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Illinois’ inability to pass pension reform was the reason Fitch Ratings gave for downgrading the state’s credit r...
Unemployment was down in LaSalle County and the surrounding counties in April. LaSalle County unemployment was 11.9 percent i...
Ottawa’s police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers have taken over dispatching for Marseilles.Ottawa Police Chief Brent R...
Most of Ottawa’s appointed city employees are getting their first pay raises in three years.Mayor Bob Eschbach says mos...
The Senate is moving forward with a union-backed pension bill instead of the plan passed by the House. Senate President John ...
With a three to two vote this week, the Ottawa City Council approved hiring part time telecommunicators to work at the police...
Connecting Point Computer Centers of Peru has a $9,000 contract proposal to update the city of Ottawa’s web site.Fi...
Unemployment was down in LaSalle County and the surrounding countiesin March. LaSalle County unemployment was at 13.6 percent...
A new labor agreement with the Ottawa fire fighters would require newly hired fire fighters to live in town.Those already on ...
Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry is spending money on advertisements to tell Illinois businesses to consider moving to Te...
With the city having trouble keeping new police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers on the job, Ottawa Mayor Bob Eschbach is pro...
Executive Director of Families USA, Ron Pollack, broke down the tax credit part of the Affordable Care Act for Ottawa Radio T...
The Ottawa City Council has approved its contract with the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees.Now ...
The unemployment rate in the Ottawa-Streator area went up slightly in February. It was 13.1 percentin January and rose to 13....
Taxpayers United of America has compiled a list of local public employees and retirees who draw big paychecks.The organizatio...
A Florida company with a call center location in Streator is about to add 200 people to its local workforce of about 285.Geri...
The Ottawa City Council and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees have agreed to a three year lab...
A union that represents Caterpillar Inc. workers says short-term layoffs at Peoria-area plants will continue. The layoffs sta...
Unemployment is up with a vengeance.The Illinois Department of Employment Security reports a 13.5% unemployment rate in Janua...
About 70 labor union members held an informational picket outside the Etna Rd. courthouse Monday night while the LaSalle Coun...
Gov. Pat Quinn says he’d sign a pension reform bill today if the General Assembly would send it to him. In his budget a...
The Illinois Valley Community College board approved a new certification program last month. It’s called the Certified ...
Former LaSalle County prosecutor Melissa Olivero has a new job with the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, DC.She&...
Some local workforce investment areas organized under state government are changing. That means the Dislocated Workers Center...
A top House Democrat wants to make a state income tax hike permanent and raise the retirement age to get Illinois out of its ...
A top Republican leader is scrutinizing a new Illinois pension overhaul that would make a state income tax hike permanent. Se...
Twenty-nine employers and hundreds of job seekers lined the hallways of the South Towne Mall at Wednesday morning’s job...
In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for a federal minimum wage increase to $9 an hour. Days before ...
If you’re heading to the job fair at Southtowne Mall Wednesday, be sure to dress and act like you’re seriously lo...
The union representing Illinois correctional workers is demanding a stop to what it says is the transfer of violent maximum-s...
Financial difficulties are leading one small eastern Illinois school district to consider firing about a fifth of its teacher...
As of Monday, 27 employers were signed up for the Just Hire One job fair in Southtowne Mall in Ottawa next Wednesday. Dianna ...
Steve Conrad of Cement Masons Local 11, Mark Parisot of Laborers Local 393, and Mike Mateka, the Director of Governmental Aff...
The state's largest government employee union is letting its members know that a strike may be coming. The American Feder...
Many Democrats in the legislature are on board with a plan to boost the state's minimum wage. They say hard-working famil...
Gov. Pat Quinn talked about health care in his State of the State Address Wednesday. He says hundreds of thousands of Illinoi...
Illinois applications for unemployment benefits are now available online in Spanish and Polish. Department of Employment Secu...
The Chicago Teachers Union says an audited budget for the last school year showing an extra $344 million indicates the ci...
Local unemployment skyrocketed last month locally. In the Ottawa-Streator area, unemployment was 9.7 percent in November and ...
Federal prosecutors say 32 Chicago-area residents are charged with defrauding the state unemployment system of more than $...
Illinois' public employee unions are asking for a meeting with Gov. Pat Quinn and legislative leaders to come up with an ...
The Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund board plans to vote tomorrow on whether to divest itself of holdings in firearms manuf...
The Illinois Department of Employment Security has announced it is closing seven offices and reducing staff by nearly 200 peo...
The Business Employment Skills Team and North Central Illinois Works hope they can get local employers to hire one more perso...
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is prepared to do whatever it takes to get a pension deal by the end of the day. Several proposal...
There’s a new agreement between the Ottawa City Council and the union representing the city’s fire fighters. The ...
Unemployment held steady in LaSalle County from October to November. Last month was the third month in a row at 10.1% for the...
Pension reform is still a high priority during next week's lame duck session. Governor Quinn believes lawmakers can negot...
Ottawa fire fighters are comfortable working with seven, eight, or nine people per shift. But they’ve been down to six ...
Ottawa High School officials are taking a defensive move in case state lawmakers change the school district self-insurance po...
Governor Quinn has released a new pension's video, highlighting the need for immediate reform. It features kids in a focu...
A group of University of Illinois professors have a plan to reform the retirement system for university employees. In a propo...
Retiring U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson says he'll work for an Illinois law firm when he leaves Congress in January and teach at I...
Gov. Pat Quinn says the pension crisis is Illinois' own fiscal cliff. The Chicago Democrat spoke to reporters yesterday d...
More than 150 employees of a telecommunications company in eastern Illinois have gone on strike as contract talks have stalle...
The Illinois Department of Employment Security says a federal program that provided unemployment insurance beyond the state&#...
Illinois-based nonprofit agencies report tough financial times. Nonprofit organizations say the mismanagement of finances by ...
Rank-and-file lawmakers frustrated by slow progress and finger-pointing are offering their own solution to Illinois' mult...
More than 20,000 students in suburban Chicago will be back in class after teachers and the school district reached a tentativ...
The Ottawa City Council will keep fighting an arbitrator’s decision that the city should hire back a police officer it ...
Illinois has an 83-billion dollar underfunded pension liability but lawmakers aren't expected to do anything about it for...
Illinois lawmakers return to the Capitol Tuesday for the final three days of the Legislature's fall session. But big issu...
Sandra Juliffs is retiring from the Tri-County Opportunities Council. She’s been the president of the council for 29 ye...
Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. might still be able to collect $45,000 a year in federal retirement benefits. He wou...
A union representing graduate employees of the University of Illinois has reached a deal on a tentative contract with the uni...
State employees could have their salaries capped as lawmakers look to get the budget under control. A House committee will me...
Ottawa City Hall is hiring The Retail Coach, a firm to pitch Ottawa as a location for expanding businesses to grow in. Mayor ...
The Quinn administration has terminated the contract between the state of Illinois and its largest public employee union. Ass...
More than 400 employees at the University of Illinois' campus in Urbana-Champaign are earning an annual salary of $15...
Reaction to Gov. Pat Quinn's online campaign to excite Illinoisans about pension reform is prompting scathing criticism, ...
Illinois Senate President John Cullerton is defending attempts to fix the state's pension problem after an influential bu...
Illinois lawmakers are considering a measure to cap any wage increases for state employees in contracts negotiations between ...
A spokesman says Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is happy an influential business group will help "sound the alarm" on pens...
A former Marine Corps Sergeant who was paralyzed while serving in Afghanistan is suing O'Hare International Airport after...
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says the best way to honor veterans is to make sure they have jobs and the mental health care they need...
Governor Pat Quinn says now that the election is over, it's time for lawmakers to put politics aside and get busy on issu...
If you’re looking for a Postal Service job, go to the post office in LaSalle Wednesday. Ottawa Postmaster Janet Spanos ...
A proposed amendment to the Illinois Constitution that would have made it more difficult to expand public employee retirement...
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is reminding voters of some basic rights ahead of Tuesday's election. Madigan says...
A Utah-based company has agreed to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it hired convicted felons to sell security s...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's administration has asked a judge in Cook County to allow the state to proceed with prison closu...
School officials in another suburban Chicago school district say they're preparing for a strike. The teachers' union ...
Gov. Pat Quinn has again pushed back the timeline for when he'll reveal his so-called grassroots campaign to rally suppor...
The Illinois Department of Employment Security says it’s getting a little easier for people in the Chicagoland area to ...
House GOP Leader Tom Cross says families have felt the brunt of all the game-playing and failed policies under the Rod Blagoj...
A nurses union has gone to court in an attempt to prevent the closure of a mental health facility in Rockford. The Illinois N...
Voters will decide next month whether to change the Illinois Constitution so that it's harder to improve retirement benef...
Illinois Valley Community College has forged an employment pipeline with MAG-IAS. Four students have interned with the intern...
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he will expend as much political capital as necessary to push for pension reforms, but that l...
State officials say they have found about 1,100 inmates who improperly collected more than $2 million in unemployment ben...
The Chicago Teachers Union says its teachers and support staff have overwhelmingly approved a new three-year contract that in...
Illinois is getting $2.7 million to strengthen its efforts to fight waste and fraud involving unemployment claims. The gr...
The unemployment rate in the Ottawa Streator area fell to 10.8 percent in August from 11.3 percent in August of last year. Th...
A union for Illinois government workers says negotiations with the state are at a "virtual standstill." The America...
The pension system for thousands of Illinois teachers is officially lowering the forecast of how much money it will make on i...
A former attorney for the Illinois' Teacher Retirement System has been sentenced to two years of probation for his role i...
Chicago teachers are suspending a seven-day strike in the nation's third-largest city, a move that will send thousands of...
Teachers in the Evanston Skokie School District 65 have a new contract after unanimous approval by the Board of Education. Te...
Exelon Generation is holding a community information night at the Seneca Public Library today (Thursday, September 13). LaSal...
The Ottawa City Council is ready to buy the old Central School building. It’s on an agenda for a special city council m...
Former Governor Jim Edgar supports pension reform for lawmakers only. He tells "Crain's Chicago Business" it wo...
An arbitrator says Governor Quinn needs to go back to the bargaining table before shutting down state prisons and youth deten...
The Chicago Teachers Union says members will walk off the job on Sept. 10 unless a new contract is reached with Chicago Publi...
The judge in a dispute over Illinois workers' pay raises is telling Gov. Pat Quinn's administration to hand over unsp...
Standard & Poor's lowered the state's credit rating from A-plus to A yesterday, news that State Treasurer Dan Rutherf...
Illinois Republicans are saying any vote for a Democrat for an Illinois House seat is a vote for Mike Madigan as House Speake...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has officially abandoned his hope of shutting down prisons by Friday. A letter from the Corrections D...
Illinois is edging closer to having its credit rating lowered because officials have failed to address the state's massiv...
Illinois lawmakers' inability to reform the state's public retirement system is likely to weigh on the state's al...
Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital says it has laid off about 230 employees over the past month in an effort to red...
Delegates of the Chicago Teachers Union have authorized the union president to give the required 10 days' advance notice ...
Twenty-eight appointed city employees are covered under a one-year contract the Ottawa City Council placed on file this week....
Governor Quinn is recruiting the people of Illinois to convince lawmakers to reform the state’s pension systems. It&rsq...
The Illinois GOP is slamming House Speaker Michael Madigan for accepting a 97-thousand dollar contribution from the SEIU Unio...
The Chicago Teachers Union has begun informational pickets at several elementary schools to call attention to ongoing contrac...
Illinois lawmakers are playing the blame game when it comes to their failure to pass a pension reform bill. Republicans say F...
A Johnson Controls facility in Kankakee has been cited for five health violations involving workers and asbestos. The Occupat...
Gov. Pat Quinn's budget director says the gridlock on an Illinois pension overhaul is "baffling" but the loomin...
State Representative Pam Roth says there’s no way to solve the pension problem during a one-day special session. Accor...
Officials with the union that represents almost 800 striking workers at a Caterpillar Inc. plant in Joliet say a tentative de...
Gov. Pat Quinn faced an avalanche of boos from union protesters when he spoke at the Illinois State Fair. Some protesters sho...
Google Inc.'s plan to cut more than 700 jobs at Motorola Mobility's operations in Illinois means the company will los...
With Illinois officials talking about pension cuts, more government employees are choosing to retire now in hopes of locking ...
One way LaSalle County protects itself from financial problems is through an insurance requirement for contractors. LaSalle C...
Northern Illinois University officials are investigating reports of an alleged secret bank account channeling thousands of do...
Illinois is making it illegal for employers to ask job-seekers to hand over passwords to their social networking accounts. Go...
Come January 1st, Illinois employers will be banned from asking their workers or potential workers for passwords to their soc...
An email from an Illinois Department of Corrections administrator ordered wardens at 10 prisons to conduct "mass shakedo...
Gov. Pat Quinn has called lawmakers back to Springfield for a one-day special session to reform the state's pension syste...
Illinois officials have taken the unusual step of searching prison guards and other employees for contraband as they're l...
A shakedown of cells at a prison in southern Illinois has turned up weapons and other contraband.A union official representin...
Gov. Pat Quinn says the outsourcing of 170 northern Illinois jobs is a good reason to back a piece of federal legislation to ...
Unemployment took a big jump up from May to June in the local area. The LaSalle County rate climbed from 9.8% to 11.4%. Howev...
An Illinois union for paralegals and clerical staff authorizes a strike at the Springfield offices of the state's Attorne...
Chicago's public schools and the union representing teachers have reached an agreement that will give students a longer s...
Illinois lawmakers will return to work August 17 and they could be disciplining one of their own. House Speaker Michael Madig...
A nearly year-long investigation in Illinois has led to indictments against 19 people accused of stealing unemployment benefi...
Gov. Pat Quinn says solving Illinois' pension problem is imperative, and he's warned lawmakers not to go anywhere nex...
Both the Chicago school board and the city's teachers union have rejected a fact finder's recommendation to give teac...
The president of the Chicago Teachers Union says an independent fact finder has recommended teachers should have their pay in...
There’ll be one retirement followed by two promotions at the Ottawa Fire Department in a few days. Captain Ed Taylor&rs...
A published report says Chicago pays $18 million a year for police officers on disability, including those who pursue deg...
Sandwich Castings and Machine isn’t looking out for the safety of its employees, according to the Occupational Safety a...
Illinois officials are pushing to find jobs for military veterans with a job fair. Gov. Pat Quinn and other officials showed ...
Legislation that gives Illinois employers more incentive to hire veterans is law. Gov. Pat Quinn has signed a bill that incre...
Hundreds of janitors at O'Hare International Airport may soon lose their jobs. The Service Employees International Union ...
Gov. Pat Quinn spent the morning of the Fourth of July signing three new laws that affect service members. Quinn signed the m...
Steve Conrad is beginning a new two-year term as the president of the Illinois Valley Building Trades Council. Dave Argubrigh...
Illinois' U.S. senators are split along party lines in reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on health care. The cour...
Nearly 2,000 Illinois residents are covered by a federally funded health plan for people who were denied insurance because of...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is delighted with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling upholding the majority of President Barack Obam...
Illinois officials and the union representing thousands of state workers have agreed to extend the current contract as negoti...
The Financial Plus Credit Union Scavenger Hunt coin has been found in Ottawa! Jay talks with Sandy Burkart just after 4:30 wi...
The Obama administration has announced that 300,000 Illinoisans will benefit from nearly $62 million in rebates from insu...
It looks like lawmakers won't reach an agreement on how to solve Illinois' grossly underfunded pension problem anytim...
For the fourth consecutive month, local unemployment numbers have dropped. The Illinois Department of Employment Security say...
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Gov. Pat Quinn has signed a law that ends free health care for state retirees and requires them all to contribute to the cost...
Illinois Valley Community College trustees have approved raises for part time faculty, support staff, and administrators. The...
A study finds government pension systems sank deeper into the red as the recession took its toll and states spent their scarc...
Illinois will hire a state actuary to report on pension systems. Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation yesterday requiring an act...
LaSalle County is joining a statewide mutual aid group for coroners and medical examiners. If the coroner is overloaded becau...
Unemployment continued to drop slowly across Illinois in May, partly due to job growth in manufacturing. The Illinois Departm...
The Chicago Teachers Union says nearly 90 percent of teachers voted in favor of giving the union authorization to strike. Uni...
Caterpillar has started advertising for replacement workers to fill in for striking workers at its plant in Joliet. The Inter...
Top state officials are trying to figure out what it will take to finish the job of cutting Illinois pension costs. Lawmakers...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn calls a huge pension overhaul the "reform of our lifetime," but he's saying little abou...
Illinois Valley Community College is getting a $99,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the college&rsqu...
The Illinois Legislature's spring session is over, but the work isn't. Gov. Pat Quinn and legislative leaders say the...
The top Republican in the Illinois House says he is shelving legislation to rein in ballooning government pension costs. Hous...
Union workers at Joliet's Caterpillar Inc. plant have again rejected a contract proposal from the company. Steve Jones is...
House Speaker Michael Madigan says he's dropping his proposal to make Illinois schools and colleges pay retirement costs ...
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan says it would be unconstitutional to force current state employees to work to age 67 b...
G&D Integrated has notified almost 200 of its employees in Peoria that they'll lose their jobs by the end of the summer. ...
Lawmakers want to make sure you're not punished for what you do or say on Facebook. They've passed a bill banning emp...
One thousand members of the AFSCME union are expected to show up at the capitol today. Their goal is to lobby lawmakers for a...
Researchers at University of Illinois at Chicago will get a $950,000 grant for a three-year study to help city government...
Unemployment across Illinois dropped in April for an eighth straight month, but job growth all but stalled. The Illinois Depa...
A federal appeals court is backing Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn over pay raises his administration canceled for thousands of union...
Illinois cities and schools would lose hundreds of millions of dollars under a pension proposal from House Speaker Michael Ma...
The Chicago Teachers Union has ousted a member for life for allegedly feeding information about a union meeting to a public s...
St. Sen. Sue Rezin (R-Morris) says the minimum wage increase passed in the Ill. Sen. Executive Committee Wednesday is well in...
Child care funding is being restored just one week after Governor Quinn announced the state could no longer afford to pay it....
Mayors from around Illinois have joined Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in warning municipalities could face bankruptcy if state l...
Longtime Illinois state employees could be on the verge of losing the free health insurance they get in retirement. Legislati...
Longtime state employees would no longer be able get free health insurance when they retire under legislation approved by the...
A lawmaker says Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's pitch for reducing city pension costs could help push a fix for statewide re...
The Quinn administration is making the argument that cutting health care and pension costs could help businesses grow in Illi...
Congressman Adam Kinzinger says about half of college graduates are out of work or underemployed. The Republican 11th Distric...
Illinois voters will decide this fall whether to change the state constitution so that it's more difficult to sweeten gov...
An Illinois House committee wants to take away a perk for government retirees who get a big break on health insurance. State ...
Illinois' dropping unemployment rate will trigger the end of a federal program for the long-term jobless in Illinois. The...
Caterpillar workers in Joliet are braving the weather today and protesting the terms of their latest contract offer. The work...
An Illinois lawmaker wants to make sure what's posted on Facebook won't come back to bite job searchers. Representati...
Jack Teausant, President and CEO of Financial Plus Credit Union was inducted into the Illinois Credit Union Hall of Fame last...
Local unemployment rates have dropped for the second month in a row. The Illinois Department of Employment Security says LaSa...
The state auditor says Illinois hands out workers' compensation payments too easily and lacks enough employees to spot fr...
Another advocacy group is using the prospect of job losses to oppose Gov. Pat Quinn's plan to cut Medicaid. The Responsib...
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan supports a cigarette tax increase to shore up Medicaid but is predicting Republicans w...
Congressman Bobby Schilling says Peoria Bishop Daniel Jenky meant no harm when he compared some of President Obama's heal...
Congressman Aaron Schock is applauding Governor Quinn for taking steps to fix the state's Medicaid and pension problems b...
Illinois is stepping up criminal prosecution of unemployment fraud with the addition of two attorneys. The Illinois Departmen...
A published report says more than half of Illinois day cares haven't been inspected by the state. The Chicago Tribune rep...
A federal appeals court reversed a decision recognizing rehire rights for laid-off tenured teachers and a requirement that Ch...
An Illinois lawmaker says a group seeking solutions to the state's pension problems hasn't finished even as Gov. Pat ...
The Ottawa City Council is applying for grants to rewater part of the Illinois and Michigan Canal and streetscape another are...
The LaSalle County Board and five security guards have agreed on a one-year labor contract retroactive to December 1. County ...
A top state Democrat says pension boosts for public employees in Illinois should require more support in the General Assembly...
A workers panel from LaSalle County will tell real life stories of their working conditions generations ago. Former Business ...
Union contracts for 40,000 AT&T workers expired at midnight, but a strike was averted as officials said early Sunday that tal...
A new JobLink system is in place to help Illinois residents find jobs and connect with employers. The system allows businesse...
Ottawa City Hall is asking the three unions that represent city employees to take pay freezes next fiscal year. One has agree...
State Senator Sue Rezin says it’s wrong to think all states have all the same troubles Illinois has. The Morris Republi...
The director of the Illinois Teachers Retirement System is warning that financial troubles are so great it could consider red...
A teachers union in Rockford has ratified a tentative contract agreement that ended a two-day strike in the northern Illinois...
Workers at the Kohl’s distribution center in Ottawa put out a fire Saturday afternoon. The Ottawa Fire Department says ...
The state of Illinois is refunding money it took from retirement checks. The money was taken from the accounts of people who ...
The city clerk in Mendota says the northern Illinois city has received federal notice that RR Donnelley will close its local ...
The Illinois House wants to bar employers from asking workers and job applicants for access to social media like Facebook. Th...
Unemployment is down again in the local area according to the Illinois Department of Employment Security. A 13.0% rate was re...
A Menard's worker is discovered dead on the job. Officials say Evaristo Alvarado was working on a forklift when he became...
Lawmakers are moving to put more veterans to work. State Senators passed a proposal to up the tax incentive for businesses th...
Congressman Aaron Schock was in the room as the U.S. Supreme Court justices heard arguments over the Affordable Care Act Tues...
Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock will be on hand as the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments for and against the individu...
Unemployment in Illinois declined in February for the sixth-consecutive month. The Illinois Department of Employment Security...
Supt. Wade Winekauf is pleased, although it’s a slim majority of voters who approved the property tax increase for the ...
Unemployment surged upward in the local area in January. The Illinois Department of Employment Security says 13% of people wh...
Union employees will rally Thursday outside of the Illinois Youth Center to try to prevent the closing of the Joliet facility...
Illinois Valley Community College is one of the healthiest companies in America. Vice President for Business Services & Finan...
Officials at an Illinois company that lost a bid for state employees' insurance contracts say they're not surprised b...
Illinois added 3,800 jobs in January, and the state unemployment rate fell for the fifth straight month to 9.4 percent. The I...
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will have $107,367 from his pension to give his wife and daughters as he heads off t...
Ottawa Regional Hospital will ask the Illinois Health Facilities Planning and Services Review Board next month for permission...
A local effort for southern Illinois tornado relief is coming together at the Laborers Local 393 union hall in Marseilles. Th...
Health Alliance Insurance is getting another shot at bidding for a long-term healthcare contract for state employees and reti...
Some 500 home health care workers packed the state Capitol yesterday to protest plans for deep cuts to human services. The pr...
The Illinois Department of Employment Security says it has recovered more than $20 million from people who wrongfully col...
Gov. Pat Quinn wants to eliminate the state's contributions toward health insurance benefits for retired school teachers ...
The Senior Vice President of Financial Plus Credit Union is serving a three-year term on the Illinois Credit Union League&rsq...
LaSalle Station’s Unit 1 nuclear reactor is shut down for a planned refueling outage. Exelon Nuclear spokesperson Megan...
LaSalle Station’s Unit 1 nuclear reactor is shut down for a planned refueling outage. Exelon Nuclear spokesperson Megan...
The Illinois Chamber of Commerce is joining other business groups in calling for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule soon in a dis...
Graf Tree Care of St. Charles is the company Ottawa Mayor Bob Eschbach wants to help with the city’s tree census. The c...
Gov. Pat Quinn is defending the state's economic climate for business after published comments by Caterpillar's CEO w...
The directors of two Catholic organizations in Illinois say they still have concerns about the provision of free contraceptio...
Steve Rotchford has done a lot of physical labor as a construction scrap contractor for two decades. He says it won’t b...
The Illinois Department of Employment Security says it will garnish the state tax returns of people who wrongfully collected ...
Workers from the state's largest union aren't giving up on getting their promised pay raises. Governor Quinn froze th...
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and the chief executive of Chrysler have announced that the automaker will add more than 1,800 jobs b...
State Republicans say Gov. Pat Quinn's State of the State address was unrealistic and fails to address major issues like ...
Gov. Pat Quinn says Illinois is a better place to do business today, despite frequent complaints about taxes, regulation and ...
Gov. Pat Quinn is saying more plainly than ever that he wants Illinois schools to share the burden of teacher pensions. In a ...
Gov. Pat Quinn's response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address Tuesday night:“We in Illinois ...
Cong. Don Manzullo (R-Egan) issued the following statement after President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address. Man...
It’s taken nearly 15 months, but the merger between Ottawa Regional Hospital and Healthcare Center and OSF HealthCare S...
A new Illinois House committee is being created to look into the way state retirement systems invest their money. House Speak...
Illinois businesses have qualified for $67 million in tax credits by hiring military veterans, people on food stamps and ...
Illinois' money woes have helped it top yet another list.TopRetirements.com ranks the Land of Lincoln as the second worst sta...
Illinois' lieutenant governor is urging residents to use the state's jobs database to find new jobs. In a press release issue...
State Treasurer Dan Rutherford says Illinois is going to pay an additional 60-million dollars in interest on bonds thanks to ...
Illinois House Republican Leader Tom Cross wants lawmakers to examine a new investment strategy by the state's teachers' pens...
The state’s monthly unemployment report shows local rates going down again for the most part. LaSalle County’s ra...
Ottawa City Commissioner Ed Whitney will be the only City Council member not on the labor negotiating committee when City Hal...
A published report says dozens of employees of private education groups and Special Olympics Illinois are eligible for public...
The state’s jobs outlook is getting better. Greg Rivara with the Illinois Department of Employment Security say the une...
Governor Quinn says he's looking forward to getting the tax bill lawmakers passed earlier this week. He says he'll sign the p...
State Representative Pam Roth voted for the Sears and Chicago Mercantile Exchange tax break package in the Illinois House Mon...
Gov. Pat Quinn is lobbying the Illinois congressional delegation to approve a payroll tax cut and an extension of unemploymen...
The first rides are being offered under the fledgling LaSalle County public transit system. Ottawa Mayor Bob Eschbach says p...
Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich likely won't collect a $65,000-a-year state pension, but he's expected to receive a ...
Unemployment edges up again in most of the local area. LaSalle County’s September rate was 10.8%. In October it climbed...
Illinois' skyrocketing pension costs will go up even more than expected next year. The Chicago Tribune reports that retiremen...
The City of Marseilles is buying the Labors Local 393 union hall. Health and Safety Commissioner Jim Hollenbeck says the hall...
Lawmakers are considering two proposals that will cap wage increases for union workers.The idea is that everyone has to sacri...
Legislation approved yesterday is supposed to save hundreds of millions of dollars for Illinois businesses and government. Th...
The Illinois Senate voted to revoke the pensions of two union lobbyists who qualified for teachers' retirement benefits by sp...
The union representing striking workers at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale has announced the walkout has ended. SI...
Whatever tax code changes are ahead, Congressman Adam Kinzinger thinks biodiesel tax credits will stay. Officials with Renewa...
Within two years, Illinois residents and small businesses are supposed to be able to visit a state website to comparison shop...
Some things the legislature is likely to deal with in the veto session aren’t getting much attention in the news media....
Ottawa’s Public Action to Deliver Shelter is launching a new program to help the homeless find jobs. PADS Executive Dir...
The federal government wants some unemployment insurance money back from the state of Illinois. State Representative Frank Ma...
An Ottawa man is expecting 30 to 40 percent of the people he works with to retire in the next five years. Ron Dettman says ma...
Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. is paying $2.25 million to settle federal allegations of sex discrimination. The Labor Department ...
LaSalle County Nursing Home Administrator Chris Csernus was rehired Monday night. Csernus was hired last August and his term ...
Caterpillar says it wants to hire but can't find enough qualified workers. That's according to the CEO, who says it's hurting...
A veterans assistance program put on by the state of Illinois will visit Ottawa Tuesday afternoon, September 13. From 2pm to ...
Ottawa City Hall is getting ready to put together its next set of lists of people eligible to work for the city. The applicat...
The Ottawa Civil Service Commission Thursday approved the next set of tests for employment eligibility testing. Those tests w...
The local unemployed numbered about one in nine people who wanted work in July according to the Illinois Department of Employ...
Full time employees at Illinois Valley Community College are entering a three year labor contract. The college board of trust...
At a Marseilles City Council meeting Wednesday night, they passed an $8 million dollar budget. Finance Commissioner Bob D...
Spring Valley Democrat Frank Mautino says building the new Community Technology Center at IVCC will allow students to get the...
Local unemployment went down four months in a row since the start of the year. From May to June it went up again. The Illinoi...
Like in similar scenes at more than 70 spots around Illinois Tuesday, the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal...
A local lawmaker says the governor shouldn’t blame the General Assembly for not giving him enough money to pay employee...
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees employees protesting the blocking of pay raises will picket at ...
Work on a mini-plaza for the long awaited Radium Girl statue in Ottawa is underway with a small construction area taped off o...
Senator Shane Cultra was one of only eight Senators to vote against the legislature signed into law by Governor Quinn Tuesday...
The Illinois Department of Employment Security reports declining unemployment numbers locally. LaSalle County’s rate ha...
Carus Corporation and two unions have agreed on a six year collective bargaining agreement. Carus, the International Chemical...
There was supposed to be a meeting in Ottawa yesterday for state employees to find out about their group insurance. State Sen...
Labor contracts were approved by the LaSalle County Board for two more sets of county employees. The contracts cover around 3...
While health insurance changes are phased in through 2014, some employers are getting the option of delaying changes. The Ott...
An Urbana insurer is suing the state to block its decision to award health insurance contracts that cover tens of thousands o...
State Representative Frank Mautino says he’d rather reform the current workers compensation system than scrap it. If...
The numbers suggest a big improvement in unemployment rates locally. The Illinois Department of Employment Security says 10.9...
There are new contracts with two LaSalle County employee unions. The sheriff’s deputies contract through the Metropolit...
Things appear to be getting better according to the state’s unemployment figures for the area. The Illinois Department ...
LaSalle County employees can get dental and vision insurance coverage, and it’s not costing taxpayers anything extra. T...
A labor contract for LaSalle County Sheriff’s deputies was on the County Board agenda this week, but it didn’t g...
Signs saying “stop the war on workers” peppered Washington Park in Ottawa on Monday night where labor unions gath...
If you're looking for a job be sure to listen to "The Second Cup" on Monday. Sharon Barthelomy will give us all the...
Construction companies that want to work for Illinois government would have to promise not to move out of state under a propo...
Illinois unemployment dipped below 9% for the first time in two years, falling to 8.9% in February. The Illinois Department o...
A resolution honoring Joanne White took place last night at the LaSalle County Board meeting. White’s family was given ...
With a 15 to seven vote, the LaSalle County Board Monday night approved 2.5% raises for five courthouse security officers. Th...
The 20th annual IVCC Job Fair will be on April 14th this year. The Job fair will take place from 11am-4pm in the school&rsquo...
Unemployment took a big jump up from December to January. The local numbers climbed by at least one point in each county, acc...
State Representative Frank Mautino is calling on the state’s auditor general to conduct an extensive review of workers&...
The president of the state Senate says Illinois should consider taxing the retirement income of some senior citizens. Chicago...
Thousands of workers at Peoria-based Caterpillar have a new, six-year contract after United Auto Workers members voted to rat...
The United Auto Workers says employees of Caterpillar Inc. have approved a new labor agreement. The UAW says a majority of me...
Changing state laws have Ottawa Public Property Commissioner Wayne Eichelkraut thinking the city needs a specialist to keep t...
The United Auto Workers say the union has reached a tentative labor agreement with Caterpillar Inc., averting a possible walk...
A top Illinois lawmaker is calling for an audit of the state's questioned workers' compensation program as it applies to stat...
The LaSalle County Board is very interested in getting an early start on renewing its self-insurance. That’s the arrang...
The meal provider for the LaSalle County Nursing Home will change soon. The County Board Thursday accepted a $440,000 a year ...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor says unemployment is down to 9% nationwide, the lowest in almost two years. Some people don’t ...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor says unemployment is down to 9% nationwide, the lowest in almost two years. Some people don’t ...
State employees who were directed to avoid traveling to work yesterday, should report to work today.Governor Quinn urges work...
LaSalle County’s unemployment rate dropped just a little from November to December. The Illinois Department of Employme...
Members of the Illinois Taxpayers Education Foundation or ITEF spoke in Ottawa on Tuesday.The focus on the meeting was to bri...
U.S. House Republicans, including Adam Kinzinger, voted Wednesday to repeal last year’s health care reform law. Kinzing...
A bill that would limit the collective bargaining capability of some state workers by designating them as managers passed the...
During the next three-and-a-half months, a Mendota sculptor will work on the radium girls statue that’s been the motiva...
Unemployment is up a little in LaSalle County. The Illinois Department of Employment Security says the rate went from 11.6% t...
The LaSalle County Nursing Home has a new Medical Director.The have been without one since the last County Board meeting tha...
Congressman-elect Adam Kinzinger says he’s in favor of the tax cut and unemployment benefit extension bill the Senate i...
Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois says President Obama’s tax deal with Republicans will pass. Durbin, the Majority Whip, ...
Local lawmakers were split on the pension reform bill headed to the governor’s desk. Morris Democrat Careen Gordon vote...
Unemployment numbers didn’t change much for the local area from September to October. The Illinois Department of Employ...
The Marseilles City Council Monday night authorized sending layoff notices to the Fraternal Order of Police and Laborers Loca...
Some Marseilles city employees could be put out of work soon. City Hall has issued a special city council meeting notice for ...
The unemployment rate appears to be improving locally. The Illinois Department of Employment Security says the LaSalle County...
The allure of cheap input prices for things made overseas is bad news for workers at the Honeywell lighting products factory ...
Vice President Joe Biden took center stage at a union hall in Chicago Tuesday to tell people to vote for Democrat Pat Quinn f...
Local unemployment numbers improved from July to August. The LaSalle County rate went from 13.3% to 12.5%. Bureau County&rsq...
Water will be shut off in Seneca at South Main to Hossack, West Union to Hossack and West Union to Armstrong Street starti...
People left the unemployment office at Ottawa’s Southtowne Mall Thursday morning when they smelled gas. The fire depart...
After Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet closes in 2012, local veterans could go there for Veterans Administration hospital ser...
