"Day" Jones interviews Annie Pesola and Laura Walker from Hegeler Carus Mansion. They discuss their Third-Thursday Concert Series, with Steve Sharp performing on July 17. Tickets are $5.

Illinois Valley Regional Dispatch was recognized by the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch as an accredited center of excellence for emergency police dispatching, IVRD said in a Wednesday news release.

Prospective nursing students will have the opportunity to apply for a new scholarship after the friends and family of Kathy Dungan donated more than $20,000 to endow a scholarship in her memory.

DePue native Nancy Biagioni was the recipient of 2025 Gift of Sight Award, the Eye Bank Association of America recently announced.

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4-H'ers from around the region flocked to the La Salle Fairgrounds for this year's La Salle County 4-H Fair.

Heartland by Hand announced that its downtown Ottawa gift shop is closing and its framing services will be relocating.

Republic Services will be running trash pickup over the weekend after it did not complete its Thursday stops, according to City of Peru.

At Thursday’s village board meeting, Utica Police Chief James Mandujano said the village force, which usually logs between 550 and 580 reports per year, is on pace for 640 this year. That would be an increase of at least 10%.

Misfits opened the bar portion of its business over the Fourth of July weekend.