A federal judge on Friday denied former Illinois Speaker Michael Madigan’s legal arguments that he should remain out of ...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made her second visit of the year to Illinois on Friday to condemn the ...

Successful democracies endanger their success because of the complacency success breeds. They solve problems only when lashed by necessity: Britain considered Winston Churchill a Cassandra — until the ...

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We’re tempted to cheer that divorce rates have (so far) decreased for millennials who married in the 2010s, according to new research from the Institute for Family Studies. But behind ...

"I worked to be the one everyone could count on and look up to in the future and the one everyone on the other team didn't ...

Rios — the 2025 Effingham Daily News Softball Player of the Year — ended her career with St. Anthony on a high note during ...

The “Soldier Boy” statue that used to stand outside Effingham’s VFW Theodore Hoffman Post 1769 has been restored and ...

State officials ushered in the start of the Illinois State Fair on Wednesday with the annual unveiling of the butter cow.

Recent rounds of “million-dollar rains” helped crops in many areas deal with the stress of heat indices in excess of 100 ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker brushed aside suggestions Thursday that FBI agents could be deployed to arrest a group of Texas Democratic ...

Below are area sports results from junior high contests held on Wednesday. You can e-mail results to Daily News Sports Editor Alex Wallner at [email protected]. Local news, sports ...