Category Archives: WCMY News
LaSalle County committee recommends increasing room rates at county nursing home
The LaSalle County Nursing Home and VAC committee is recommending increasing room rates at the LaSalle County Nursing Home. Private rooms would increase from $197 to $207. Semi-private rooms would go ...
Aug 8, 2022
Honor and Remember flag given to daughter of Marine killed in Iraq
Kyra Coyle-Desilets of E. Peoria was just three years old in 2007 when her father, Marine Lance Corporal Benjamin Desilets, was killed in Iraq. On Saturday in Marseilles, she got an Honor and Remember...
Aug 8, 2022 The Marine Lance Corporal Benjamin Desilets Honor and Remember Flag is shown to the audience at the Middle East Conflicts Museum in Marseilles Saturday, August 6, 2022
Bond set at $5 million for teen arrested in random Morris murder
Bond was set at $5 million for a 16-year old boy accused of murdering a Shorewood woman in Morris Thursday. Cortez Rice could face up to 40 years in prison if he's convicted. Grundy County State's Att...
Aug 8, 2022
No updates on Ransom area search for armed man
Whoever was being looked for in a farm field southeast of Ransom, the LaSalle County Sheriff's Department hasn't said yet. Nor has any information come out about what happened when police reported pos...
Aug 8, 2022
Traffic changes coming with continued bridge construction and OHS school year
There will be some traffic changes in Ottawa for students and teachers returning to Ottawa High School for the new school year starting Tuesday. The Illinois Department of Transportation says beginnin...
Aug 8, 2022
100th anniversary of Oglesby-born Major League Baseball player coming
Oglesby Mayor Dominic Rivara wants August 18th to be Jim Bottomley Day. Bottomley, nicknamed Sunny Jim, debuted in Major League Baseball on August 18, 1922. He played in the Majors until 1937, most of...
Aug 7, 2022 Jim Bottomley statue at the baseball field named for him in Oglesby
Man with shotgun loose near Ransom
UPDATE: The LaSalle County Sheriff's Department says the person has been "has been potentially located and identified". Deputies will continue to patrol the area. Anyone with information about the cas...
Aug 6, 2022
TBM Avengers Chairman says 2022 event was the most organized it's ever been
TBM Avengers Chairman Cary Miller says this year's event was an exact copy of last year, including the weather. He says although everything was great on Friday, it was a tough decision to call off the...
Aug 6, 2022
Change of parks for Ottawa's new outdoor fitness court
A new outdoor fitness course won't go in Eastside Park or Lincoln-Douglas Park after all. Ottawa City Commissioner Marla Pearson says the National Fitness Campaign looked things over and decided Kiwan...
Aug 6, 2022 The Walsh Park fitness course soon won't be the only one in Ottawa.
Ottawa preparing for last of Thornton Park work
The people using Thornton Park don't seem to mind that the park's renovation isn't done yet. City Commissioner Marla Pearson says three contracts the City Council approved this past week are for the r...
Aug 6, 2022 WCMY photo taken earlier this year of the Thornton Park tennis and basketball courts which are being remade into new courts for basketball, tennis, and pickleball.