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On June 1, the city of Marseilles recognized the Evola family for being in business for half a century, proclaiming the day as “Sam’s Pizza Day.”

Streator High School is moving forward with plans to build a new Career and Technical Education building along West Lincoln Avenue, with construction expected to be completed by early next year.

The Marquette Crusaders responded to Lexington’s one run in the top of the second inning with 10 of their own in the bottom half, propelling the defending 1A state champs into Saturday’s 1 p.m. title game via a dominant, 16-1 victory early Friday.

Ottawa Friendship House - On Saturday, July 26, 2025, Ottawa Friendship House and UAW Region 4 will host their annual Charity Golf Outing at Deer Park Golf Club in Oglesby, IL.

The former Illinois Valley Cellular building and site of the Middle East Conflicts Memorial Wall and Museum, located on 200 Riverfront, became a tumultuous topic during Wednesday’s Marseilles City Council meeting.

Diversified Sheet Metal has been named the Streator Area Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Business of the Month for June.

The Jammin’ at the Clock summer concert series will return to Heritage Park in downtown Streator for its 10th year, beginning with a performance by Noreen Stark on Friday, June 6.

The Ottawa Special Events Committee has announced the schedule for its 2025 Music in the Park concert series, bringing live music to Washington Park every Saturday evening this summer.

A new Chipotle restaurant is officially coming to Ottawa after Ottawa City Council gave final approval Tuesday night, following a recommendation from the plan commission last week.

Roosty’s Chicken & Shakes, a relatively new fast-casual restaurant is set to open a new drive-thru location at 2749 Columbus Street in Ottawa, the former site of a Dunkin’ Donuts.

The intersection of St. James Street and Island Avenue in Ottawa will be closed to through traffic beginning Thursday, June 5, for curb replacement work, city officials announced on Wednesday.

Memorial Day weekend wasn’t exactly a slow one for police thanks to domestics and people who skipped court dates. But drunk-driving arrests? There, the cops had a slow weekend. The La Salle County Circuit Clerk’s Office reported three DUI arrests.

Two cats are dead and two more are missing after a Streator fire Tuesday.

After months of discussion and revisions, the Ottawa City Council voted Tuesday to approve a solar farm on the city’s south side, greenlighting a project that has been under review since March.

Crews are expected to complete the project and reopen the block to traffic by early afternoon, weather permitting

The Marquette baseball team has earned the right to defend its Class 1A title and that chance begins with Friday's 10 a.m. state semifinal against Lexington at Illinois Field in Champaign.

A Streator man was picked up by Streator police early Wednesday morning following a house fire on Everett Street on Tuesday night in Streator.

Safe Journeys - Grooming is a manipulative process that predators use to gain a child’s trust and emotional connection, often with the intent of sexual exploitation.

In the early days of Facebook, we were tagged, poked, prodded and issued friend requests. We had no idea why we’re getting poked, tagged and prodded but we knew we liked it, we just weren’t sure why.

Logan’s Oasis will host a Motorcycle Run on Saturday, June 14, beginning at Mugshots, 809 S. Illinois St.

The Lemont softball team, behind clutch hitting and solid pitching, defeated host Ottawa 4-2 in Tuesday's Class 3A Sectional semifinal and advances to Friday's final against Providence Catholic.

Ottawa resident Hank Walsh has written a new nonfiction book, A History of Walsh Park, shares stories and photos from when the land was his family’s farm and how it became a city park.

The menu at Rivers Edge in Marseilles is Italian inspired with popular menu items including firecracker shrimp and their Brussels sprouts appetizer, the owners said.

On Monday, prosecutors showed some of Logan’s five-hour interview with Marseilles Police Sergeant Dan Ellis.

The Marquette baseball team led from start to finish in a 6-3 victory over Fulton in Monday's Class 1A DeKalb Supersectional at Northern Illinois University’s Ralph McKinzie Field. The Crusaders will now have a chance to defend their title from last season.

The Serena softball team scored four runs in the top of the first inning but couldn't stop LeRoy from scoring the next nine and taking control of Monday's Class 1A Wesleyan Supersectional.

A house fire broke out Sunday night on the 700 block of Fuller Avenue in Streator, severely damaging a single-family home.

Jamie Schmitt won the 77th annual Pine Hills Invitational at Pine Hills Golf Course in Ottawa on Sunday. Schmitt, after shooting a 2-under-par 70 on Saturday, roared to a second-round 66 to win his first championship at the event.

The Streator Family YMCA has been named the Streator Area Chamber of Commerce’s Business of the Month for May.

NSG Group recently announced its newest photovoltaic solar array at Pilkington, its Ottawa facility, which will supply about 3.9 gigawatt hours of renewable electricity annually.

The splash pad at City Park in Streator is expected to open Monday, June 2, if final testing goes well, the city announced Friday on Facebook.

The Streator Public Library will kick off its summer activities with a fun fair from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 14.

Children and their families across La Salle County will receive extra groceries in part thanks to a recent grant awarded by the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation.

State Rep. Amy “Murri” Briel, whose district covers La Salle, Bureau and DeKalb counties, introduced a new bill that will target deceptive sales on sexual assault survivors.

"Her email got me thinking about how we honor the day we were born, throughout the different phases of our lives," Jerrilyn Zavada Novak writes in her weekly Spirit Matters column.

Ottawa senior Weston Averkamp had a day to remember at Eastern Illinois University’s O’Brien Field, as the EIU recruit finished third in the Class 3A 300 hurdles and seventh in the 110 hurdles for Ottawa's best state place since 2006.

The Marquette baseball team scored three times in the fifth to break a scoreless game, and Alec Novotney fired a three-hitter with 13 strikeouts in a 5-1 win over Aurora Christian in Saturday's Class 1A Harvest Christian Sectional championship.

Joliet Catholic No. 9 hitter Matt Simmons broke a scoreless tie with an RBI single in the fourth, and that was enough for Hilltoppers ace Lucas Grant, who shut out Ottawa in Saturday's 3A Pontiac Regional championship game.

Ottawa will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday, June 3, to celebrate the opening of its new dog park, Bill’s Barking Lot, located at 401 E. Lafayette St.

Woodland Elementary and Junior High schools in rural Streator announced the honor roll for the fourth quarter of the 2024-2025 school year.

Illinois Valley Public Action to Deliver Shelter temporarily move its Ottawa operations to the former YMCA building on Jackson Street while construction begins on a new shelter facility.

Ottawa's Weston Averkamp qualified for Saturday's Class 3A finals in both the 110- and 300-meter hurdles during Friday's preliminaries at the IHSA Track and Field State Meet, while Sandwich's Petter Popp in the shot put and Jacob Ross in the pole vault will move on in 2A.

The Serena softball team defeated Marquette 6-2 in Friday's Class 1A sectional championship game to advance to Monday's Illinois Wesleyan Supersectional.

Ava Lorenzatti blasted a solo homer, and Taylor Norkus twirled a one-hit shutout as Beecher topped Seneca 1-0 to claim the 2A Seneca Sectional championship.

A Streator man was charged Friday in connection with a shooting Sunday that seriously injured a woman.

The final phase of Ottawa’s Green Street elevation project is set to begin Monday, June 9, resulting in a full closure of the road for four months.

A 14-year-old child riding an electric bike in Ottawa was injured Tuesday afternoon in a collision with a semi tractor-trailer on the city’s west side, according to the Ottawa Police Department.

Somonauk, Fieldcrest and Seneca all had advancers at the Class 1A state track and field preliminaries, while Ottawa's state-qualifying boys tennis doubles team got a pair of wins in the suburbs. This and more in The Times Thursday Roundup.

After nine and a half scoreless innings, Ottawa No. 8 hitter George Shumway delivered a two-out, run-scoring double to lift the Pirates past Streator 1-0 in 10 innings and into Saturday's 3A Pontiac Regional title game.

The La Salle County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday that it issued 102 citations during the Memorial Day “Click It or Ticket” enforcement campaign.