The Chamber of Commerce has honored former Journal Gazette publisher Bill Hamel posthumously with the Mattoon Icon Award, retired Lytle Park and Pool Superintendent Justin Grady as Citizen of the ...

Karen Wiesemeyer is the owner of the Madison County eatery, which has a large following of local customers and Route 66 ...

The Madison County law enforcement agency responded to the Innkeeper Motel for a report of a vehicle in the water. There were ...

Larry Don Wickham, 79, of Edwardsville, IL, died at 8:55 p.m. Sun. Mar. 16, 2025 at his home surrounded by his family while under hospice care. He... Darren Drake Nelson, age 53, of Edwardsville ...

Amari Williams #22 of the Kentucky Wildcats drives against Tomislav Ivisic #13 of the Illinois Fighting Illini in the first half in the second round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at ...

Coinciding with the grand opening of the Hamel Honors and Scholars College, current and alumni Hamel Scholars participated in an enriching weekend of networking and collaboration built around the ...

Severe weather will impact a large swath of central and northern Illinois today, but the risk level is less pressing than the previous storm that the state faced last week. Areas from ...

Il Foglio, Italy’s conservative liberal daily, has embarked on a month-long experiment to demonstrate AI’s impact on journalism and daily life. The four-page broadsheet edition of the newspaper will ...

That would be (state) “Seal on a Bedsheet,” the derisive moniker with which some have burdened the Illinois state flag, a gleaming white banner emblazoned with the state’s bald eagle-themed ...

EDWARDSVILLE — A Madison man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the May 2023 shooting of Alton resident Tyrone Williams. Chauncy D. Lucas Jr., 24, of Madison, pled guilty ...

Illinois basketball is back in the Big Dance. The Illini are playing in the NCAA Tournament for a fifth straight year. They'll try and recreate the success they had last season where head coach ...

The venue? Can't beat it. As for the remaining details of the 2025 NCAA Tournament path for Illinois (21-12), you'll just have to wait and see like everybody else. Or ... you can read below and ...