“We need all lawmakers to stay safe, it’s a dangerous time,” he told reporters.

East Peoria, Eureka athletes are up for the Journal Star high school girls athlete of the week for Jan. 19-24.

Shelters and warming centers across Central Illinois are seeing an increase in people seeking warmth, food, and shelter due ...

CENTRAL ILLINOIS ( 25News Now) - Fifty-two years after their first game in 1974, Morton becomes the 16th girls’ team in ...

Metamora diver was voted the Journal Star boys high school athlete of the week for Jan. 12-17, presented by CEFCU.

On December 2, 2025, after two and a half hours of public comment from some 40 community members, Champaign city council ...

A proposed data center in Pekin has residents concerned about noise pollution, electricity demands and adverse environmental ...

Pekin Mayor Mary Burress discussed the possibility of a data center and a three-year marketing campaign to rebrand the city ...

Over a hundred Pekin residents attended a city council meeting to express their opposition to a proposed data center, citing ...

The City of Pekin, not Tazewell County, will have the final authority over whether a proposed data center moves forward ...

U.S. senators from Illinois, Democrat Paul Douglas and Republican Everett Dirksen, made consequential contributions to civil ...

Hidden in plain sight along a modest stretch of road in Pekin, Illinois sits a culinary time machine that locals guard with ...