Community members celebrated the 40th annual Bagelfest and the end of Mattoon's unsafe water alert during the festival's breakfast and rainy parade Saturday morning.

Congratulations to those tying the knot!

MATTOON — Scientists say the ideal recipe for a toxic algae bloom to poison your water supply is a relatively shallow, slow-moving water source, lots of sun and plenty of excess nutrients, like ...

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has become the latest governing body in the sports world to enact a policy change around transgender athlete competition.

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BENTON — Five Mississippi men have been fined thousands and sentenced to years of probation after they used illegal hunting methods to poach deer in five southern Illinois counties, the U.S ...

Gambling could soon come to Chicago’s neighborhood bars or international airports as aldermen eye legalizing video gambling machines as a way to add tax revenue.

CHARLESTON — Carol Daddazio Stevens, Professor Emerita of English at Eastern Illinois University, passed away from complications of Parkinson's disease at the Odd Fellow-Rebekah Home in Mattoon ...

CHICAGO — At least 15 people were shot overnight Friday across Chicago, and at least four people died from their wounds, police say.

Illinois employers can generally require employees to provide a doctor’s note to excuse sick time, in some cases, if the employee has missed more than three consecutive days of work.

A Lombard teen faces terrorism and weapons charges for allegedly planning a terror attack at the Islamic Education Center in Glendale Heights, authorities announced ...

BOYLE, Madeline E., 93, Mattoon, died Sunday (July 20, 2025). Mitchell-Jerdan Funeral Home, Mattoon.