Category Archives: WCMY News
GOP chairmen to meet Jan. 7 to choose Barickman Senate replacement
LaSalle County Republican Party Chairman Larry Smith will join 12 other GOP chairs late next week to decide who represents the 53rd Illinois Senate district. Jason Barickman had the job and ran for it...
Dec 27, 2022 LongitudeLatitude / CC
Somerset Apartments fire started with candle
A fire in the Somerset Apartments in Ottawa is blamed on a candle left burning in a bedroom. Fire Chief Brian Bressner says the fire went from the bedroom into the attic and through the roof. No one w...
Dec 27, 2022
Ice skaters invited to I & M Canal in Ottawa
The city of Ottawa is leaving some water in the Illinois and Michigan Canal for the winter. Ottawa Canal Association President Arnie Bandstra says letting it freeze along five blocks provides lots of ...
Dec 26, 2022 weston m / Unsplash
Top stories of 2022: awkward Marseilles intersection gets a makeover
It's easier to turn at the intersection of Main, Commercial, and Broadway streets in Marseilles. Especially if you drive a big truck. The city's realignment project at the south end of Main finished i...
Dec 26, 2022 The newly redone intersection of Main, Commercial, and Broadway Streets.
Ottawa asking for grant for south side sewer work
Ottawa City Hall is applying for a grant to separate storm and sanitary sewers on the south side. Kevin Lindeman with the North Central Illinois Council of Governments says the neighborhood qualifies ...
Dec 26, 2022
University of Illinois trying to start cannabis research center
The University of Illinois plans to get into cannabis research. Its Discovery Partners Institute aims to start a research center in Chicago. It still needs to line up all the funding. Gov. Pritzker be...
Dec 25, 2022
Top stories of 2022: new political districts take effect
For the next ten years, LaSalle County will be represented by five Illinois House members, three Illinois State Senators, and two members of Congress. One of our top stories of 2022 is the redistricti...
Dec 25, 2022
Farmers asked to participate in Census of Agriculture
Illinois had the highest response to the Census of Agriculture five years ago. Mark Schleusener, a statistician with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, hopes the state's farmers do it again. He says ...
Dec 25, 2022 StateofIsrael / CC
Mother and child perish in fire day before Christmas
A mother and child lost their lives in a fire the day before Christmas in Ottawa. Fire Chief Brian Bressner says a teenage boy got out of the apartment in the 1500 block of Sycamore St. He was treated...
Dec 24, 2022
Slick weather and road conditions blamed for several crashes
LaSalle County deputies handled several traffic crashes blamed on weather and road conditions Thursday and Friday: An Ottawa man's car hit some trees of off a slick Caton Rd. Thursday afternoon. A Str...
Dec 24, 2022