A very warm day ahead in the upper 70s and low 80s. Warm temperatures hang around through the weekend.

Mt. Vernon guard and Purdue commit Luke Ertel named Gatorade Player of Year for Indiana. Ertel has Marauders in Class 4A semistate.

A prescribed burn is planned near the Lake Decatur dam for Friday. The City of Decatur announced a prescribed burn for March ...

One person was hurt in a morning shooting in Decatur on Friday. Decatur Police told us that they responded to reports of ...

Judge was told defendant Kerion Overstreet was mentally ill when he assaulted female shopper in the frozen food aisle.

The Chicago Bears prioritized speed and athleticism on defense. Here’s what else stood out about their free-agent additions.

The civil trial in San Francisco centered on a class-action lawsuit filed just before Musk took control of Twitter, which he renamed X.

An 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student was shot and killed overnight in the Rogers Park neighborhood, Chicago ...

Three teenagers in Tennessee have sued Elon Musk’s xAI, claiming the company’s image-generation tools were used to morph real ...

The U.S. Education Department is handing off a portion of its student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department.

Kat Abughazaleh, who is running to replace Representative Jan Schakowsky in Illinois’s Ninth District, cast her ballot at a ...

From symbols of liberty to nods to Abraham Lincoln, Illinois students shared creative reflections on America’s 250th in a statewide art contest.