Streator

As part of the Lions Clubs International Peace Poster Contest, the Hardscrabble Lions of Streator are sponsoring a local contest for youth, ages 11-13, with a chance to win money.

There are a number of seasonal festivals scheduled throughout the Illinois Valley this weekend, as well as a literature festival in Ottawa, a classic car/toy drive in Princeton and a whodunit performance in Streator.

It’s official, a Jimmy John’s is headed to Streator in 2022.

A Streator event organizer is asking the Streator City Council to allow alcohol and admission sales to put on a concert next summer at the Plumb Pavilion in City Park.

The American Red Cross continues to experience an emergency blood and platelet shortage that has caused the blood supply to drop to the lowest post-summer level in at least six years.

OSF Center for Health Streator will host a community blood drive from 10 am to 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, at 111 Spring St., inside Conference Room 1.

“There’s a lot going on that you can’t see,” said the director of “The Cat and the Canary,” the Community Players of Streator (also known as Engle Lane) stage production opening Thursday.

Here’s your chance to help Streator residents keep warm this winter.

The Streator Area Chamber of Commerce helped Chippers Grill celebrate its recent reopening with a ribbon cutting ceremony.

Seven fire departments in La Salle and Livingston counties were awarded grants from Illinois American Water to provide personal protective gear, communications equipment, firefighting tools, water handling equipment, training materials and/or classroom programs.