Gov. JB Pritzker said as the Trump administration "undermine science, spread dangerous vaccine misinformation and put countless lives at risk, my administration is forging a different path."
- Hannah Wyman | Post-Dispatch
Last Monday, Alton Steel, one of the city’s largest employers, announced its impending closure due to “insurmountable challenges” such as old equipment, intense market competition and industry consolidation.
- Madeline Buckley | Chicago Tribune
Adam Saracco is charged with misdemeanor battery in one of the first known instances in Cook County of an immigration officer brought to court in connection with encounters with protesters.
- From staff reports
Madison County Clerk and Recorder's offices on Thursday will launch TextMyGov, a text messaging service used to deliver government notifications and other important information.
- Mark Schlinkmann | Post-Dispatch
A Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod official from Springfield, Illinois, faces a child pornography charge, federal authorities said Thursday.
- By John O'Connor/ Associated Press
Sean Grayson was convicted in October of second-degree murder in a police brutality case that prompted protests over systemic racism and led to a U.S. Department of Justice inquiry.
- Mark Schlinkmann | Post-Dispatch
Federal authorities say Jeffrey A. Mullinix, 67, made threats in commenting on a YouTube video from ABC News last week.
Kaleb Rakers, 25, was charged Wednesday in St. Clair County with 15 counts of possessing child sexual abuse material.
Austin L. Mullins, 22, admitted fatally shooting Jacob Wall, 23, of Wood River, at a party in Wood River in 2023, authorities said.
Detectives and intelligence analysts working at the Morgan Wallen concert at Arrowhead Stadium identified a post on X that included a threat against Patrick Mahomes and TravisKelce.
Authorities have released the name of the Worden man who died in a crash on Interstate 80 over the weekend.
Alton Steel Inc. said Monday it is shutting down effective this week, citing "insurmountable challenges" such as aging infrastructure, intense competition and industry consolidation.
Two-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski of Springfield picks up Democratic primary opponent in Dylan Blaha, a progressive Army veteran from Urbana
Herman Shaw was a trailblazer at Edwardsville High School as a Black athlete in the early 1950s. He passed away this month at 91.
The woman, 40-year-old Rachel E. Tarrence, was driving a vehicle that had been reported stolen just after 10 p.m. Jan. 4.
When a home in his childhood neighborhood came up for sale in 2018, nostalgia kicked in for Chris Schroeder.
Freeburg Mayor SethSpeiser declined to comment, saying he didn’t want to interfere with the case of another defendant, former Cardinals pitcher Danny Cox.
Incident took place Monday night in 600 block of State Street, police said.
The victim was Shenandoah Burton, 18, of Swansea, said the St. Clair County coroner.
An earthquake with a 3.8 magnitude shook central Illinois early Tuesday morning.
Officers from the Belleville and Swansea police departments responded to the 1700 block of Jamestown Road at around 11:19 p.m. to shots fired.
A judge issued a guilty verdict for Keith A. Sanders, 26, in the fatal shooting of Ra'Niya Steward in February 2024.
Julie A. Nappier, 54, of Valmeyer, was sentenced to serve a prison term concurrently with a previous sentence for theft from a Columbia, Illinois, district.
The Illinois law allows ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they are received up to two weeks later.
Court documents allege Clinton J. Trentman stabbed County Board member Bob Trentman and charged at three sheriff’s deputies “with a weapon appearing to be a firearm, a pellet gun.”
Budzinski says GOP bill would let employers short workers who only sometimes receive tips, by allowing them to be paid lower hourly wages for all hours worked
Sr. Julia Huiskamp, a social worker, started a community center inside Brooklyn's housing projects. And she has no plans to stop.
Illinois filed a 103-page lawsuit that seeks to severely limit federal immigration agents’ authority to execute the types of aggressive raids that began in Chicago last September.
Close to $28 million could be on its way to the Metro East area for projects ranging from river upgrades to water treatment.
Illinois State Police said St. Clair County deputies received a report of a person walking in the road with a firearm.