School districts across the Illinois Valley have announced full closures or shifts to e-learning on Friday due to the dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills forecast.

Ongoing search efforts are scheduled to resume with the assistance of the Illinois Conservation Police.

La Salle police are seeking information on a three-vehicle crash Monday that injured the three drivers, one of whom was flown to a regional medical center.

Hasty said the architects have been updating their plan while working with city officials to address comments raised during recent discussions.

The Streator Eagle 6 has dimmed its lights for the last time this week, marking the end of a nearly decade-long run and leaving the city without a movie theater.

A Mendota man said he shot in self-defense. Prosecutors said the Mendota incident was a drive-by shooting. A La Salle County jury will have to settle that.

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A 15-year-old passenger extinguished an electrical fire in his vehicle on Tuesday at a Casey's gas station in Peru. Jesus Gonzalez of Streator put out the blaze that occurred near a gas pump at the station on Shooting Park Road. The vehicle sustained interior damage and was awaiting a tow truck following the incident.

A Streator man who set fire to the New Brite Spot in Ottawa in 2023 was sentenced Monday to a pair of four years for violating his probation for arson and for theft.

Two teens were charged with weapons violations after a burglary investigation, Streator police said in a Thursday news release.