Board members gave County Engineer Darin Koelm approved to improve the last mile of Hickory Hill Lane and close to a half-mile of work on Butternut Road to accommodate Layers Incorporated chicken farm ...

A CBS News investigation found more than 50 civil rights complaints filed by families in Sangamon County, Illinois, against ...

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

Attorneys for the family of Sonya Massey announced they reached a $10 million settlement in the wrongful death case against ...

Jenn VanBibber is curator of objects and textiles for the Historical Museum based in Edwardsville IL and is helping with a ...

The family of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who was fatally shot by police in Illinois in July 2024, will receive $10 million ...

Arthur Schmidt, 44, of Portage, was sentenced to six years behind bars with one year suspended and to be spent on formal probation, according to the court. Schmidt had pleaded guilty in November to a ...

The family of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who was fatally shot in her kitchen by a sheriff’s deputy, has been awarded a $10 million settlement by Sangamon County in Illinois. Massey had called 911 ...

The family of a woman fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy outside Springfield last year that sparked protests around the nation will receive $10 million in a settlement approved by the Sangamon County ...

Ankrom's interest in Abraham Lincoln led him to a 10-year study of Stephen Douglas. The results have been two award-winning biographies, and Ankrom is working on the final volume of his three-volume ...

The Illinois Department on Aging has named Lifescape Community Services as the state’s Adult Protective Services provider in Lake County, effective as of Oct. 1, 2024.