School kids in Illinois will be finishing out the school year from home. Governor JB Pritzker announced Friday students will continue to learn remotely. He said it’s just not safe for students to go back to their normal routine...
Parts of central-Illinois experienced more than 5-inches of snow overnight. A late-season storm moved through the state. The NWS had a winter weather advisory in place until 10 am (Friday) and until early afternoon for others.
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Governors of seven Midwestern states announced (Thursday) that they will coordinate on reopening their state economies amid the coronavirus pandemic after similar pacts were made in the Northeast and on the West...
Illinois Public Health officials announced Thursday the state had recorded 125 new cases of coronavirus, the highest daily death count since the pandemic began. There's now 1,072 deaths from the virus. The count...
The Indiana State Department of Health reported Tuesday that now 8,955 people in Indiana have been diagnosed with the coronavirus. 436 people have died from the virus.
New cases were reported in Benton, Jasper, Cass, Clinton...
Local government officials are working that financial-pencil in trying to figure how the current COVID-19 crisis is/may affect the working budget. Tax revenues play their role in available working cash flow and with the state and...
Winter, it appears, is still around. Ford and Iroquois counties are in line for an April burst of snow. East-central Illinois counties and then-some might see 4-6 inches of snow tonight into Friday afternoon. The National Weather...
I-57 in Iroquois County is among several Illinois routes posing hazardous driving conditions this (Wednesday) morning. Roads are covered in sheets of ice. Snowfall has melted on roadways then freezing and posing slick...
Three people, including a juvenile, face felony charges after an armed robbery in Sheldon Monday. Iroquois County Sheriff's Police report an Indiana man was lured to Sheldon then robbed at gunpoint. The suspects took $500...
The 12th coronavirus death was announced Tuesday by the Kankakee County Public Health Department. A male in his 80’s was added to the fatality list. Eight new cases were showing positive results, the county total now at 228.
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