The Benton County community of Earl Park is hosting their Labor Day weekend tradition. The 45th annual Earl Park Fall Festival began Friday. The four-day festival draws thousands of people in from all over the Midwest. Activities...
The federal Surface Transportation Board has rejected Great Lakes Basin Transportation's application to build and operate a 261-mile freight railroad from LaPorte County to southeast Wisconsin.
The application called for a rural...
MILFORD – It’s been a process, quite a process over the last several months and years. Now, Milford is ready to occupy its new school building.
While most area students and staff have been in class the last week or two, the...
Compromise legislation includes equitable funding for districts, more school choice for families
Flanked by school children and legislative leaders, Gov. Bruce Rauner today signed historic school funding legislation that puts...
The Farm Progress Show wraps up today in Decatur. Thousands of people from across the world gathered outside of the city to check out the latest agribusiness technology at the nation's largest outdoor farm event. This was the...
A Mount Ayr man was rescued from a grain bin (Wed) on the West end of Rensselaer Street in Mount Ayr. The victim had been trapped in the grain bin for approximately forty minutes prior to 911 being called as bystanders attempted...
A Danforth driver was treated for a minor injury (Wednesday) in Iroquois County when his car collided with a tractor trailer on Route 49 at County Road 1170N.
50-year-old James Pratt was driving passenger car pulling a...
After almost a year of fighting over school funding, Governor Bruce Rauner isn't even waiting two days to sign the state's new school funding agreement into law. The governor will put his signature on the plan to create a new...
A 27-year-old St. Anne woman faces several traffic charges, including DUI, after a crash Tuesday between her car and a school bus. Briana Bobrokowski crossed the centerline of Illinois Route 1 in Kankakee County, hitting...
Springfield – A historic bipartisan agreement to replace the state's broken school funding formula with a more fair and equitable evidence-based model has now passed both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly, according to...
