The Kankakee-Will County positivity rate is still getting higher. Monday’s Region 7 positivity number was 19.7%. Kankakee’s individual figure is at 20.3% while Will County’s figure is 19.6. And ICU beds are being occupied...
Iroquois County now has 1,045 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The health department reported 102 new cases Monday. One additional death raises the local death count to 25. Health officials still saying many of the latest cases are...
Two separate traffic stops in Watseka led to the arrests of two local women. 35-year-old Heatgher Osborne of Watseka was charged with possession of METH and drug equipment. She was a passenger in a vehicle stopped on...
Illinois health officials reported 11,028 new COVID-19 cases Saturday, along with 166 additional deaths. Friday, Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike said there was a delay in death data reporting...
American flags proudly line Routes 1 and 24 throughout Watseka. Those flags were displayed Sunday be civic volunteers feeling patriotic gratitude to Army Sgt. Jeremy Cain Sherman, a 23-year-old who died along with six other...
Watseka native, Army Sgt. Jeremy Sherman, is identified as one of five American soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula Thursday. Officials report the crash happened during a peacekeeping...
The rising positivity rates during this resurgence of COVID-19 are anything but favorable.
The Region 6 positivity is 13 percent. That’s where Iroquois and Ford County sit along with Champaign and Vermilion County. Individually...
Three more area school districts have adjusted to COVID announcing a move to fulltime remote learning. St. Anne High and St. Anne Grade School districts will offer full remote learning beginning Monday, November...
Sarah Marion, the president and CEO for the Manteno Chamber of Commerce, was recently elected to the Executive Board for the Illinois Association of Chamber of Commerce. The Illinois Association serves more than 140 chambers...
Champaign Police were investigating the fatal shoting of a 16-year-old boy Thusday night. It happemed on Eureka Street around 5:20 pm The boy was rushed to a hspital but did not survive. Police found the teen at...
