Ellsworth Dansby III spoke about his father, a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, at the African American Cultural and ...

The Decatur Fire Department responded to a vacant house fire late Friday night. The department was dispatched to 424 S ...

The hotel and banquet hall being built in Yorkville will open under the Hyatt Studios brand and will feature a public ...

A lot has changed since Christy Wheat bought Simp McGhee’s restaurant in downtown Decatur 20 years ago. But one thing has ...

Two-and-a-half years after a Decatur man’s murder, one of the people accused of the crime has pleaded guilty in that case.

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, the state’s most powerful politician during his nearly four-decade reign, was ...

A Decatur police officer was involved in a wreck with two other vehicles on Saturday evening near the intersection of Danville Road Southwest and Freemont Street Southwest, according to police ...

A cinematic fixture in Decatur is shutting the doors. The Avon Theater, which first opened in 1916, played host to Vaudeville ...

He's among 800 people who have filed complaints since May against juvenile detention centers in Illinois alleging they were ...

The Decatur County Family YMCA is throwing a Hawaiian luau party for dads and their daughters on Feb. 22 and tickets are now ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said he would block pardoned Capitol insurrectionists from serving in local government positions, citing a state law ordinance, according to a Thursday letter ...

and the beer began rolling out in Central Illinois this week, including locations in Bloomington-Normal, Decatur, Mattoon and beyond. The beer is now available in 28 total sates, and as far west ...