Category Archives: WCMY News
Thursday COVID-19 count: 14 new cases in LaSalle County, state reports 1,624
LaSalle County announced 14 new cases of COVID-19 Thursday. The county health department says there are 378 total cases. Two new recoveries were also announced for a total of 225. The people who teste...
Jul 23, 2020
Fire fighter with COVID-19 wasn't working on an ambulance crew
Ottawa Fire Chief Andy Borkowski says the city's ambulance users are not believed to have had contact with the fire fighter sick with COVID-19 while he could have transmitted it. Borkowski says the ma...
Jul 23, 2020
Restoring order or causing chaos, Congressional candidates speak about federal law enforcement in cities
Pres. Trump is sending federal law enforcement agents to cities where he believes the police need help combating violence. Some people are likening that to a secret police force, because the agents ar...
Jul 23, 2020
No air conditioners for now at three Ottawa schools
Students at Jefferson, Lincoln, and McKinley schools in Ottawa will not have air conditioned classrooms when school resumes next month. The school board this week tabled a plan to add window or wall u...
Jul 23, 2020
LaSalle County coronavirus case count is up to 364
LaSalle County reported 14 new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday. The county health department says that makes a total of 364. One additional recovery was also reported. Among the people who tested positive...
Jul 22, 2020
Bishop Jenky to begin training his successor
Bishop Daniel Jenky is getting an assistant who will train to become the bishop when Jenky retires. Rev. Louis Tylka is coming from the Archdiocese of Chicago to be the Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese...
Jul 22, 2020
Interstate 80 closures coming for overpass removal
The bridge that takes LaSalle County Highway 9 or the Prairie Center Blacktop over Interstate 80 is being removed. That part of I-80 will be closed tonight (July 22nd to 23rd) from 9pm to 5am for the ...
Jul 22, 2020
Barge fleeting proposal also needs state permit
While the Army Corps of Engineers is in a permit process for a barge fleeting proposal east of Seneca, so is the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. IDNR is taking public comments until August 1...
Jul 22, 2020
Doctors expect no risk of COVID-19 from mosquito bites
West Nile Virus and other diseases are spread by mosquitoes. What about COVID-19? Doctors don't think so. Dr. Cliff Martin with OSF Healthcare says for the most part, mosquitoes that bite you in the U...
Jul 22, 2020
Mornings in school, afternoons online--Ottawa Elementary approves back-to-school plan
Unable to feed children in the cafeterias with enough distance between them under pandemic rules, the Ottawa Elementary School District is going for half-day in-school sessions in the new school year....
Jul 21, 2020