The Pontiac Public Library is hosting the month-long exhibition with special events scheduled for Feb. 11 and 22.

After complaints over odors and dust went unheeded, the chief executive of the suburban Hampshire company TiEnergy says he ...

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

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CARMI, Il. (WEVV) — Multiple streets are closed in Carmi, Illinois following a fatal train versus pedestrian accident Monday morning. Carmi Police Department reports that the railroad crossing at ...

While a storm system moving through the area this weekend will bring some freezing drizzle to the area on Saturday, the systems that follow will stand a better chance of bringing accumulating snow to ...

Enough people are noticing in Illinois that some counties want to secede from the Land of Lincoln and join a state that isn’t ruled by public unions and their political yes-men. In November ...

Public schools in Illinois are administered and funded on all levels: local, state, and federal. Superintendent Mark Jontry, who oversees schools in McLean, Livingston, Logan, and DeWitt Counties ...

Jose Pena of Monroe has been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud Pena allegedly conspired to defraud Williams Sonoma by overbilling millions for trucking services If ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The pattern becomes more active starting Tuesday morning as we track a series of systems set to impact central Indiana into next weekend. Lingering clouds and seasonal highs in the mid ...

These establishments in Monroe County were inspected between Jan. 13 and Feb. 2, according to Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture records. The list also includes earlier inspections not ...