O’FALLON, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a southern Illinois woman is facing charges she planned to asphyxiate her three young children with carbon dioxide. The St. Clair County State’s Attorney’s office says 29-year-old Emily Sparks […]

CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois State Board of Education voted unanimously to adopt the state’s most restrictive permanent rules that ban the use of locked seclusion rooms and prohibit schools from using prone restraint. The […]

STREATOR – A medical cannabis cultivator that plans to operate at John and Joe’s Florist in Streator received approval from that city’s council on Wednesday night. Llerem, LLC will be granted a special use permit […]

STREATOR – Streator High School’s choir groups will be putting on a Folk themed Winter Concert at 7 p.m. on Thursday. The concert and choir groups will sing an array of folk songs from different […]

PERU – The city of Peru is taking extra measures at its waste, water treatment plant in the event of a flood. After news of availability for funding with the Illinois Emergency Management Association, the […]