Illinois has a special insurance fund to help those with such unexpected surprises. From the disappearing Alton soccer field that collapsed from a suspected underground mine to the Belleville ...

BELLEVILLE, Ill. – About 330,000 Illinois homes sit on top of old abandoned mines. Some say their homes are sinking because of it. Concerns are growing after a reported Pennsylvania sinkhole ...

A video shows a giant sinkhole swallowing the center of a soccer field in Illinois, leaving the community ... caused by a collapsed underground mine. There have been no reports of injuries.

A park in Alton, Illinois, was closed after a massive sinkhole ... The collapse is thought to be a result of a working mine, Haynes told KMOV. No injuries were reported. "The mines have been ...

The sinkholes in that area had formed because of an old coal mine, a police spokesperson said. Shanee Carpenter, of Belleville, Illinois, told Nexstar’s KTVI she fears what’s happening under ...