Category Archives: WCMY News
Two-part traffic crash claims man's life northeast of Seneca
A Chicago man died in a traffic crash on Interstate 80 near the Seneca exit early this morning. Grundy County Coroner John Callahan says 20-year old Jake C. Enblom hit a guardrail from the eastbound l...
Jun 16, 2020
School administrators plan for many possibilities when the new school year starts
School administrators are preparing for several possibilities when the new school year starts in August. Between the guidelines from the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois Department o...
Jun 16, 2020
IVCH easing visitor restrictions
Illinois Valley Community Hospital will now allow patients on the medical floor and in the intensive care unit to have one visitor. The patient must designate who the visitor will be. The visitor must...
Jun 15, 2020
Three new COVID-19 cases in LaSalle County; five new recoveries
The LaSalle County Health Department reported three new COVID-19 cases on Monday. The cases are a male teen, a man in his thirties, and a man in his fifties. The county is up to 183 cases and 121 reco...
Jun 15, 2020
Illinois Commerce Commission to consider utility relief
The Illinois Commerce Commission is set to consider a utility relief plan when it meets on Tuesday. Citizen's Utility Board Spokesman Jim Chilsen says it's bad for everyone if people can't pay their u...
Jun 15, 2020
Junior livestock exhibitors still to have show
The Illinois State Fair has been cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Illinois Department of Agriculture Director Jerry Costello is hoping young people can still have a chance to show their liv...
Jun 15, 2020
Truck smashes through empty Peru Antique Mall building
A tractor trailer truck went off Interstate 80 and crashed all the way through the Peru Antique Mall building Monday morning. The antiques business closed a few months ago. The building is addressed o...
Jun 15, 2020
Cars to cruise for the first time in annual cruise night
The 22nd annual LaSalle County Cruise Night will be this Friday in Ottawa. Organizer Mike Dougherty says the people entering their cars will begin registering on Albin Stevens Dr. at 4pm. But instead ...
Jun 15, 2020
LaSalle County coronavirus case count climbs to 180
LaSalle County's coronavirus case count is 180. It went up by three Sunday with the addition of three men. The LaSalle County Health Department says two men in their 20s and one in his 50s tested posi...
Jun 15, 2020
Congressional candidate Brzozowski says seeing so many people calling for change is powerful
Complaints about police brutality aren't new. But protests on such a wide scale are. Democratic Congressional candidate Dani Brzozowski thinks George Floyd's death may be the straw that broke the came...
Jun 15, 2020