Category Archives: WCMY News
LaSalle County weekly report: a week without fatal COVID cases, no new cases among oldest people
LaSalle County has gone a week without any COVID-19 deaths. The county health department figures provided Friday show 12,918 cases known of altogether and 12,509 recoveries. There were 12 new cases an...
Jun 25, 2021
16th district Congressman Adam Kinzinger introduces bill that would help educate American's on cyber security
Congressman Adam Kinzinger, along with four other members of the House of Representatives has introduced a bill to create a campaign to increase knowledge on cyber security. The American Cyber Securit...
Jun 25, 2021 Richard Patterson / CC
Lasalle County Democratic Party chair calls the lawsuit filled by local GOP a misuse of taxpayer dollars
The lawsuit filed by the Lasalle County Republican Party is being called "an ongoing political circus" by the Lasalle County Democratic Party. Chair Dani Brzozowski says that it's unfortunate that the...
Jun 25, 2021
Party chairman wants a hearing into how much he should pay for court case over election results
The lawyer for LaSalle County Republican Party Chairman Larry Smith says Smith has some decisions to make. He didn't say during a court hearing this morning exactly what those decisions are. But they ...
Jun 25, 2021
New LaSalle County voter identification cards are in the mail
New voter identification cards have been mailed to 73,851 LaSalle County voters. County Clerk Lori Bongartz says unless you recently registered or updated your registration, you should get a card in t...
Jun 25, 2021
Streator man charged after child porn investigation
Several agencies were involved in an investigation that led to a 41-year old Streator man's arrest this week. Ryan P. Cook is charged with having child pornography and sharing it among multiple electr...
Jun 25, 2021
Scattered power outages from overnight storms
UPDATE: ComEd reports most of the Streator customers who lost power about 4:15am have it on again. There are fewer than five outages west of Streator. Lightning is blamed for the outages. Ameren repor...
Jun 25, 2021 Emmett Tullos / CC
Two Ottawa men arrested for allegedly selling drugs to narcotics enforcement team
Two Ottawa men are being held on a 1,000,000 dollar bond for allegedly dealing drugs. On Tuesday 24-year old Daninius Sepkus was arrested on Lasalle Street and 22-year old Eric Motozapo was arrested o...
Jun 25, 2021
City of Marseilles will meet to discuss Community Development Block Grant
There will be a meeting in Marseilles to discuss the Community Development Block Grant the city is going to apply for once again. It's on July 1st at 6pm at the Marseilles Firehouse. Mayor Jim Hollenb...
Jun 25, 2021
Local unemployment continues downward
LaSalle County unemployment was at 5.4% in May, down from 6.4% in April and 7.3% in March. The Illinois Department of Employment Security says there were similar drops in Putnam and Bureau counties. P...
Jun 24, 2021