Category Archives: Local News

Lincoln Pen Sells For 41 Thousand-Dollars (Chicago, IL) -- A pen once used by Abraham Lincoln has a new home for 41 thousand-dollars. A collector bought the pen at an auction in Los Angeles last week....

Southern Illinois School District Looks To Arm Teachers (Ullin, IL) -- A southern Illinois school district could be the first in the state to allow teachers to carry guns into their classrooms. Centur...

Illinois Confirms New Legionnaires Case From Illinois Capitol Complex (Springfield, IL) -- Illinois' latest Legionnaires patient is someone who visited the State Capitol complex in January. The Illino...

U Of I Grad Students Promise Strike Today (Urbana, IL) -- It remains to be seen who'll be in the classrooms at the University of Illinois' main campus. Unionized graduate students last night said they...

Illinois State Police Looking Into McDonough Sheriff's Driving Call (Macomb, IL) -- The Illinois State Police are looking into whether McDonough County's chief deputy helped the county's sheriff get a...

Supreme Court To Hear Illinois Public Union Challenge (Washington, DC) -- The rules could soon be changing for public sector unions across the country. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in an...

The Charleston Carnegie Public Library will be having a button making event in which teens in Middle School and High School can create custom buttons with a limit of 2 per student. This event will be ...

Aerinova will host a fly-in at the Coles County Memorial Airport on March 24 from 8:00 to noon. They'll have lots of activities for kids, along with a discovery flight in a Piper Tomahawk for $20, and...

Lake Land College's Adult Education is offering GED classes throughout the district beginning the first week of March. Classes will be in Arthur, Charleston, Effingham, Marshall, Mattoon, Pana, Paris,...

Nominations are being accepted for the Woman of Achievement Awards. The awards, which will be presented at the annual Women's History and Awareness Month awards ceremony, recognize women who help impr...