Despite milder May temperatures, the spring season was still a top-10 warmest on record in many places in the Midwest, including in St. Louis, Peoria, and Paducah, according to Illinois ...

Over the past 10 years, women have held fewer than one in 10 construction jobs. Prior to 2021, fewer than 5% of new ...

Everyone deserves quality public education and transit, whether residing in the Gold Coast or Roseland, Little Village or ...

Introducing "Butkus," the Turf Tank robot leased for around $15,000 to paint every field on the University of Illinois ...

The annual all-star Shrine game pits the top Illinois high school players against one another, in benefit of the Shriners Hospitals for Children.

The Peoria Zoo’s 12-year-old reticulated giraffe, Emy, is recovering well after undergoing surgery to remove her right eye ...

With severe storms inching into the Chicago area, what you will see and when depends on where you are in the region.

Multiple tornado touchdowns have been reported by weather spotters in Illinois amid an outbreak of severe weather Wednesday.

PEORIA — LiV Warfield's performance was worth its weight in gold Tuesday on the NBC reality competition show, "America's Got Talent." The Peoria-born 1997 Notre Dame High School graduate ...

Limestone volleyball, runner-up statewide in Class 3A, was voted the Peoria Journal Star 2024-25 high school team of the year ...

In the Springfield metro area, about 9,600 Black people and 13,390 white people were living in poverty in 2023, according to the five-year ACS data. In the city of Springfield, about 9,000 Blacks ...

Spread out all over the country, they’ve been going through the set list on their own. This week, they’ve practiced at Earth ...