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Storm clouds over Springfield, IL.
IL State News
2 months ago
Severe weather pounds Illinois and Indiana, knocking out power as tornado sirens blare

“No power. It was very scary. We were down in the basement,” Javid Jenkins in Homewood, a Chicago suburb, said. “We’re built for snow. We’re built for cold. We’re not built for this.”

Local
2 months ago
IL law requires 988 info in public buildings, suicide prevention curriculum in schools

Advocates like Tammy Bush are committed to helping people of all ages know that help is available. The law is named Tammurra’s Act in memory of Bush’s daughter.

Illinois Supt. of Education Dr. Tony Sanders speaks at the Governor’s Mansion in Springfield in March 2026. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jenna Schweikert)
Local
2 months ago
School funding stretched thin as costs rise, corporate revenue source shrinks

Despite $350M funding increases, overall ‘adequacy gap’ grows for 3rd straight year.

An aerial view of Sugar Camp mine in Franklin County. (Photo provided by Prairie Rivers Network)
Crime
2 months ago
Feds: Southern Illinois coal mine managers concealed ‘deadly conditions’

Four managers of a sprawling Franklin County mine face federal charges of concealing an underground fire, falsifying safety records and obstructing investigators, while a fifth pleaded guilty in August 2025.

Plans to demolish the dilapidated housing known as Greek Row on the SIU Carbondale campus and replace it with a new development called Saluki Village are on hold. (Peyton Cook/Saluki Local Reporting Lab)
IL State News
2 months ago
SIU Foundation pays $2.2M to cancel new dorm development

Old Greek Row deteriorates as demolition stalls, leaving Saluki Village plans in limbo.

The SIU Carbondale campus is shown in this file photo from April 2025. (Lylee Gibbs/Saluki Local Reporting Lab)
Crime
2 months ago
Former SIU professor exposed for indecent act on campus pleads guilty to amended charge

He was ordered to pay $1,000 in fines after admitting he recorded himself masturbating in a lecture hall.

Ambulance
Local
2 months ago
Springfield man dead following crash near Jacksonville

An investigation into the crash continues by both the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department and Patterson’s office.

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IL State News
3 months ago
More than 50 bodies found improperly stored and decomposing at Chicago funeral home

State Comptroller Susana Mendoza said Friday that Johanna and Clark Morgan previously ran a crematory in Chicago Heights, south of Chicago, which had its license revoked last year after authorities discovered improperly stored bodies and hundreds of cremated remains that had never been returned to their families.

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Crime
3 months ago
15-year-old dressed as a clown stabbed a man to death in random attack, police say

Police in East St. Louis, Illinois, found the body of 78-year-old John W. Allen of Jennings, Missouri, in a street Monday. Jennings is also in the St. Louis area.

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