BEACH PARK, Ill. (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team to Illinois to investigate a chemical release from two containers...

FREEPORT, Ill. (AP) — A truck driver accused of reckless homicide in the death of an Illinois State Police trooper allegedly fell asleep multiple...

PEKIN, Ill. (AP) — The father of the man accused of killing four people at a Waffle House in Tennessee last year has pleaded...

MARION, IL. (WJPF) — A Herrin man has been sentenced to ten years in state prison on weapons and drug charges, 23-year-old Dimitri Johnson...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — State public health workers are increasing accessibility to vaccines in response to an outbreak of measles in the U.S. that...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The recently departed legislative inspector general calls the watchdog post “broken.” Julie Porter says in an op-ed in Wednesday’s Chicago...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he has “no concerns at all” about a media report that federal authorities are...

Visitation and services for former Marion Mayor Bob Butler have been announced. Butler died Monday at the age of 92. Butler’s body will lie...

Two area school districts have received grants under the Illinois Department of Transportation’s Safe Routes to School program. Herrin received a little over $89,000...

A deadly crash is under investigation in White County. State Police say it happened late Monday night on Route 141 just east of the...