Category Archives: WCMY News
Lawyers For Madigan Seek To Get Part Of Indictment Dismissed
(Chicago, IL) -- Lawyers for embattled former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan are looking to get part of his indictment tossed out. The Chicago Tribune reports court filings argue that racketee...
Mar 01, 2023
Peru discussing reactivating credit card fee for bill payments
Peru residents who pay bills with a credit card could be charged a fee again. The city stopped charging a 1.5% fee on credit card payments in 2020 because city hall was closed at the beginning of the ...
Mar 01, 2023
Local papers among those dumping Dilbert, replacing it with strip about soul food restaurant owners
For a few weeks, a Massachusetts newspaper is leaving a blank space where Dilbert would have gone. That's the Sun Chronicle's way of telling people to think about race relations after cartoonist Scott...
Feb 28, 2023 Herb and Jamaal, about two Black men who run a soul food restaurant, has replaced Dilbert in all Shaw newspapers after cartoonist Scott Adams's comments that Black people are a hate group. Herb and Jamaal is drawn by Stephen Bentley.
Lecture done at Ottawa Historical and Scouting Heritage Museum to be done again
The lecture series at the Ottawa Historical and Scouting Heritage Museum have been filling up. So the museum says last Sunday's lecture on Old downtown Ottawa buildings will be done again. It's this S...
Feb 28, 2023 File photo of the Ottawa Historical and Scouting Heritage Museum
Ottawa Fire Chief announces cause of December fatal fire
The Illinois State Fire Marshal's Office says a cooking container that was left on a burner of a stove top caused a fire that killed two people in Ottawa last year. Fire Chief Brian Bressner says fire...
Feb 28, 2023
Fire Chief wants to purchase new leaf vacuum for upcoming fall
Peru Fire Chief Jeff King wants the city to purchase a new leaf vac. He says one of the vacs the city uses for leaf pickup has stopped working while a second one is on its last leg. He says the $304,0...
Feb 28, 2023
Peru plans to make changes at intersection in front of Westclox Building
Some Peru residents have some questions about parking at US Rt. 6 and Buffalo Rd. in front of the Westclox Building. City Engineer Eric Carls says some people are parking in the area between the first...
Feb 28, 2023
Ottawa High to get money in vaping marketing lawsuit settlement
Ottawa High School's share of a huge settlement in a lawsuit over vaping product marketing is $32,000. Supt. Mike Cushing says after the attorneys and court system take their cuts, OHS will have aroun...
Feb 28, 2023
Ottawa High School district to buy house
The Ottawa High School District is buying a house. The school board last night approved the $148,000 purchase price for the home east of the school and north of the student parking lot. The school dis...
Feb 28, 2023
Ottawa works out property use agreements ahead of Green St. project
Ahead of the Green St. project, Ottawa City Hall has worked out agreements with the owners of two pieces of land in the area. One is for an easement to let the city use some of the land. The other is ...
Feb 27, 2023 WCMY file photo of Green St. in Ottawa during a flood. The city plans to raise the street above the floodplain and have a passage to let water flow under it.