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The Illinois Department of Public Health reports more than seven million COVID-19 vaccines have now been administered in Illinois. Friday was the third straight record-breaking day for doses administe...

CHICAGO (AP) - A doctor says a toddler shot in the head while riding in a car on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive has been removed from a medically induced coma but remains in critical condition. Dr. Marcel...

CHICAGO (AP) - Prosecutors say a young man who was with a 13-year-old boy fatally shot by a Chicago police officer last month fired the rounds that drew the officer's attention. Prosecutors said Satur...

A 25-year-old Salem man was injured in a single-vehicle crash Friday night in the 600 block of East Chestnut Street in Louisville. State Police say Brock Metcalf was traveling westbound when he left t...

A 28-year-old Centralia man has been arrested on a recently issued warrant for unlawful delivery of under five grams of methamphetamine. Brandon Rogozinsky was taken into custody by the Marion County ...

Two graduated from Marion County Drug Court on Friday and had all criminal charges dropped against them as a result of successful completion of drug court. 35-year-old Jacob Heern of Centralia had cha...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A judge has delayed a decision on whether the Dakota Access Oil pipeline should be shut down while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts an environmental review on the projec...

CHICAGO (AP) - A judge says two former Illinois state lawmakers who argued that a freeze on raises violated the state Constitution can collect back pay. Comptroller Susana Mendoza is pledging to appea...

METTAWA, Ill. (AP) - Voters in a small Illinois town have reelected a mayor who ran a write-in campaign after President Donald Trump pardoned him in a gambling investigation. Casey Urlacher, the broth...

New daily COVID-19 cases rose above four-thousand Friday for the first time since the end of January. In addition to the 4,004 new and probable cases of infection, there were 21 additional deaths. The...