One person is dead after being "consumed by fire and molten metal" Thursday at Caterpillar's Mapleton foundry. Peoria County Sheriff's Office deputies responded at about 5 p.m. to the plant on U.S.

Shirley June Cotton, 87, of Mapleton, IL, went home to be with her Lord on August 9, 2025, at Richard L. Owens OSF Hospice Home of Peoria. Shirley was born on December 15,1937, in Spring Lake, ...

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