Earlier Wednesday, the jury heard from the defense’s final witness: Springfield lobbyist Heather Wier Vaught, who’d served a ...

PEORIA ( 25News Now) - A Peoria man pleaded guilty Thursday for the 2024 killing of his girlfriend’s kitten. Paul E. Cox III, ...

The city council Tuesday night unanimously approved a grant to reimburse Dream Center up to $105,000 to expand its capacity.

Sen. Laura Fine (D-Glenview) hopes to ban people from selling, distributing or offering baby food in Illinois that contains ...

Funding for PreK-12 education is one of the largest categories of spending in the entire state budget, accounting for about ...

Illinois, using BLS data. Counties are ranked by their preliminary unemployment rate in November 2024, with initial ties ...

A man currently in the Federal Correctional Institute in Pekin was sentenced to another 33 months in prison for aggravated ...

The 2023 law made big changes to Illinois’ pre-trail system, among other changes in the criminal justice system. Most notably ...

BLOOMINGTON ( 25News Now) - Jack Wadell, the trailblazer, mentor, and Bloomington native, is remembered for his trailblazing ...

With his dedication and passion, Mr. Jones is not just shaping the minds of today’s students at Thomas Metcalf Lab School; he ...

The suspect, Demarquis D. Turner, pled guilty to all three cases on Nov. 18, 2024. Those cases took place over a 12-month ...

Members from the 182nd Airlift Wing in Peoria, 5th Civil Support Team in Bartonville and others around the state are included ...