When: Lampeter-Strasburg school board meeting, May 19. What happened: The board discussed potential renovations to Hans Herr Elementary School. Background: In 2020, Crabtree, Rohrbaugh ...

Illinois Senators have approved a proposal that would ban the sale of restaurant reservations by third parties (the black market). The bill, which was passed by the House in April, now awaits ...

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency declared an Air Pollution Action Day today in the Chicago Metropolitan area due to elevated particle pollution caused by Canadian wildfire smoke.

As Illinois faces a growing political divide over the issue of trans athletes in girls' sports, the state's lawmakers addressed the topic in a heated back-and-forth on the floor of the state ...

"There's really only a few thousand acres of tallgrass prairie like this left in Illinois," said research scientist Elizabeth Bach. But when Bach rolls over rolling hills of the Nachusa Grasslands ...

The best spellers in the country are in Washington, D.C. for the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee, including 13 contestants from Illinois and more than half a dozen from the Chicago area.

MATTOON — Former U.S. Rep. Glenn Poshard will be in Central Illinois on Thursday, Aug. 3, signing and promoting his new biography. “Son of Southern Illinois: Glenn Poshard’s Life in Politics ...

Night - Scattered showers with a 64% chance of precipitation. Winds from SSW to SW. The overnight low will be 68 °F (20 °C). Mostly cloudy with a high of 85 °F (29.4 °C) and a 51% chance of ...

Now's the time to find some outdoor entertainment. Luckily for Illinois residents, this summer is packed with more than 100 back-to-back county fairs, from Peoria to Springfield to Bloomington ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois republican lawmakers have asked the state’s Supreme Court to throw out the current legislative map that they claim favors Democrats in elections.

Firefighters responded to a two-alarm barn fire in Strasburg, Lancaster County, on Wednesday morning around 11:30 a.m. The Strasburg fire department was working to put out the fire Wednesday ...