A new bar, The Detour, is set to open at 328 Third St. in La Salle on Wednesday, April 24, after a transfer of ownership.

Summer Fun Fest will return June 13-16 to Oglesby. The festival announced its musical lineup and schedule for other activities.

The Lighted Way of the Illinois Valley is having its annual spaghetti supper from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday, April 22, at Uptown Grill, 601 First St., La Salle.

This spring, Morgan Phillips and Emily Maze will leave their mark on Illinois Valley Community College in a way neither could have predicted when they were students there.

The Reddick Mansion Association invites students from the area high schools to come to the mansion and use its grounds for their 2024 prom photos. Prom attendees, as well as their families and friends, are welcome.

Marshall Jones, of Kewanee, was honored for his many years on the Freedom House board of directors at the recent gala in Princeton.

A Neil Simon comedy, free YMCA activities, a chocolate festival and "Titanic" on big screen to go along with the opening of the Route 34 Drive-In in Earlville are among the weekend events in the Illinois Valley.

The Methodist churches will host a Red Cross Community Blood Drive from 1 to 6 p.m. Monday, April 22, at Goldasich Hall in the McNabb Fire Department, 391 N. Route 89.

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The Illinois Department of Transportation is working on the Route 251 bridge over the Illinois River in Peru. IDOT work will include washing the bridge and all of the structural steel, top surface of piers and abutments, deck drains and the deck surface. The work will be conducted during the day, with traffic being reduced to one lane and controlled by flaggers. The project is scheduled to wrap up in early May.