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Emergency Crews busy with Iroquois County Train Derailment

Illinois Department of Transportation (I-DOT) crews and Crecent-Iroquois firemen are monitoring traffic in dealing with an overturned semi tanker along U-S Route 24.

A single tank car on an eastbound T.P. & W. freight train is on its side between County Roads 1600 E and 1800 E. The derailed car, which the railroad reported was [...]

Flood Advisory: “Turn Around, Don’t Drown”

Areal Flood Advisory Statement as of 10:10 AM June 20, 2011

…Urban and Small Stream Flood Advisory remains in effect for eastern Ford…Grundy…southwestern will…northern Livingston…La Salle…Iroquois…southern Kendall andKankakee counties until 1230 PM CDT…

At 1005 am CDT…National Weather Service Doppler radar estimated up to 3.25 inches of rain has fallen across parts of La Salle [...]

Weather Warning Cancelled

Severe Thunderstorm Warning Statement as of 7:24 AM June 20, 2011

…The Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Southern Lake…Newton and southeastern Iroquois counties is cancelled…

The line of storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the warned area.

Motorists should be aware of the possibility of Flash Flooding…up to 1.5 inches of rain has [...]

SEVERE T-STORM WARNING for IROQUOIS COUNTY

BULLETIN – SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FROM THE NATL WEATHER SVC CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL

646 AM MON JUN 20 2011

THE NATL WEATHER SVC IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN IROQUOIS COUNTY… EASTERN KANKAKEE COUNTY…WILL COUNTY…BENTON COUNTY, IN…. JASPER COUNTY, IN….LAKE COUNTY, in…NEWTON COUNTY, in….PORTER COUNTY, in…* UNTIL 745 AM

NATL WEATHER [...]

Government Offices Double as Cooling Centers >

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — People who need to escape the heat blanketing Illinois can visit more than 120 government offices across the state.

Cooling centers are being opened at all Department of Human Services offices. In Iroquois County, churches, village halls are also available for citizens to seek relief. Most cooling centers are open during [...]