An accomplice to last month’s jail break in White County has been sentenced to four years behind bars. 28-year-old Carly Schmitter pleaded guilty to...

The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois has announced his resignation. Donald Boyce’s last day on the job will be Saturday...

  A member of the Rend Lake College Board of Trustees has stepped down. Eric Black had been on the board for seven years....

A Chicago lawmaker has been named interim executive director of the Democratic Party of Illinois. Representative Christian Mitchell will replace Tim Mapes, who stepped...

  A De Soto man has pleaded guilty to murder. 52-year-old James Deese was accused of murdering 76-year-old Frank Stonemark, also of De Soto,...

A Chicago suburb will consider raising the minimum age to buy tobacco and nicotine products following a letter from a 9-year-old requesting the mayor...

Milk giant Dean Foods is closing one of its Illinois facilities this year. A Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act letter sent by the...

The Marion City Council has voted to place a lien on the struggling Star Centre Mall. The mall owners have filed for bankruptcy which...

Christopher’s Brian Pheasant has requested a new trial. He was convicted in May of two counts of first degree murder in the death of...