Jo Webster, of West Point, Illinois, shows her Dolly Parton pin at Governor’s Day at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield on Aug. 14, 2024. Webster came with the Hancock County Democrats.

SPRINGFIELD – The summer is heating up at the Illinois State Fair for this weekend and the next, bringing thousands of people ...

The Illinois State Fair is underway, and agriculture is taking center stage with the annual Cream of the Crop photo contest.

State Treasurer Michael Frerichs has announced the winners of the 2025 Cream of the Crop Photography Contest, a competition ...

The annual festival celebrates the naming of Route 66, which happened in Springfield in 1926. Check out the sights above. To report a correction or typo, please email digitalnews@ky3.com.

Caitlin Darling of Springfield said she cried viewing the total solar eclipse in southern Illinois in 2017. "It really was the coolest thing," Darling recalled. "I could use a good cry again.