Category Archives: Local News

SPRINGFIELD - Barack Obama's path to the White House included the beaches of Hawaii, the streets of Chicago, the classrooms of Harvard and the halls of the Illinois statehouse. Historian David J. Garr...

SIU Looks To Layoff Workers At Closing Dorms (Carbondale, IL) -- If there isn't a dorm, there's no need to have people working in the dorm. That's the logic behind Southern Illinois University's plann...

Illinois Looking To Recruit Local Election Judges (Springfield, IL) -- The November election is just six months away, and the Illinois State Board of Elections is getting ready now. The state board is...

Durbin Holds Out Hope Of Federal Money For Quincy Home (Quincy, IL) -- Illinois' senior U.S. senator says the federal government will pay for most of the cost to build a new veterans home in Quincy. B...

Progressive Tax Supporters: Cut For Most, Billions More For Illinois (Chicago, IL) -- Supporters of a progressive income tax in Illinois say almost all taxpayers in the state will see a tax cut and th...

The Charleston Carnegie Public Library will be holding a teen craftivity event on Tuesday, May 8th from 5:00-6:00pm in the Zone. Middle School and High School students are invited to make a watercolor...

Applications are being accepted for the 2018 Miss and Little Miss Coles County. And new this year, they've added a junior miss category. Little Miss is open to 5-8-year-olds; Junior Miss, 11-13- year-...

Monday, April 30th and tonight kicking off the week area Baseball and Softball games, as well as a couple Soccer matches. Follow along with area final scores below... High School Baseball: FINAL: Arge...

Christopher Perry, 30, of Greenup, IL was transported to Carle Foundation Hospital the afternoon of Monday, April 30th after a motorcycle crash along I-70, eastbound, at milepost 131. Preliminary deta...

Springfield, IL - One of the music industry's premier entertainers is headed to the Illinois State Fair this summer. Grammy award winning recording artist, songwriter, actor, and philanthropist Ludacr...