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In their interviews with authorities, Cynthia Baker’s children described a home where Baker punched, whipped and tortured 8-year-old Rica Rountree,...

Governor J.B. Pritzker says the federal and state governments are working to blunt the blow of a two-week bar and restaurant closure as much as possible.…

Neil Simon’s play, “Lost in Yonkers” uses the playwright’s sharp humor to underscore a turbulent moment in the life of one American family. Douglas Okey…

Bartonville schools have been in the news a lot this week, after a series of school threats both substantiated and perceived.

Active COVID-19 cases in the Tri-County increased by 420 in the last seven days, more than tripling the caseload over the past four weeks.

An extended run of hot temperatures and high humidity is forecast to arrive across Central Illinois on Sunday and last through most of the week.

Steve Spain, the owner and operator of the Costume Trunk, opened the Trunk’s first storefront in 1981 at 710 W. Main St.

Author Marc C. Johnson, a former broadcast journalist and aide to former Gov. Cecil Andrus, D-Idaho, said the relationship between Mansfield, a Democrat from Montana; and Dirksen, a Republican senator from Illinois, was unique in modern American politics.

The Pekin Police Department wants to make sure people are stopping for school buses pickup and delivering children. The police department is reminding…

The state unemployment rate dropped slightly in January compared to the month before. The Department of Employment Security says the jobless rate…