Category Archives: Local News

Doctors Remind People To Protect Eyes During Eclipse (Springfield, IL) -- Doctors are warning people to protect their eyes during Monday's solar eclipse. They want everyone to know that it's important...

Champaign School Bus Crash Under Investigation (Champaign, IL) -- A school bus crash in Champaign is under investigation. Officials say there were 13 elementary students on the bus yesterday afternoon...

Police Investigating "Incident" At Illinois Train Station (Naperville, IL) -- No one is hurt following a "suspicious incident" at a commuter train station in Naperville, Illinois. A small explosion wa...

Bonnie Tyler To Sing "Total Eclipse" During Total Eclipse (Undated) -- Pop singer Bonnie Tyler is going to welcome the solar eclipse with a rendition of her 1983 hit "Total Eclipse of the Heart." The ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum will celebrate America's pastime August 19th with an All-American Picnic featuring baseball-themed crafts, demonstrations of the game as it was play...

The Kiwanis Club of Mattoon will be holding a Park Project Cash Raffle, with the drawing of the winner taking place on Wednesday, August 30th. Tickets are $20 dollars each and cash prizes range from $...

Spanky's Bar and Grill will host a fundraiser for Kolby's Helping Paw August 19th. Bake sale begins at 8am, and from 11 to 6, they'll have prizes, a 50/50, raffles, food, music and you can buy a speci...

(Washington, DC) -- The Trump administration is killing a program that allowed children escaping violence in Central America to settle in the U.S. The Department of Homeland Security published a notic...

Tomorrow, Thursday, August 17th, celebrate in Savoy for the 60th Annual Agronomy Day, hosted by the Department of Crop Sciences and the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at ...

(Chicago, IL) -- Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is setting a meeting for next Wednesday when there could be a vote to override Governor Rauner's changes to the school funding bill known as SB-...