Category Archives: Local News

Wisconsin Launching Ads To Lure Chicago Millennials (Chicago, IL) -- If you ride the train in Chicago, don't be surprised if you see ads touting how great the state of Wisconsin is. Illinois' neighbor...

Illinois Lawmakers Demand Fix For Quincy Legionnaires' Outbreaks (Chicago, IL) -- Illinois lawmakers are demanding that Governor Rauner do what it takes to end the Legionnaires' disease outbreaks at t...

A Mattoon woman was banned from Williams Elementary School following an incident yesterday. According to the Mattoon Police Department, Dyanna Lucas was yelling and cursing at staff members while pick...

The National Weather Service has issued a Dense Fog Advisory for our entire Illinois listening area. It includes all of these Illinois counties: Knox-Stark-Peoria-Marshall-Woodford-Fulton-Tazewell-McL...

Monday, January 15th is Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service at Douglas-Hart Nature Center in Mattoon. The projects will be indoors, so no worries about getting cold. From 10:00 a.m. to noon they'll ...

Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center will be sponsoring a "Take Down Heart Disease" men's event on Thursday, February 22nd from 6 to 8 pm. The event will take place at the Brick House Bar & Grill in C...

Charleston Carnegie Public Library's monthly Lego My Library will be on Wednesday, January 17th, at 4:00-5:15pm in Rotary Room A. This free event is for children who are in grades K-8. Those children ...

(Undated) -- Medical experts are bracing for what may be the worst flu season in history. This year's main flu strain, known as the influenza A virus, is coming in worse than the swine flu of 2009 tha...

Tuesday, January 9th a traffic crash occurred along Route 40, a quarter mile east of Fayette County Road 1550, (just west of Vandalia) during the afternoon. According to preliminary details from Illin...

The National Weather Service has issued a Dense Fog Advisory for Fayette County (and all the way to St. Louis, if you're traveling) from 9pm tonight (January 9) to 10am on Wednesday (January 10) The D...