Category Archives: WCMY News
Streator High School has two statewide FFA winners
The Streator High School FFA program has produced two statewide FFA Star award winners. Alea Ogle is a bakery owner and operator, running the Blue Eyed Rascal Baking Company in Streator. She wins the ...
Jun 20, 2020
Man found in creek was Kevin Comer
Fifty-nine year old Kevin Comer was the man whose body was found in Somonauk Creek in Sheridan Thursday afternoon. The LaSalle County Coroner's Office says Comer had recently moved to Sheridan after l...
Jun 19, 2020
Ottawa City Hall to close streets for Independence Day fireworks
Ottawa City Hall is closing streets and parking lots in the downtown area and the south side so people can see the fireworks display on Saturday July 4th. Public viewing areas are at the Jordan Block,...
Jun 19, 2020
No new LaSalle County COVID-19 cases; four new recoveries
There were no new COVID-19 cases in LaSalle County to report on Friday. The county health department says the case count remains at 188. Four more people have now recovered bringing that total to 137....
Jun 19, 2020
Riverfront development still snagged by deed restrictions
Ottawa has run into a snag in its riverfront development plan. The plan looks forward to hotels, an amphitheater, and a marina along the north side of the Illinois River where Central School used to b...
Jun 19, 2020
Ottawa will have fireworks in 2020
Raising money for it hasn't been easy this year, but there will be a fireworks show in Ottawa. Larry Johnson from Ottawa First said on WCMY's Morning Meeting Friday it'll be the night of Saturday, Jul...
Jun 19, 2020
Body found in creek in Sheridan
The name of a man whose body was found in Sheridan Thursday hasn't been made public yet. The LaSalle County Sheriff's Department says the body was found in Somonauk Creek around 1:20pm. Authorities di...
Jun 19, 2020
More than half of LaSalle County voters will get mail-in ballot applications
Whether new laws that Gov. Pritzker signed achieve a massive expansion of mail-in voting will depend on how many people want to vote that way this fall. LaSalle County Clerk Lori Bongartz says voters ...
Jun 19, 2020
Fact check: mail-in ballot expansion does not require just one in-person polling place per county
If you've been told that voting in person this fall means voting in just one polling place for the entire county, you've been told wrong. The new laws Gov. Pritzker signed require there to be one plac...
Jun 19, 2020
Five new COVID-19 cases in LaSalle County
The LaSalle County Health Department says there are five new COVID-19 cases. The county's total is at 188. New cases include a teen, a woman in her twenties, a woman in her forties, a woman in her fif...
Jun 18, 2020