Officials are assessing damage this week after a tornado ripped through Neoga elementary and junior high schools just after ...

A Flora resident was injured in a three-vehicle accident March 15 at the intersection of Route 45 and 1425th Street in Union Township, according to the Effingham County Sheriff's Office.

In the years since the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily shut down Illinois casinos, video gambling terminals, horse racing and ...

John Petruszak opened his email Feb. 27 to find a message he called “shocking”: the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development had rescinded two grants it had ...

Gov. JB Pritzker delivered more harsh criticism against President Donald Trump’s administration over attempts to drastically ...

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Kaden A. Phillips, 18, of rural St. Peter, has pleaded guilty in Fayette County to involuntary manslaughter and aggravated discharge of a firearm in the death of a 14-year-old last ...

For local farmer Ben Stumpf, the steady stream of income from a new federal grant allowed him to quit his second job working nights for UPS in Belleville and focus ...

The Illini earned the No. 6 seed in the Midwest Region and will play their first-round game at 8:45 p.m. Friday in Milwaukee. That means Illini fans can drive to ...