Gilster-Mary Lee, a Chester, Illinois-based food manufacturer and Perry County's second-largest employer, has received an inaugural award for hiring workers with autism. It is the first employer in ...

Scores from Illinois from Friday night on Week 3 for high school football teams.

The lower Mississippi River remains low as the new crop marketing year begins and that could become a challenge for ag ...

In a LaSalle County courtroom Wednesday, Judge Michael C. Jansz denied and dismissed five alleged constitutional rights ...

Plus previews of West vs. Normandy, East St. Louis in Philadelphia, Chester at Freeburg and other metro-east Week 3 games.

State officers have performed searches in a southeast Illinois prison in the last several days as part of an ongoing ...

Just under a third of last year's intake were mature returners to education, and Chester has one of the highest proportions of students who are the first in their immediate family to attend ...

Illinois is just above the national average with an 18.2% test positivity rate. COVID study:Illinois shows significant improvement in mental health since COVID began As COVID-19 cases rise ...

Staff at Chester Zoo are devastated after the ‘sudden’ death of a female elephant called Riva Hi Way, a month after her mum Sundara also died. In a statement posted on its website today ...

Peoria appears poised to take a different path forward on combatting homelessness than some of its smaller neighboring cities in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that ruled cities have a right ...

Chester Zoo has confirmed the death of an elephant whose mother died just a month before. The four-year-old female Asian elephant, named Riva, died while under general anaesthetic on Wednesday ...

Let us know! Chester’s state-appointed receiver Michael Doweary wants to monetize the bankrupt city’s water assets to make up for fiscal shortfalls. “Monetization has to occur for the city of Chester ...