Category Archives: Local News

The Lake Land College Agriculture Division recently received the Outstanding Postsecondary Agriculture Program Award from the National Association of Agricultural Educators (NAAE). The award is meant ...

Culvert work has forced the closure of a portion of E Street in Charleston. Township officials say the closure affects the area from just north of Ne-Co Fields to County Highway 18. The work should be...

A Newnan, Georgia man was killed in an early morning accident south of Neoga. According to the Illinois State Police, a tractor-trailer driven by 41-year-old James McMorris, of Zachary, Louisiana stru...

Doctors Dominate Testimony In SIU Student's Murder Case (Murphysboro, IL) -- The cold killed Pravin Varughese, but prosecutors in his murder trial want to know how much damage a fight that Varughese g...

Poor People's Protestors Push For Minimum Wage In Springfield (Springfield, IL) -- The Poor People's Campaign say they'd be a lot less poor if they made 15 dollars-an-hour. About 100 people rallied ou...

Harness racing scheduled for today (Tuesday, June 12) at the Martinsville Ag Fair has been canceled. Officials will make a decision on the truck and tractor pulls later today.

UPDATED: 9:50am, Tuesday, June 12: Due to storms in the area, please disregard the 2:00-3:00 p.m. torch arrival today. Weather looks great for 8:00 a.m. start in Effingham tomorrow!   The Annual ...

WIU Leaders Fear 50-Percent Enrollment Drop By 2022 (Macomb, IL) -- Western Illinois University could see its enrollment cut in half over the next six years. "The Quad City Times" reported yesterday t...

Chicago's Mayor Looks At Tiny Homes As Homeless Solution (Chicago, IL) -- Chicago may be the next big city to embrace tiny homes. Mayor Rahm Emanuel last week suggested that the same kind of small hom...

Illinois Republican Congressmen Write Trump To Oppose Blagojevich Clemency (Washington, DC) -- Illinois' Republican congressmen don't want to see Rod Blagojevich released from prison early. The state'...