The Big Muddy River in southern Illinois is expected to crest this week. River levels in the Heartland According to the ...

Some Jackson County roads are still closed due to flooding. Several county officials compiled a road closure map in a joint effort to help with detours ...

The Waukegan River and Ravine Cleanup, fueled by the church’s 53 volunteers Saturday at three different parks with access to ...

DIXON, Ill. (WTVO) — The City of Dixon has begun construction of a $14 million bike and pedestrian bridge over the Rock River. The new bridge is made possible by an $11.9 million federal Rebuilding ...

PETERSBURG, Ill. (AP) — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and ...

The seats are "at-large" and are for four-year terms There is a bill in the Illinois House of Representatives ... Pulaski, Pawnee, Riverton, Rochester, Sangamon Valley and Williamsville.

Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking. Lincoln had been hired by a man named Denton Offutt to deliver the boat cargo to ...

(WICS) — The Sangamon County Coroner, Jim Allmon, confirmed the identity of the 61-year-old man recovered from the Sangamon River on March 17, 2025, as Christopher Roberts of Springfield. RELATED: Man ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- There was a new development Thursday in the Sonya Massey case. A judge will hear arguments to move the murder trial of a former sheriff's deputy to a different county.

Alexsus Nellum, 24, of Peoria Heights has been identified as the woman found dead in the Illinois River on Monday, according to Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood. Nellum was found dead in the ...

PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. (WMBD) — A woman who was found dead in the Illinois River earlier this week has been identified. The Illinois State Police Crime Lab was able to identify the woman as 24-year ...