Category Archives: Local News
Evacuation order lifted after Illinois chemical plant blast
ROCKTON, Ill. (AP) - A fire chief is telling residents who were evacuated after a massive explosion at a northern Illinois chemical plant that they can return to their homes. Friday's announcement by ...
Jun 18, 2021
State scrambles to close offices Friday for new Juneteenth holiday; Post Office and other government offices remain open
Illinois government officials scrambled late Thursday afternoon to move to holiday status on Friday after President Joe Biden signed a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday. Since June 19th falls o...
Jun 18, 2021 City of Indianapolis | Mayor's Office
Salem Grade School Board gets updates on summer renovation projects
The Salem Grade School Board received an update Thursday night on major construction projects underway. Brad Graves of Omni Energy Partners says the reconstruction and enlargement of Hawthorn's new pa...
Jun 18, 2021 Retiring bookkeeper and Salem Grade School Board Secretary honored on her retirement at Thursday night's meeting. Photo by Tyler Perkins.
Marion County Property Tax Bills in the mail
Marion County property tax bills go in the mail on Friday. County Treasurer Gary Purcell says 34,496 bills have been prepared seeking to collected $39,288,636. That's about a million dollars more than...
Jun 18, 2021 Marion County Treasurer Gary Purcell looks over the new Marion County Treasurer website. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Centralia says "Thank You" with Industrial Commission Reception for business community
About 160 business and industrial leaders attended the Centralia Industrial Commission's Appreciation Reception Thursday night at the new Castle Ridge Resort. Centralia City Manager Forrest Langenfeld...
Jun 18, 2021 Centralia business and industrial leaders get together at a Thank You reception put together by the Centralia Industrial Commission. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Police Beat for Friday, June 18th, 2021
Salem Police arrested two persons wanted on warrants and later took one of them into custody for possession of methamphetamine. Police located 37-year-old Robert Garney of Selmaville Road and 34-year-...
Jun 18, 2021 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Police: 4 slain in Chicago mass killing all shot in head
CHICAGO (AP) - A police report says a mass shooting that left four people dead and four others wounded at a house on Chicago's South Side was believed to have been carried out by two people who shot a...
Jun 18, 2021 Arvell Dorsey Jr. / CC
Biden's silence on executions adds to death penalty disarray
CHICAGO (AP) - Activists widely expected Joe Biden to take swift action against the death penalty as the first sitting president to oppose capital punishment, but the White House has been mostly silen...
Jun 18, 2021
Illinois governor signs $42B state spending plan into law
CHICAGO (AP) - Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a $42 billion spending plan for Illinois that includes $2.5 billion in spending from a multi-year federal relief package. The budget came together after Pr...
Jun 18, 2021
Foam containing 'forever chemicals' used against plant fire
Government officials say a company hired to extinguish a fire that gutted a northern Illinois chemical plant used foam containing toxic compounds that have contaminated many U.S. waters. The U.S. Envi...
Jun 18, 2021 Forest Service, USDA
