BEARDSTOWN -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has formally agreed that it is responsible for maintaining an access channel between the Beardstown marina and the Illinois River. The ruling could ...

For an Illinois River town, there isn’t a whole lot of river to look at in Beardstown. Silt falling out of the Sangamon River upstream found the entrance to the town’s marina 20 years ago, and ...

The Illinois Department of Transportation announced Thursday that a new $62 million two-lane bridge carrying Route 67 over the Illinois River at Beardstown has been included in the Department's ...

Beardstown received a $400,000 Illinois Department of Natural Resource's Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development grant to develop a camping ground with facilities, a handicapped-accessible ...

Christy Bley, the petition drive’s sponsor, says the trees are an important part of the Beardstown Marina. “The eagles are roosting there,” Bley said. “There are all kinds of birds there.