Category Archives: WCMY News
No parking allowed on some Streator streets Thursday for snow plowing
The city of Streator needs to plow snow on Main, Bridge, Bloomington, and Park streets. It will do that Thursday, February 18. No parking will be allowed on those streets Thursday. Anyone who does par...
Feb 17, 2021
Governor makes budget speech; St. Sen. Rezin says he targets important tax credits
Gov. Pritzker says he's not calling for any tax increases on middle class people. He says he has found a way to spend $1.8 billion less in the next fiscal year. Pritzker is asking for $60 million more...
Feb 17, 2021
Collegiate summer baseball team moving from suburbs to Illinois Valley
A collegiate league summer baseball team plans to make Veterans Park in Peru its home field. Dennis Bastien is the Commissioner of the Prospect League. A team called the Pistol Shrimp began looking fo...
Feb 17, 2021
Broken fire sprinkler makes mini-flood at Southtowne Mall
There was a mini-flood at Southtowne Mall. Ottawa fire fighters investigated the problem yesterday morning. They traced it to a broken sprinkler head. The fire alarm was going off and couldn't be rese...
Feb 17, 2021
Gas smell traced to furnace problem at north side Ottawa restaurant
Nicor Gas turned off gas to a furnace on top of the Fondita Mexican Grill building yesterday morning. Natural gas was leaking into the building and some of the neighboring businesses on the north side...
Feb 17, 2021
Man charged in Capitol riot has local court case
A local man charged in connection with last month's U.S. Capitol riot is back in LaSalle County after being released from federal custody last week on personal recognizance. Twenty-eight year old Math...
Feb 17, 2021
Delayed Thornton Park improvements to be done in 2021
Ottawa City Commissioner Marla Rodriguez says a project that didn't get done as planned last year will be done this year. The city delayed Thornton Park improvements because of the pandemic. The grant...
Feb 17, 2021
St. Rep. Demmer calls for more open budget process
St. Rep. Tom Demmer is calling for a more open budget process. The Dixon Republican says the General Assembly let Gov. Pritzker manage the budget during the last year with a blank check because of the...
Feb 16, 2021
County gets fewer first doses of vaccine as focus shifts to second doses
The LaSalle County Health Department says it got 300 first doses of COVID-19 vaccine this week. That's down by 1,000 from what the department has been getting. And it's not sure how many doses will co...
Feb 16, 2021
Coronavirus recoveries outnumber new cases in county again
The number of current coronavirus cases in LaSalle County has dropped to 2,628. The health department figures reported today show 113 recoveries and just 17 new cases. It's the second day in a row tha...
Feb 16, 2021