SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (IRN) — Illinois lawmakers want to allow people who were overpaid unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic to keep the money despite...

CHICAGO (AP) — A radar-confirmed tornado swept through suburban Chicago, damaging homes, toppling trees, knocking out power and causing some injuries, officials said. At...

  TINLEY, PARK, Ill. (WJPF) — Over a year before the primary, one democratic candidate for Illinois Secretary of State has  dropped out of...

A Carbondale man has been arrested in connection to a home burglary. Robert Lee Blair, 52, was charged with residential burglary. Around 9:30 a.m....

ROCKTON, Ill. (AP) — Residents near a northern Illinois chemical plant were cleared to return to their homes Friday, four days after officials issued...

  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WJPF) — Governor JB Pritzker has signed into law a bill that expands access to the ballot box and moves the...

  FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ill. (WJPF) — A bear has been spotted in Franklin County. It was spotted Thursday in the southwest area of Rend...

ROCKTON, Ill. (AP) — A company hired to help extinguish a fire that gutted a northern Illinois chemical plant this week used foam containing...