Disco Demolition Night, widely mythologized as a rowdy publicity stunt or a funny footnote in baseball lore, was something ...

The Illinois State Police has reported that a driver disregarded and avoided functioning railroad crossing lights, gates, and bells early Sunday south of Neoga before colliding with a freight train, ...

SHELBYVILLE — The defendant accused of shooting to death 54-year-old Mattoon man Chad Perry remains free after being granted pretrial release on a preliminary charge of involuntary manslaughter.

And those are just the officially reported numbers. By other accounts, it was 22 dead — including six burned bodies — and at least a handful of others injured that month.