Special to WROY/WRUL News By BETH HUNDSDORFER    Capitol News Illinois   [email protected]    For a moment ...

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The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias cut the ribbon Tuesday on a new state-of-the-art facility at 125 W. Monroe St.

WAYNE CITY, Ill. (WSIL) -- A former police chief in one southern Illinois city pleaded guilty to one count of misapplication of property from federally funded programs and one count of interstate ...

Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) accused of assaulting her during an event at the Capitol last year. Mace accused James McIntyre of Illinois, a national foster care advocate, of accosting her during a Dec. 10 ...

A new interactive map might help Cook County drivers avoid road construction and get around the Chicago area faster this summer.

A $12 million renovation project to transform Rockford’s Davis Park will get underway in June 2025, set to conclude in Spring ...

Crews have been working to restore power to many across southern Illinois, southeast Missouri and western Kentucky after the lights went out. Here is a breakdown of power outages throughout the ...

Illinois gained over 32,000 nonfarm jobs on net since before the pandemic. But 73% of them were government jobs. Where the state could use some work is private-sector growth. Some of Illinois ...