Category Archives: WCMY News
Marseilles wants to work with Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce
The city of Marseilles wants to work more with the Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce. Executive Director Jeff Hettrick spoke to the city council last night about what they can do together after being as...
Mar 02, 2023 Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jeff Hettrick (left) speaks to the Marseilles City Council and residents in attendance at Wednesday's meeting.
State grants to help pay for park improvements in Ottawa, Marseilles, and Morris
Some area communities are getting part of a $60 million grant award in the Illinois Open Space Land Acquisition and Development program. Ottawa's getting $506,000. Marseilles and Morris are each getti...
Mar 01, 2023 There was a playground here in Allen Park. Ottawa's getting a grant to develop a new one and make other improvements to the park.
Bridge inspectors to work in Ottawa next week
Bridge inspectors will work next week on Veterans Memorial Bridge or Illinois 23 across the Illinois River. The Illinois Department of Transportation says they'll work from 8:30am to 3:30pm Monday thr...
Mar 01, 2023
Ottawa Fire Dept. program gives residents smoke detectors
Ottawa's fire department is offering smoke detectors for free. If you contact the department, someone will install a fully legal detector in your home. Fire Chief Brian Bressner says it's sealed so yo...
Mar 01, 2023 Horizontal photo of home smoke detector with white ceiling background
Cong. LaHood says give states incentive to go after unemployment insurance fraud
Cong. Darin LaHood says it's past time to go after unemployment insurance fraud that ran rampant during the pandemic. He told the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday, Democrats just let it go whi...
Mar 01, 2023 Cong. Darin LaHood speaking to the Ways and Means Committee Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Trial For Defendants In ComEd Bribery Case Delayed
(Chicago, IL) -- The trial for the four charged in the ongoing ComEd bribery case is being delayed. Jury selection was set to begin next Monday in Chicago, however, a federal judge announced jury sele...
Mar 01, 2023
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