneys say contrary to earlier reports, a number of students were injured and ...Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has sought to retract key admissions he made during his federal criminal case years ago that he sexually abused a then-high school student, a filing in an ongoing civil case alleges. The document filed by lawyers for the accuser cites a ...Read more
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Singer R. Kelly was a no-show for an initial court appearance in a Minnesota case in which he is accused of offering a 17-year-old girl $200 to take off her clothes and dance in 2001. Kelly, who is jailed in Chicago on sexual abuse and other counts, was charged in Minnesota ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois’ budget office has issued a memo warning agency heads they should be prepared to make significant cuts to next year’s budgets. WNIU-Radio reports the memo, signed by Deputy Gov. Dan Hynes and Budget Director Alexis Sturm, notes the current-year ...Read more
OTTAWA – The man Mendota Police say committed multiple smash and grab burglaries will have a bond hearing on Friday morning in Ottawa. The LaSalle County Jail says that 54-year-old Craig J. Hynes remains in their custody for now. Hynes has been charged with two counts of burglary ...Read more
OGLESBY – Mendota High School and Illinois Valley Community College are providing college-aid-specific services to MHS students and families. MHS Director of Guidance and former Illinois State University financial aid advisor, Mitch Landgraf says almost 30 percent of students who ...Read more
POSEN, Ill. (AP) — A former mayor of a Chicago suburb was found dead after failing to show up for sentencing in an embezzlement case. Former Posen mayor Donald W. Schupek was found dead in his home Thursday. The Cook County medical examiner’s office says the cause of death for the ...Read more
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