Category Archives: Local News

Civil rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson has died. He was 84. Jackson was hospitalized in November while battling a progressive neuromuscular disease. Jackson was born in North Carolina but eventually...

New details are emerging about the death of Rochester High School student Jack Zucco over the weekend. According to a report from the Jo Daviess County Sheriff, where Zucco passed, "on February 13, 20...

This is Presidents Day. Government offices are closed, as are post offices, most public schools, courts, banks and the stock market. Today is one of 11 federal holidays with the next one on May 25 for...

A woman has been arrested for a fatal shooting in Jacksonville on Saturday. Jacksonville Police arrested 23-year-old Marissa Teubner of Jacksonville on Saturday evening. She is accused of shooting 31-...

The next round of road closures for water main relocation for the Springfield Rail Improvements Project begins tomorrow. Eastbound North Grand Avenue between 8th and 9th streets and northbound 9th Str...

WMAY's Patrick Pfingsten reports in his The Illinoize political newsletter... An effort to revive a ballot initiative to remove redistricting from the hands of politicians will not appear on the ballo...

The start of the High School Football season in Illinois will be moving up a few days as the Illinois High School Association announced Feb. 13 that its member schools voted to approve a bylaw that ch...

According to reporting from the Illinois Times, Sangamon County Deputy Travis Koester, the president of the union that represents deputies in the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office pleaded with a judge ...

The title for your next automobile will be digital. The Secretary of State's office has announced that all financial institutions that process five or more liens annually in Illinois will be required ...

Religious leaders will be allowed into a ICE detention center in the Chicago suburbs for Ash Wednesday next week thanks to a judge's order. U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman said denying Catholic p...