Category Archives: Local News

For Immediate Release - February 25, 2022 Illinois Indoor Masking Requirement to End Monday, February 28, 2022 SPRINGFIELD - Due to the continued decrease in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, and i...

For Immediate Release - February 25, 2022 Lt. Governor Stratton's Statement on the Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson Chicago - Today, Ketanji Brown Jackson made history as the first Black woman nomi...

For Immediate Release - February 25, 2022 Embarras River Basin Agency, Inc. (ERBA) is accepting applications for our Skills Training Employment Program (STEP) to assist individuals with training for e...

For Immediate Release - February 25, 2022 Illinois DCFS offers college scholarships to current and former youth in care CHICAGO - The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is currently a...

For Immediate Release - February 25, 2022 Deer hunting seasons conclude with hunters in Illinois taking preliminary total of 147,004 deer SPRINGFIELD - Hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary tota...

UPDATE (9:30 p.m.): In order to remove the Semi northbound on I-57 at Milepost 220 ISP is diverting traffic on I-57 North at Exit 212.   According to Illinois State Police, a truck tractor/semi c...

For Immediate Release - Press Release - February 24, 2022 Illinois State Police Arrest Neoga Man for Aggravated Battery of a Child Neoga, IL - On February 24, 2022, Illinois State Police (ISP) Divisio...

Champaign Man Charged In Shooting That Wounded 10yo Boy (Champaign, IL) -- A Champaign man is charged in a shooting that seriously wounded a 10-year-old boy in 2019. Devlon Miles faces multiple charge...

School Mask Ruling Appealed To Illinois Supreme Court (Chicago, IL) -- Governor Pritzker is appealing a recent ruling on masks in schools to the Illinois Supreme Court. He says that the state needs cl...

For Immediate Release - February 24, 2022 Gov. Pritzker Announces Inaugural Cohort of Accelerate Illinois Broadband Infrastructure Program SPRINGFIELD - Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Departmen...