Category Archives: Local News
7th Circuit judges hear oral arguments after lower court judge threw case out
By HANNAH MEISEL Capitol News Illinois hmeisel@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - A panel of federal appellate judges on Thursday seemed skeptical of legal arguments made on behalf of Republican U.S. R...
Mar 30, 2024 Congressman Mike Bost.
Chicago plans to move migrants to other shelters and reopen park buildings for the summer
By KATHLEEN FOODY and MELISSA PEREZ WINDER Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago plans to close five shelters for migrants in the coming weeks and move nearly 800 people, including families, in orde...
Mar 30, 2024 Ronny Reyes, 22, leaves a temporary shelter for migrants at Piotrowski Park with his 5-month-old daughter Magaly Melende, Thursday, March 28, 2024, in Chicago. Piotrowski Park is one of the five shelters for migrants the city of Chicago plans to close in the coming weeks. The city's first step is moving 800 people into other shelters starting Saturday, clearing the park district fieldhouses to resume normal operations for summer. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
Fire burns 12 to 15 acres of woods northwest of Salem
A fire burned 12 to 15 acres of woods northwest of Salem on Friday night. Salem Fire Protection District officials say the fire in the 5500 block of Woodard School Road started from an unattended burn...
Mar 30, 2024
Police Beat for Saturday, March 30th, 2024
Salem Police arrested 43-year-old Tina Camp of Salem Mobile Home Park on an outstanding Marion County no-bond misdemeanor warrant. She was taken to the Marion County Jail to await a visit before the j...
Mar 30, 2024
Centralia Community Youth Center Executive Director steps down
This is the final week on the job for Centralia Community Youth Center Executive Director Herb Williams. Williams says the past ten years has been a good journey and very worthwhile, but he feels it i...
Mar 29, 2024 Herb Williams address the crowd during his Wall of Honor induction. Photo by Bruce Kropp.
Centralia area Easter Egg Hunt set for Wamac Park on Sunday
Wamac Mayor Butch Mathus is preparing for a large number of kids for the annual Easter Egg Hunt at the Wamac Park on Sunday. Mathus says he wants no kid to go away empty handed with gift bags prepared...
Mar 29, 2024 Wamac Mayor Butch Mathis announcing the winners of 67 bicycles and 84 Easter Baskets at a past Easter Egg Hunt at the Wamac City Park. Photo by Pat Hodges.
Unemployment drops across South Central Illinois in February
After a jump in January, unemployment numbers have come back down for area counties in February. Marion County had an unemployment rate of 5.1-percent. That's down a half percent from January and up a...
Mar 29, 2024 maxxyustas / Depositphotos.com
Magnitude 2.8 earthquake Thursday night near Germantown; no damage or injuries reported
GERMANTOWN, Ill. (AP) - An earthquake of magnitude 2.8 has been reported north of Germantown in Clinton County. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the earthquake was detected about 6:55 Thursday nigh...
Mar 29, 2024
Salem woman formally charged with leaving threatening voice mail against Salem Grade School bus
A 33-year-old Salem woman was formally charged in Marion County Court Thursday with felony intimidation and disorderly conduct in connection with a voice mail left threatening the driver and students ...
Mar 29, 2024 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Salem Mayor looks at accomplishments and upcoming projects in State of the City Message
Salem Mayor Nic Farley says job growth has returned to the city and looked back at a number of accomplishments during the past year in his annual State of the City Message. Farley told those in attend...
Mar 29, 2024 Salem Mayor Nic Farley delivers the State of the City message at A Fair Barn on Thursday afternoon.
