Amidst one of the nation's historic floods, one of the most frenetic evacuations happened on a small island frequently ...

The National Weather Service issued Extreme Heat Watches and Flood Advisories throughout Illinois. Here's the forecast.

A marker on the flooded road from Kaskaskia, Illinois, to St. Mary, Missouri, on July 1, 2019. Water has covered La Grande Rue, the main road into and out of town, for weeks.

Lyons explained that Kaskaskia began as one building — in 1703, the Jesuits built a chapel. Not long after, a small population of native peoples and 12 French settlers called the place home.

The map of Randolph County, Illinois before an 1881 flood that cut Kaskaskia off from the Illinois mainland. Today, Kaskaskia is one of two Illinois towns located west of the Mississippi River.

Kaskaskia has been separated from the rest of the state since the Mississippi meandered around it in the 1880s. The Liberty Bell of the West, donated by Louis XV in 1741, is still at a historic ...

NEW ATHENS, IL (KTVI) – The Kaskaskia River is a relaxing retreat and a place many recreational boaters go for fishing and a good time each year. However, some are worried the release of more ...

Kaskaskia gained five residents, ... In the past 10 years, Kaskaskia, Illinois experienced a population boom, growing by 55 percent, according to the Census. That's right.

He found them, from squirrel stew to squirrel enchiladas, in cookbooks from a Catholic church in Kaskaskia, Illinois, perhaps the only inhabited part of the state that is located west of the ...

Editor's note: This is the first installment of a biweekly column by Tom Emery, a historical researcher who lives in Carlinville, Ill. Illinois Through the Years will provide a glimpse of the last ...