Editing Streator, Illinois (section)

===Media===
Streator has one daily newspaper, ''The Times''. The daily paper, published by the Small Newspaper Group Inc., in nearby [[Ottawa, Illinois|Ottawa]], provides the local news for the [[Ottawa, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area]].  Streator's original daily, ''The Times-Press News'' merged with the ''Ottawa Daily Times'' in 2005.<ref name="times">{{Cite web |title=The Times, About us |url=http://mywebtimes.com/contacts.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120711015226/http://mywebtimes.com/contacts.php |archive-date=July 11, 2012 |access-date=2008-11-12 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>  Television broadcasts are provided by stations in nearby [[Bloomington, Illinois|Bloomington]] and [[Peoria, Illinois|Peoria]].  Local cable providers also air Chicago stations.  Streator has three local radio stations: [[WSPL]] 1250&nbsp;AM, which has a [[Talk radio|news/talk]] format, [[WSTQ (FM)|WSTQ]] 97.7&nbsp;FM, which has a [[contemporary hit radio|contemporary pop]] format and [[WYYS]] 106.1&nbsp;FM, which broadcasts a [[classic hits]] format. The three stations are owned by the Mendota Broadcast Group, Inc. One of the longest-running programs on WSPL was "Polka Party", which was broadcast live on Saturday mornings for more than thirty years until its host Edward Nowotarski retired in 2001.<ref>Staff writer (2004-01-20). "Cousin Ed remembered for music." [http://mywebtimes.com/archives/ottawa/print_display.php?id=250535] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719180705/http://mywebtimes.com/archives/ottawa/print_display.php?id=250535|date=July 19, 2011}} ''The Times'' of Ottawa, Illinois. Retrieved 2012-05-22.</ref>