Category Archives: WCMY News
Oglesby American Legion commemorates Veterans Day
Veterans Day will be commemorated Wednesday starting with a parade down Clark Street in Oglesby about 10:30am from the American Legion to Memorial Park. At exactly 11:11am American Legion members will...
Nov 10, 2020
St. Margaret's Hospital and IVCH allowed to join forces
St. Margaret's Hospital and Illinois Valley Community Hospital are starting a slow integration process. The state is allowing a partnership in which they'll become St. Margaret's Health Spring Valley ...
Nov 10, 2020
Streator school stands by their COVID protocols
Dr. Lisa Parker, District 44 Superintendent, says two weeks ago a student at Kimes Elementary tested positive for the coronavirus and the instructor who taught the student, but didn’t come withi...
Nov 9, 2020
Senator Sue Rezin picked as deputy leader
Illinois State Senator Sue Rezin says she is very proud of how many of her colleagues in the Illinois House of Representatives hung on to their seats this Election Day. Senator Sue Rezin says: Rezin c...
Nov 9, 2020
Five fatal cases, 158 new confirmations in county's latest corona count
Five more coronavirus deaths and 158 new cases were reported in LaSalle County Monday. Those are records for one day. The number of known or probable active COVID-19 cases is 1,558. The figures are su...
Nov 9, 2020
Authorities look into child's death in Ottawa
Ottawa police are looking into what happened to a child on the south side Sunday night. The child died after a call for an ambulance around eight o'clock. The child had been reported to be unconscious...
Nov 9, 2020
LaSalle County deputies to do Christmas For Kids with a change
The LaSalle County Sheriff's deputies Christmas for Kids will be different this year. Deputy Felicia Rasmussen says deputies won't be able to take kids to stores, but the program is going on. Deputies...
Nov 9, 2020
Ogle County Demmer-Wiggins votes not counted yet
Ogle County may have results to report in the Illinois House 90th District race tomorrow. The county clerk there says a programming error kept the ballot counting machines from reading the marked oval...
Nov 9, 2020
Cong. Kinzinger statement on veterans home COVID cases
Cong. Adam Kinzinger says he'll keep the residents and staff at the veterans home in LaSalle in his prayers. He issued a statement over the weekend about the coronavirus outbreak there. The Illinois D...
Nov 9, 2020
LaSalle County tops 1,300 active coronavirus cases
LaSalle County is up to 1,334 active coronavirus cases as of Sunday. The county's health department says 76 people from the county have died of the virus. The latest is a woman in her 90s. She was inc...
Nov 9, 2020