A Lansing man will appear Thursday for a detention hearing after a domestic dispute in which Oglesby police seized a pistol that had been rendered into a machine gun.






Illinois Valley Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual State of the Cities luncheon on Wednesday at Grand Bear Resort at Starved Rock in Utica. Mayors from Peru, La Salle, Ottawa, Oglesby, Utica Spring Valley and Streator spoke to more than 200 people on the local, social and economic climate along in their communities.