Category Archives: WCMY News
Unemployment rates approaching pre-pandemic levels
Unemployment levels in the area are getting closer to what they were before the pandemic. The Illinois Department of Employment Security says 5.1% of LaSalle County residents who wanted jobs in Octobe...
Nov 25, 2020
Police renew calls for tips in Tina Donovan missing person case
An Ottawa woman vanished ten months ago, and police want everyone to know they're still looking for Tina Donovan. The 45-year old woman was last seen on January 13. Police believe Donovan went into th...
Nov 25, 2020
Fatal coronavirus cases reach 125 in county
The number of people with active coronavirus cases in LaSalle continues to climb. The number as of Wednesday's daily report is 2,475. The county's health department says two more people died of the in...
Nov 25, 2020
Health advice: if you travel for Thanksgiving gatherings, quarantine too
The advice from the health experts is not to have big family gatherings this Thanksgiving. Leslie Dougherty at the LaSalle County Health Department says the coronavirus doesn't care about it being a h...
Nov 25, 2020
Fireworks will signal start of Ottawa Deck the Parks
Ottawa City Commissioner Marla Rodriguez says Ottawa's "Deck the Parks" event will kick off Friday at 6pm. She says wherever you are in Ottawa at that time, look toward downtown. There’ll be a b...
Nov 25, 2020
Morris Hospital situation improves but CEO says keep your guard up
Morris Hospital says in a statement the number of patients there with the coronavirus has dropped from last week. But it's still a high enough number to be careful day by day scheduling surgeries that...
Nov 25, 2020
Sen. Rezin alarmed at veterans home developments
There are two things that came out of the Illinois Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing yesterday that stand out for Sen. Sue Rezin. She says it's alarming and unacceptable that staff who tested ...
Nov 25, 2020
Senate subcommittee digs into coronavirus at LaSalle veterans home
Changing the hand sanitizer at the veterans home in LaSalle is one thing the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs hope helps fight coronavirus there. ID...
Nov 24, 2020
Changes made at veterans home after COVID outbreak
The veterans home in LaSalle is getting a different brand of hand sanitizer to use in the fight against the coronavirus. The Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs says staff are being trained again ...
Nov 24, 2020
LaSalle County COVID fatalities up to 123
Five more COVID-19 related deaths were reported by the LaSalle County Health Department Tuesday. That makes 123 so far. As has been the case for the most part, the latest cases affected older people f...
Nov 24, 2020