Category Archives: WCMY News
Number of jobs drops, but so does unemployment
Local unemployment held nearly steady from October to November. The Illinois Department of Employment Security says the rate for LaSalle, Bureau, and Putnam counties combined went from 4.3% to 4.4%. T...
Dec 24, 2021
IVCC students get food boxes to get through winter break
About 50 Illinois Valley Community College students got some help in the form of food to take home for the holidays. Some IVCC employees prepared about 50 food boxes. Each had fives meals in it. They ...
Dec 24, 2021
Ottawa water main projects to cost more next year
Ottawa water main replacements will cost $1.4 million next year. City Engineer Tom Duttlinger says three areas are getting the work. Duttlinger says the Joliet St. work is to repair a pipe that has ha...
Dec 24, 2021
Top stories of 2021: Cong. Kinzinger will leave the U.S. House
After a decade in the U.S. House, Congressman Adam Kinzinger announced in 2021 that it's time for him to go. That's one of our top stories of the year. He hasn't said exactly what he'll do after his t...
Dec 23, 2021 Cong. Adam Kinzinger
Coronavirus clobbers county with 15 deaths since last Friday
Fifteen LaSalle County residents' deaths have been attributed to the coronavirus during the last week. The LaSalle County Health Department says that brings the total to 376. Out of 18,312 cases so fa...
Dec 23, 2021
Drug narcotics team arrests four people around LaSalle County
Four people were arrested by the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Narcotics Team Tuesday. Each person was charged with unlawful delivery of a controlled substance. At a traffic stop on E. 3rd Rd in souther...
Dec 23, 2021
Chess tables added to Washington Park in Ottawa
Some new chess tables that have been installed at Washington Park in Ottawa. The idea was originated by eighth grader Eleanor Hasty. Hasty says the money for the chess tables was donated. There was a ...
Dec 23, 2021
Chicago man charged after 40-mile chase from Peru to Annawan
At least four people were in a car that State Police tried to stop in LaSalle County early yesterday morning. So far, one is charged in connection with a 40-mile police chase that started in Peru and ...
Dec 23, 2021 Rowdy Roddy
Top stories of 2021: redistricting
Redistricting is one of our top stories of 2021, because it will affect how people are represented in government for ten years. Gov. Pritzker signed into law a Congressional district map that will spl...
Dec 23, 2021 Some of the LaSalle County Board members as they look over the district map proposals.
St. Margaret's Health asks residents in the Illinois Valley to help slow the spread of COVID-19
St. Margaret's Health says that they have seen a major spike in the rate of positive cases requiring hospitalization as of late, especially those who are younger and mostly unvaccinated. In LaSalle Co...
Dec 22, 2021