The unemployment rate decreased in all fourteen Illinois metropolitan areas in July according to preliminary data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Illinois Department of Employment Security...
The Watseka Area Chamber of Commerce extends a welcome to everyone to today's (Wednesday) BUSINESS BLOCK PARTY. It's downtown Watseka under the big tent at the First Trust & Savings Bank parking lot. The FREE...
A Positive Mosquito Pool -- the Iroquois County Public Health Department confirms the first specimen has tested positive for West Nile Virus (WNV) in Iroquois County. Local health officials continue to monitor for the...
The Village of Manteno is announcing the opening of the Fitness Court at Legacy Park. The official opening also welcomes the public to a Community Grand Opening on Saturday, September 3 at 9 am.
Village officials...
If you are not registered to vote, and wish to be, please call the Iroquois County County Clerk’s
Office at 815-432-6960.
A list of registrars and locations to register voters is available at the Clerk’s
office. You may also...
19-year-old Kacie Carswell of Georgetown and 31-year-old Shane Baker of Hoopeston face charges after Hoopeston police officers made a traffic stop and Bank and E. Penn Monday night. Carswell failed to stop at a stop sign...
A traffic stop in Watseka led to the arrest of 43-year-old Jeremiah Walker. The Watseka man is charged on three outstanding Iroquois County warrants for theft and burglary and for failing to appear in court for another...
Illinois EPA officials are suspending hazardous waste collections programs temporarily. Agency officials announced Monday that the current disposal facility in Ohio where they send hazardous waste to had a fire in July and...
An Illinois law prohibiting Kankakee and McHenry county jails from holding federal immigrant detainees runs into another roadblock. The 7th Circuit Court recently ruled to uphold an earlier ruling regarding the case that other...
An Illinois criminal justice reform group is not happy with a new ad which attacks the Pretrial Fairness Act, the law starting next year that abolishes cash bail. Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts says the ad is...
