McLean

The 13-year-old was a passenger in a SUV that crashed on U.S. Route 136 under the Interstate 55 underpass. He died at the hospital early Monday morning.

After a years-long fight to save the old water tower in McLean, work is now being done on the Depression-era relic that a community group hopes will help fuel a renaissance in the village of about 700 residents.

Mt. Hope-Funks Grove Fire Chief Eric Fulk has ordered a ban on open burning through Oct. 23 due to ongoing dry weather conditions.

McLean County's namesake town likely has the highest arcade-to-people ratio in the world. And Arcadia is still growing.

The Department of Justice released guidance that state and local governments must create fully accessible websites and social media presences to avoid lawsuits related to the American with Disabilities Act.

Arcadia owner John Yates is converting the building used as a workshop for 30 years into a new pay-once, play-all-day arcade.

A nonprofit group wanting to preserve the old water tower in McLean urged the village to let volunteers take it over and clean it up.

Shirley, Atlanta and McLean, IL teamed up to present a weekend of fun along the Mother Road, anchored by an art fair in Funks Grove.

Water towers are the skyscrapers of many smaller communities that dot the countryside. But do these structures have any value when they are no longer is use? A group in one McLean County village believes they do, but their efforts to save their water tower may be too late.

Travis Wilson can make being an EMT sound like the coolest gig in the world.“It’s not like anything else in the field of medicine,” Wilson said. “It’s…