Category Archives: WCMY News
Streator man indicted for failing reporting fatal accident
A Streator man has been indicted on a charge of failing to report an accident involving death. A grand jury has formally charged 26-year old Gabriel Benitez. He's accused of hitting 45-year old Carl J...
May 25, 2022
Peru changes noise ordinance to allow petitioning for extra hour of music
The city of Peru has changed their noise ordinance. Businesses who want to have a band play past 10pm can petition the city council four times a year during the summer for an extra hour. Alderman Bob ...
May 25, 2022 grotos / CC
Ottawa police recover AR-15 style "ghost gun" after brief pursuit
Ottawa Police Detective Sgt. Kyle Booras says the department recovered a loaded AR-15 style "ghost gun" when they tried to stop a vehicle last Wednesday. The suspect lead police on a brief pursuit whe...
May 24, 2022
Million dollar bonds set for man and woman in drug case
Bond has been set at $1 million each for two Ottawa people arrested on cocaine dealing charges Tuesday morning. Twenty-seven year old Damien M. Johnson and 30-year old Amber L. Katrein are accused of ...
May 24, 2022
Ottawa gets more time for Thornton Park project
Ottawa has three more months beyond the original grant deadline to finish work on Thornton Park. The state grant for $305,100 came two years ago with a deadline of August 2022. City Hall negotiated fo...
May 24, 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.
Bids wanted for 24 LaSalle County pandemic relief projects
Twenty-four projects to improve county government buildings and services have the LaSalle County Board's preliminary approval. The board voted this week to advertise for bids. It plans to use $5 milli...
May 24, 2022 East side of the Etna Rd. LaSalle County courthouse
Car catches fire inside Ottawa garage
A car caught fire inside a west side Ottawa garage yesterday afternoon. The owner told fire fighters he'd been working on the car. When he started the engine, the fuel injector came off and fuel sprea...
May 24, 2022 Ottawa Fire Fighters IAFF 523 union picture of the fire in the 900 block of Illinois Ave. on May 23, 2022
No dig sewer repair work underway in Ottawa
Sewer repairs are being done all across Ottawa. The company doing them doesn't have to dig them up. It puts a plastic liner inside the pipes to seal them. Performance Pipelining was doing that yesterd...
May 24, 2022 File photo: Steam is discharged into the air above a sewer repair job that uses heat to bond a plastic liner to the inside of a pipe. E. Prairie St. Ottawa. May 23, 2022.
Peru raises hotel motel tax rate in 4-3 council vote
The hotel motel tax in Peru is going up. The city council voted 4-3 to raise the rate from 5.64% to 7.5%, or about three or four dollars more a night. Alderman Tom Payton says he voted it against rais...
May 24, 2022
LaSalle County Board raises pay after all, effective after the election
As far as Chairman Don Jensen knows, the latest LaSalle County Board vote on increasing member pay is final. After earlier votes on raising the rate from $60 per meeting failed, the board voted this m...
May 23, 2022