A new notification may pop up on your phone’s GPS while driving on Illinois roads and highways, and leaders hope those alerts ...

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) is making $27 million of funding available for cities to replace diesel public transit buses with all-new electric models.

The Illinois State Police is teaming up with Google to make roads safer by integrating real-time alerts into popular GPS apps ...

Chapter 7 of a nine-part series about how Champaign County came to be, from former Champaign mayor and resident historian ...

Northern Illinois will be at its peak around the middle of October, with the northeast corner of the state seeing its peak pass first. This breathtaking scene from the Anderson Japanese Gardens in ...

In the Rockford area, Belvidere emerged as the top-ranked city, landing in the 46th percentile with an impressive overall ...

The Indianapolis Colts host the Pittsburgh Steelers in NFL Week 4 action on Sunday, and it will be shown on CBS. Spero Dedes ...

Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon weekend kicks off Friday with some new twists in its 41st year. One new event people can ...

National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists are warning 10 states in the Central and Northern U.S. of "extreme fire" risk.

Welcome to the Belleville News-Democrat’s Voter Guide for the congressional races in the Nov. 5 election in Illinois. The ...

The stone tower that gave this place its name was nearly a half billion years in the making — heated and thrust upward from ...

The Illinois State Archaeological Survey is conducting ... Brooklyn is the oldest and one of the few surviving majority-Black incorporated towns in the country. It was formed north of East St ...