A DeSoto man charged with bludgeoning an 8-year-old to death pleaded guilty on Monday to one count of murder with an enhancement for a killing that was “exceptionally brutal” and involved “wanton cruelty.”

A DCFS caseworker spoke with the boy’s mother just hours before authorities say she and her son were brutally beaten with a softball bat on May 13.

The Pritzker has announced a plan to greatly reduce services and employment at the southern Illinois mental health and developmental center.

Some are wary of the measles vaccine, which had nearly wiped out the disease. More cases are beginning to show up.

Jonathan Ross, a native of Greater Peoria, is named among several Trump administration officials in a civil lawsuit alleging the ICE agent is responsible for carrying out a conspiracy to unlawfully target ethnic communities and their allies.

A new study predicts data centers expected to be built in Illinois over the next decade would create thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in new property tax revenue.

This summer, scammers convinced a 78-year-old Marion woman that her Edward Jones Investment accounts had been compromised, and that she needed to buy more than $800,000 in gold bars and give it to a purported federal agent for safekeeping.

Weeks later, he files a federal lawsuit to prevent cuts at the state-run facility

Vincenzo Vitelli’s work focuses on a new way of thinking of collections of “agents” — such as robots — as a form of material.

Margaret Croke, Bryan Drew share different visions for office’s transparency, oversight

Hundreds of people gathered along the riverfront Monday morning to watch the 80-year-old Chester Bridge come down.

After 50 years in broadcasting on radio and television, Chuck Collins retired in late 2025. But the former WMBD and WEEK meteorologist is still busy, including teaching this October at Bradley University's Osher Life Long Learning Institute.