Category Archives: Local News

For Immediate Release - Press Release Public Health Officials Announce First Coronavirus Disease Cases Outside Chicago and Cook County CHICAGO - The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), Kane C...

For Immediate Release Lake Land College Trustees Honor Dr. Leland McNeill The Lake Land College Board of Trustees honored Dr. Leland McNeill, Charleston, with the Clem G. Phipps Exemplary Trustee Awar...

U Of I Students Approve New Mascot (Champaign, IL) -- University of Illinois students think the school should adopt the Belted Kingfisher as its mascot. Students voted last week on the non-binding ref...

Police Impersonator Being Investigated (Tolono, IL) -- A report of a man impersonating a police officer is being investigated by the Champaign County Sheriff's office. The sheriff's office says the ma...

For Immediate Release Pritzker Administration Announces $80 Million in Competitive Grants to Support Economic Development Governor JB Pritzker and the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (...

Red Cross urges healthy individuals to give blood amid coronavirus concerns ST. LOUIS, Mo. (March 10, 2020) - The American Red Cross strongly urges healthy, eligible individuals who are feeling well t...

For Immediate Release Illinois Spring Trout Fishing Season Opens April 4 SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The 2020 Illinois Spring Trout Fishing Season will open Saturday, April 4 at 56 ponds, lakes and streams th...

For Immediate Release EIU Comic Con to include escape room, cosplay, trivia contest, more CHARLESTON -- The first EIU Comic Con is planned at Booth Library on the campus of Eastern Illinois University...

Amtrak: Woman Who May Have Coronavirus Traveled Through Bloomington-Normal (Normal, IL) -- Amtrak officials say a woman who may have tested positive for the coronavirus traveled through Bloomington-No...

SMA Testing At Birth On Track To Start This Summer (Springfield, IL) -- Testing at birth for a rare genetic disease is set to begin this summer. Hospitals will begin testing for spinal muscular atroph...