ROODHOUSE The Illinois Department of Transportation today announced that rehabilitation of a crossing by Kansas City Southern ...

Cities in at least two states have broken daily high temperature records this week as temperatures soar across the central and eastern U.S. The high heat follows a cold front that lasted several days ...

Although the remnants of Hurricane Francine may provide some relief over the next several days, drought conditions in ...

Multiple local fire crews responded to a commercial structure fire near 706 Smith St. in Mackinaw on Monday. According to ...

Hurricane Francine is still churning in the Gulf of Mexico after being upgraded from a tropical storm on Tuesday night, and ...

A once proudly Republican state, Illinois is now solidly blue as Chicago’s “collar counties” move to the left.

which will also take center stage later this month when a federal judge representing southern Illinois hears arguments over the constitutionality of the state’s ban on so-called assault weapons.

An accompanying map illustrated the spread of the heat wave over a large cluster of midwestern states, with Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois ... the major northeast cities will have a heat ...

Disaster assistance for producers and training new staff has been among the many focuses of the Farm Service Agency’s ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! An introduction to the 1860 election is featured. Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about the issue of slavery at the time, the ...

Based on 2020 U.S. Census Bureau data, around 41% of Illinois’ population lives in Cook County. More than 2 million of the county’s residents live in Chicago, the third largest city in the nation.