As the 2024 presidential election approaches, Illinois appears likely to join most of the rest of the country in requiring ...

Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge will host its 51st-annual Kids Free Fishing Derby on Saturday, June 8. The event is for kids ages 12 and under. Registration begins at 8 a.m., and the first 150 ...

Soon Illinois will be awash in the songs of periodical cicadas. This year is a big year for periodical cicadas in Illinois, where Broods XIII and XIX will be emerging throughout much of the state at ...

Severe weather season made a bold entrance in the Midwest this year and the potential for more dangerous storms lingers. Frequent rains have delayed planting in some areas. Storms have damaged farm ...

Advocates for community-based after-school programs say as many as 40,000 youths statewide could lose access to tutoring services, recreation and other extracurricular activities this summer unless ...

Jordan Elizabeth Drake, 28, passed away on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at her home in Woodstock, Ga. Jordan was born Aug. 23, 1995, in Kissimmee, Fla., at Osceola Regional Hospital to David Arthur Drake ...

Six fallen police officers were honored at an annual memorial service outside the State Capitol last Thursday. The Illinois Police Officers Memorial occurs annually on the first Thursday of May to ...

Colleen, a southern Illinois mother, knew something about her adorable son George was a little different by the time he was about 9 months old. Around his 1st birthday, George’s early interventionist ...

Marian L. Leftwich, 90, of Carbondale passed from Earth into Heaven on Saturday, May 4, 2024. Marian was born April 10, 1934, in Belleville, St. Clair County, Illinois, to Ruben W. J. Kammler and ...

Georgetta Morris, 73, of Elizabethtown died April 30, 2024. She was born Sept. 22, 1950, in Rosiclare. She graduated from Rosiclare High School in 1968. Georgetta married Wendel Dennis Morris and had ...