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Mega Millions ticket
National
2 years ago
Friday’s Mega Millions drawing is worth an estimated $1.15 billion, one of the game’s top jackpots

Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot will potentially be the fifth largest in the game’s history.

Armbruster exhibit at ALPLM
History
2 years ago
Armbruster’s 150-year legacy highlighted in new exhibit at ALPLM

The ALPLM exhibit shows the company’s evolution from crafting wagon covers for pioneers to making tents for state fairs, movie sets, and military operations.

Jeremy Register
Crime
2 years ago
CRIME STOPPERS: Help needed to locate missing 36-year-old Springfield man

Register is white, approximately 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 180 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. 

JB Pritzker holds up Fight for $15 t-shirt at the Illinois State Capitol
Local
2 years ago
Illinois’ minimum wage to increase to $15 on Jan. 1, completing 6-year transition

2019 minimum wage law was Pritzker’s first major legislative victory.

ISP trooper Clay Carns
Local
2 years ago
An Illinois State Police trooper is dead after a roadside crash outside Chicago

Trooper Clay Carns was on I-55 roughly 50 miles (80.5 kilometers) outside Chicago around 9:45 p.m. Monday when he spotted debris on the roadway.

Cat eating
National
2 years ago
Oregon cat died after eating bird flu-contaminated pet food. Recall includes Illinois.

The product was sold through distributors in 12 states, including Illinois, and Canada’s British Columbia.

Illinois Commerce Commission
Local
2 years ago
Regulators OK statewide electric grid upgrades, rate increases

Decision comes after state rejected utilities’ original grid plans last year 

Home Alone house in Winnetka, IL
Lifestyle
2 years ago
Can American families afford the current prices of iconic holiday movie homes?

From the ‘Home Alone’ house in Winnetka, Illinois, to the ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ home in Long Island, New York, these films showcase now-iconic homes where characters celebrate the season’s joys. Could today’s average American afford to buy one of these homes?

Capitol
Local
2 years ago
Nearly 300 new Illinois laws take effect in 2025

They include digital driver’s licenses, salary transparency and health insurance changes.