Chatham is a community of about 15,000 people outside of the Illinois capital of Springfield. Those killed were Rylee Britton, 18, of Springfield, Ainsley Johnson, 8, Kathryn Corley, 7, and Alma ...

Four girls, as young as 4 years old, were killed when a driver plowed through an Illinois after-school building Monday afternoon, authorities said. The driver allegedly crashed an SUV into the ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said in a statement shared on X that he was "horrified and deeply saddened" by the incident in Chatham. "Parents said goodbye to their kids this morning not knowing it ...

A car’s crash into an after-school program building in central Illinois – a wreck that killed four people ages 7 to 18 and injured six other children – does not appear to have been a ...

(AP) — Three children and a teenager were killed and others were injured when a car drove through an after-school building in a small city outside Springfield, Illinois, but authorities said ...