ALORTON, Ill. (AP) — A special prosecutor has dropped felony charges against a southern Illinois mayor accused of operating a police vehicle with its...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A plant pathogen that causes an invasive tree-killing disease has been found in Illinois. The Illinois Department of Agriculture says...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be the keynote speaker at the annual Illinois Democratic County Chairs’ Association brunch Aug....

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Illinois state climate scientists say June was rainy in the state with lower temperatures than average. The Illinois State Climatologist...

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — The same federal jury that last month convicted a former University of Illinois doctoral student of kidnapping and torturing a...

A band has been removed from the Du Quoin State Fair lineup. Confederate Railroad will no longer perform on Aug. 27 with Shenandoah and...

A state senator says he plans to continue his push to regulate vaping products in Illinois. Illinois recently increased the purchase age of vaping...

Recovery efforts on six barges that were sucked into the Len Small Levee breach in Alexander County continue. An official with the U.S. Coast...

A Williamson County Grand Jury has indicted two people in the 2017 death of an 11-month-old Johnston City boy. 19-year-old Jesse R. Martin of...

Our nation’s heroes were honored during a renaming ceremony for Crainville’s Illinois 13 overpass. The newly-named Veterans Memorial Overpass was unveiled for an audience...