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UNDATED (AP) - The NBA's two best teams right now play their home games at Staples Center. The Los Angeles Clippers picked up their seventh straight win and pulled even with the Lakers in the overall ...

UNDATED (AP) - Chicago Blackhawks rookie Pius Suter was looking for his first NHL goal when he went to United Center Sunday morning. He now has his first hat trick after leading the Hawks to a 6-2 rou...

Financial Wellness Month Time to tune up your financial strategy. Provided by MidAmerica Financial Resources January is Financial Wellness Month, a time to remind people to make arrangements for their...

Virginia Ann Green, 94, of East Peoria, Illinois, and formerly of Kinmundy passed away at 3:52 PM, Saturday, January 23, 2021, at the Generations at Riverview Assisted Living, in East Peoria, Illinois...

Kara Lee Ferguson, 51, of Mount Vernon, Illinois, passed away at 12:47 am on January 24, 2021, at White Oaks Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Mount Vernon. There will be no public services hel...

Wilda Mae Sumner, 101, of Mount Vernon, Illinois, passed away at 4:15 am on January 23, 2021, at Heritage Center in Evansville, Indiana. Mae was a homemaker most of her married life. Her home was alwa...

Sunday marks the first anniversary of the first case of COVID-19 confirmed in Illinois. The Chicago case was the second confirmed case in the country. During a Sunday Facebook message, State Public He...

CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago teachers have voted to defy the school district's order to return to their classrooms for the resumption of in-person instruction despite not being vaccinated against the corona...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - A 36-year-old southern Illinois woman has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison in a medical hoax that tricked people who gave her money and other benefits. Sarah D...

DESOTO, Illinois (AP) - The only bank in the small southern Illinois community of DeSoto will close later this year. That’s left village officials scrambling to draw another bank to the town of ...