Items available ranged from sports cards featuring stars like Yogi Berra and Hank Aaron to the classic original Wheaties box featuring basketball great Michael Jordan.
Since 2019, spring enrollment at Western Illinois University has been in the neighborhood of 7,000 student and the trend continues this spring as well.
A tax that went unnoticed for nearly two decades is in the spotlight, along with the missing grants that were supposed to come with it. Now, local leaders want to take control, and get money back into housing south of Chicago.
One year ago, former Miss USA 2019, Cheslie Kryst committed suicide. Her death prompted a nationwide conversation on checking on the friends who appear to have it all together.
By Mirya Holman, Emily Farris, The Associated Press and The Conversation
A gun control law signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois in January 2023 immediately faced opposition from a group key to the law’s enforcement: sheriffs.
The federal lawsuit filed in the southern district of Illinois asks for a declaration that the law violates the right to keep and bear arms and prevents the enforcement of the law.
“A low chance of survival.” That’s what doctors said about a Peoria woman earlier this month after a crash that could have taken her life. Now, her family is coping with the aftermath, and what happens next.
Peru Mayor Kenneth Kolowski says he found out about St. Margaret’s closing at the same as everybody else, Friday afternoon. He’s spent hours on the phone with state lawmakers talking about options for both employees and patients who received care there.
Supporters hold rally for Noah Guzman. In December, he was granted an emergency order of protection against the two students he claims took the photos. A Peoria County judge ordered the two students to stay at least 25 feet away from him.
Judge Josh Morrison, a recently-elected judge who formerly filed suit against the SAFE-T Act as a state’s attorney, granted a temporary restraining order to stop enforcement of the assault weapon ban.