EARLVILLE – It was on this date in 1832 that fifteen settlers in northern LaSalle County were killed by up to eighty Potawatomis and a handful of Sauk tribe members after a dispute over a dam constructed on a creek escalated into violence. Earlier in the spring of 1832, William Davis ...Read more
TROY GROVE – A three vehicle crash Wednesday morning injured a man from Tennessee on I-39 near Troy Grove. Authorities say two vehicles were on the right southbound shoulder around 8:00 AM when they allegedly re-entered traffic ahead of a car driven by a 56-year-old Saint Charles man. That ...Read more
STEWARD – Four people were injured, including one seriously after a two vehicle crash in rural Lee County Tuesday afternoon. The Illinois State Police say they were called to the scene of a rollover crash along Woodlawn Road in northeastern Lee County around 5:30 PM. They say a vehicle ...Read more
PRINCETON – Mobile food vendors will continue to be allowed in the city of Princeton, but now under proposed new guidelines. The long winded debate on food trucks continued at Princeton’s City Council meeting on Monday. The ordinance will place mobile food vendors at specific public ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD —Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Director John Kim announced grant awards to assist area communities that lack or need improvement to sewage and wastewater collection infrastructure. Cherry, Compton, Leland, Rutland, Standard and Streator each were awarded $30,000, while ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – After a new set of rules were released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Governor J.B. Pritzker lifted portions of the state’s mask mandate for those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Many of the rules were put into place to control the spread ...Read more
CEDAR POINT – A fire truck that previously belonged to a small community in western New York State will soon be in service in a village in LaSalle County. The Cedar Point Fire Department announced this week that Chief Haeffner, Assistant Chief Ballerini and Captain Margis traveled to ...Read more
UTICA – A perfect place to pop the question may be Starved Rock State Park, but officials ask that you follow the park rules regarding littering no matter what the occasion. Over the weekend park authorities posted on social media what they suspect was silk flower petals strewn about the ...Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The Federal REAL ID deadline has been extended to May of 2023 due to the ongoing pandemic, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Current Illinois driver’s licenses or ID cards will continue to be accepted at airports and secure federal facilities until ...Read more
OGLESBY – Illinois Valley Community College biology instructor LeeAnn Johnson’s Principles of Biology lab students received hands-on experience examining real and replica skulls of primitive and modern man as well as primates. As the culmination of a unit on evolution, students ...Read more
