Spring Valley

While two high-ranking members of the \House of Representatives’ Veterans Affairs Committee offered an update on their work to a group of veterans and citizens at a town hall meeting at La Salle VFW on Saturday, the conversation also touched on rural health care issues.

Two Streator men were taken to La Salle County Jail following a traffic stop 9 a.m. Saturday on the 100 block of West Hickory Street, in which a firearm was recovered, police said.

There's plenty of opportunities to catch free live music in the Illinois Valley this summer. Here is a schedule for the summer.

Temperatures for the weekend are expected to be in the 80s and sunny skies are predicted as a number of swimming pools and splash pads are expected to be fully operational across La Salle and Bureau counties for the Memorial Day weekend. Here is when area pools are set to open.

This Memorial Day, remember those who sacrificed all while serving in the United States military with these ceremonies in La Salle, Bureau and Putnam counties.

The report included 51 documented cases in the Diocese of Peoria, which includes La Salle, Bureau, Putnam and Marshall counties, among 21 other counties.

14 of the fastest growing fast food chains in America already have restaurants in the Illinois Valley. Here's a look at the other 11 and where the closest restaurants are located. Which one of these will be the next to locate in the region?

A barn was lost in rural Hennepin as a result of a fire that ignited Sunday afternoon from the remnants of a bonfire the previous evening.

Hall High School in Spring Valley conducted its 2023 commencement ceremony Sunday outdoors at the high school.

The Conservation Garden at Hall High School is ready to put on its annual display of native plants.

Commander of the Spring Valley VFW Piercy Ward Post 3666, James Taylor, in conjunction with Commander of the Spring Valley American Legion Post 182, Robert Reed and the Day Family will host a Memorial Day ceremony

The Music Suite 408 flute ensembles, under the direction of Natalie Lindig and Sue Gillio, will present the 30th (almost) annual Spring Flute Fling at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 21, at the Zion United Church of Christ, 1521 Sixth St., Peru.

With less than a month before Spring Valley is poised to lose its hospital, lawmakers are working on a plan B: Expediting the reopening of the Peru hospital.

Visitors enjoyed 40 artisan vendors, live music by Darrell Data and a pair of food trucks at GROW Spring Valley's first Friday Night Market.

St. Margaret’s will close several clinics by June 9 – including the Hygienic Institute – and the Spring Valley hospital could close the following Friday, June 16, without emergency funding, possibly leaving western La Salle and eastern Bureau counties without an ER for the summer