Category Archives: WCMY News

Streator City Hall plans to sell some surplus property. Mayor Tara Bedei says they are plots of land, some with homes on them. The rest are vacant lots. The city's spending money mowing lawns and some...

Streator's City Council is considering whether to let people have hens in their yards. Roosters crow very loudly, but hens are relatively quiet. And they lay eggs. Mayor Tara Bedei says with high egg ...

A truck hauling a tank turned over in the Interstate 80 median near Illinois 251 in Peru this morning. State Police say a medical helicopter flew the driver to a hospital. Nothing hazardous was in the...

37th District St. Sen Win Stoller wants Gov. Pritzker to provide long-term relief for families dealing with rising energy costs. Before the State of the State Address Wednesday, Stoller says far too m...

Cong. Darin LaHood wishes Pres. Biden had ordered the Chinese spy balloon downed before it got to the Atlantic coast. Lt. Gen. Doug Sims told a Senate subcommittee last week, the risk to people on the...

While growing up, St. Rep. Jason Bunting of Emington, north east of Pontiac, says his family participated in an agricultural group or organization they were passionate about. That passion and wanting ...

A channel repeater for the Ottawa Police and Fire Department has been upgraded. Police Chief Brent Roalson says the repeater was replaced on the city water tower on Stevenson Rd. He says the city firs...

Ottawa High School students figuring out what to do with their lives might get some ideas in the school cafeteria on April 21st. A student-organized career fair will bring in 40 to 50 employers from m...

Two Peru Police Officers were honored last night for saving a woman from a drug overdose three weeks ago. Police Chief Sarah Raymond says Officers Brad Jones and Michelle Leary found the woman unconsc...

The Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce and Open Space Art Gallery owner Amanda Weygand wants to help vacant downtown buildings get rented through art. The downtown public art program allows building owne...