A number of early settlers of the Fulton County village were from the Scottish city of Dunfermline (pronounced "Done-ferm-lin ...

The Old Chain of Rocks Bridge on June 19, 2025. It opened to traffic in 1929 and was rerouted in 1936 to carry Route 66 over ...

Two Illinois lottery players will become millionaires after each purchased a $1 million winning Powerball ticket for ...

Two lucky Illinoisans won $1 million each in the Powerball drawing on July 9, with one ticket purchased online and the other ...

Heat indexes are expected to remain above 100 for the next few days throughout Illinois. Find out when it will cool off.

This past school year, for the first time, Illinois schools were required to teach a unit on the experience and history of Native people in the state. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin reports on how teachers ...

Power has been restored to almost 300 people in Mt. Zion. The cause of the outage was a downed tree that fell on a power ...

The primary draws to southern Illinois are the outdoor recreation activities in Shawnee National Forest, including hiking, ...

An opponent of the Mount Hope Cemetery solar farm has sent a 36-page legal memorandum to the mayor and other Belleville ...

The McHenry County Historical Society and Museum in Union has introduced a new interactive way to explore the history of ...