Category Archives: WCMY News
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
I-80 westbound very slow from Ottawa to I-39
Traffic is moving ten to 15 miles per hour this afternoon most of the way from Ottawa to Interstate 39 on Interstate 80. That may be from a traffic crash that happened about noon. Drivers should use o...
May 23, 2022 Garrett / CC
Marseilles hiring consulting firm to draw in business
The city of Marseilles is getting a consulting firm. Mayor Jim Hollenbeck says the Torricelli Lobbying and Consulting Firm will help bring in businesses. The agreement will also benefit the city becau...
May 23, 2022
Industrial fires handled in Seneca, Ottawa
Several fire departments went to Seneca last night for a biodiesel fuel plant fire. It was at Renewable Energy Group. It has operated the former Nova Biosource facility since 2010. The company says it...
May 23, 2022
Kinzinger and Underwood among lawmakers not allowed in Russia
Cong. Adam Kinzinger says it seems to be a random list, but he's proud to be on it. He's among more than 960 people the Russian government doesn't want in Russia. So are Cong. Lauren Underwood and som...
May 23, 2022 Cong. Lauren Underwood