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The show is a go in Peru · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: The show is a go in Peru. Written by Tom Collins.
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  This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlett. Peru City workers that descended on
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  the banks of the Illinois River with a question will
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  the city be able to hold its Independence Day fireworks?
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  The answer, Mayor Ken Kolowski said Monday is yes. We've
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  got a lot of work to do, Kolowski said, but
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  it's going to be a go. Recent flooding had raised
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  the question of whether conditions would be conducive to launching
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  fireworks in Peru. The matter wasn't decided until eight a m. Monday,
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  when workers assessed the launch site and said go, albeit
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  with significant work to be done in the next few days.
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  Kolowski said workers will have to scrape away mud and
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  put down rock and do it all amid sweltering temperatures
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  to clear the launch site. Mother Nature typically had the
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  last word. Kolowski considered the forecast, and while rain is
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  forecasts Friday morning, he's convinced that any incoming rain won't
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  be enough to reverse river levels presently in descent. Workers
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  will have to be cautious. However, a heat advisory is
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  in effect starting at noon Monday and extending well into
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  midweek daytime, temperatures will creep into the nineties, peaking at
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  ninety four degrees on Tuesday, with humidity that will push
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  the fields like temperature north of one hundred. Kolowski urged
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  residents to check on their at risk neighbors and their pets,
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  as well as to watch for the opening of cooling
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  centers later today.