Category Archives: WCMY News
Three new COVID-19 cases in LaSalle County; two new recoveries
The LaSalle County Health Department announced three new COVID-19 cases on Friday. The county's total number of cases is at 203. There are two new recoveries for a total of 147. The Illinois Departmen...
Jun 26, 2020
LaSalle man gets probation for posting sexual video online
A LaSalle man has probation for posting a sexual video of someone without their permission on Facebook. 30-year-old Ryan Dunne will have thirty-months on probation for that charge and 24-months each o...
Jun 26, 2020
Coal City man dies after crash south of Morris
The Grundy County Coroner says a Coal City man appears to have suffered a medical problem Thursday night. Sixty-six year old William Klegman's car was going very slowly when it went off Pine Bluff Rd....
Jun 26, 2020
People urged not to pester bear that's exploring Illinois
A black bear is exploring Illinois. State wildlife experts have been tracking it from Wisconsin to the Quad Cities where it crossed briefly over to Iowa, returned, and kept going south. Conservation P...
Jun 26, 2020
Ottawa fire department helps woman out of river
The Ottawa Fire Department helped a woman get out of the Illinois River Thursday. She was in the water off Buchanan and Douglas streets. She'd been with some others who went swimming in the water, but...
Jun 26, 2020
Illinois EPA tests confirm algae bloom by Starved Rock Lock and Dam
One of two compounds found in an Illinois River water sample last week mean there is an algae bloom underway. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency says the samples were taken from the north ba...
Jun 26, 2020
Hegeler Carus lawn concerts resume with pandemic admission policies
The Hegeler Carus Mansion summer concerts got started last Friday. Tonight's act is Al and Jeannie Brown, a locally known jazz group. The mansion's executive director Cindy Waddick says people going t...
Jun 26, 2020
LaSalle County reaches 200 COVID-19 cases; 145 recoveries
LaSalle County is up to 200 COVID-19 cases. The county health department announced four new cases on Thursday. The cases include two women in their twenties, a woman in her sixties, and a man in his s...
Jun 25, 2020
Mall developers eyeing housing
The owners of the Peru Mall want to develop housing there. A request to Peru City Hall for rezoning says the plan was always to build some kind of housing at the mall later in its development. Because...
Jun 25, 2020
Slight unemployment improvement from April to May
Unemployment went down locally from April to May. The Illinois Department of Employment Security says the rates for LaSalle County were 18.4% in April and 15.6% in May. Bureau County's dropped from 13...
Jun 25, 2020