Gibson City resident Tom Bennett won easily in the Illinois House race for the 106th district Tuesday. Bennett garnered 21,850 votes to Democrat Bill Nutter's 5,160. The republican Bennett is one of many GOP candidates now...
Voters in Iroquois County gave a vote of trust to current office-holders in Tuesday's election.
County Clerk Lisa Fancher won re-election with 8,740 votes. Sheriff Derek Hagen earned 8,621 votes. Treasurer Mindy Kuntz Hagan had...
Area county clerks are reporting 50% and greater voter turnout form Tuesday's mid-term election. Even Iroquois County, with no contested local races, recorded a 52% voter turnout.
"There was so much publicity and advertising...
Iroquois County fire chiefs are on record, telling the Iroquois County Board not to reduce the size of the 9-1-1 governing board.
A letter to county board members finds the fire chiefs standing behind the size of the 12-member...
WATSEKA -- Sixteen combines and some 100 area farmers and friends came to the aid of an Iroquois County farm family Saturday.
It was just another familiar act of what farm families do to help each other.
And friends of the...
A wrong-way driver on I-65 in Jasper County, Indiana left a Rensselaer man seriously injured Saturday night.
42-year-old Brian Bohlke suffered serious internal injuries when his vehicle was hit head-on. The other driver...
(Roselawn, IN) -- Families of victims killed in an Indiana air tragedy are providing a special memorial. They gathered Thursday in Roselawn on the 20th anniversary of the plane crash that killed 68 people. The plane went down in...
A vigil Thursday evening in Pontiac remembered fallen police officer Casey Kohlmeier. The late-Pontiac officer and his canine partner died last year when they were hit by a drunk driver.
Kohlmeier and his police dog were killed...
A 48 year old United States Postal Service employee died after a Will County accident early Thursday afternoon.
Daniel M McGuire of Channahon was pronounced dead just after 1 pm. Police reported McGuire's postal service truck...
More than a half-dozen mayors in Kankakee County are throwing their support behind a referendum question next week to form an executive form of county government.
Spokesperson Tim Nugent, the mayor Manteno, says "it makes that...
