Category Archives: WCMY News
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
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