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

Gov. J.B. Pritzker vowed on late-night television to protect Texas House Democrats who fled to Illinois to try and stop the Republican-controlled state legislature from redrawing congressional distric ...

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

The 2025 Effingham County Fair broke records for rodeo attendance, number of demolition derby contestants, number of ...

Longtime Chicago lobbyist Jay Doherty was sentenced Tuesday to a year and a day in prison for his role in a yearslong bribery ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday signed into law 124 of the 436 bills sent to him by lawmakers in the spring legislative session.

HSHS Medical Group has welcomed Dr. Bashar Alzahabi to HSHS Medical Group Family and Internal Medicine - Effingham. He is a ...

Total Grain Marketing FS (TGM) has completed a significant renovation at its facility in Neoga by adding a new rail loadout facility, constructing 1.5 million bushels of additional storage capacity, ...

To address the needs of communities, Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) has launched HSHS Community Connect, a digital database of free- or reduced-cost community-based programs and services availa ...

NEWTON — Sydney Kinder felt she was at her "peak" when she was a sophomore on the Newton track and field team. That season ...

Forty-three harness races took place at the Effingham County Fair over the past week in Altamont. The races started on July 27 and ran through Friday afternoon.