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The Illinois Republican Party is asking the attorney general’s office to oversee the Champaign County clerk’s efforts to correct mislabeled ballots that were sent to hundreds of voters.

Illinois is facing a diesel-fuel price disaster, according to Gov. JB Pritzker. He’s directed state agencies not to penalize the use of tax-exempt red-dyed diesel on roads. While he calls it a cost-saving measure, the leader of the Illinois Fuel and Retail Association says more clarity is needed.

Republican Darren Bailey believes his odds of beating Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker are better than his 2022 campaign. Bailey has tried to revamp his image with voters by embracing Chicago and the suburbs, even though he still remains a conservative from southern Illinois.

The city council on Tuesday night weighs a decision to add 10 more cameras to the 15 it already has. Opponents from Central Illinois anti-Flock groups hope to press council members by demonstrating in Levee Park before the meeting. The village of Creve Coeur has its own decisions to make.

A DeSoto man charged with bludgeoning an 8-year-old to death pleaded guilty on Monday to one count of murder with an enhancement for a killing that was “exceptionally brutal” and involved “wanton cruelty.”

Jonathan Ross, a native of Greater Peoria, is named among several Trump administration officials in a civil lawsuit alleging the ICE agent is responsible for carrying out a conspiracy to unlawfully target ethnic communities and their allies.

This summer, scammers convinced a 78-year-old Marion woman that her Edward Jones Investment accounts had been compromised, and that she needed to buy more than $800,000 in gold bars and give it to a purported federal agent for safekeeping.

Hundreds of people gathered along the riverfront Monday morning to watch the 80-year-old Chester Bridge come down.

After 50 years in broadcasting on radio and television, Chuck Collins retired in late 2025. But the former WMBD and WEEK meteorologist is still busy, including teaching this October at Bradley University's Osher Life Long Learning Institute.

Prosecutor Sheri Mecklenburg who has been accused of misconduct over a failed attempt to bring felony charges against six protesters of the federal immigration crackdown in Chicago has resigned.