Starved Rock Lodge will host their annual Bunny Bash at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, March 21.

Mendota High School will host a free presentation on protecting children from online dangers on Tuesday, March 24, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the auditorium.

Registration for the 2026 Marseilles Recreation baseball and T-ball season will close Saturday, March 21, after being open for about a month.

There will be a November rematch of the 2024 contest for statehouse: Rep. Amy “Murri” Briel (D-Ottawa) will again try to fend off Republican challenger Liz Bishop of La Salle.

“I’m super excited,” Wittig said. “We had a lot of people put in a lot of hard work and the vote turned out in our favor.”

Tom Kammerer won the vote over Edward Jauch for the Republican nomination for Bureau County Sheriff, according to unofficial results on Tuesday night.

The polls have closed. Here are live March 2026 primary election results for La Salle, Bureau and Putnam counties. Tallies will be updated as county clerks update their websites.

With the polls closed for the 2026 Primary Election, all that’s left is the counting. Here’s what we’re looking for tonight.

Polling places in the Illinois Valley were full on Tuesday morning – with election judges, that is. Voters, on the other hand, were pretty scarce.