The Illinois River at Beardstown was expected to be around 18 feet, which is in the moderate flood stage, reaching 20.5 feet by Saturday, according to the Minneapolis-based River Forecast Center.

Paul Booth was 4 years old in 1943 when a record-setting flood of the Illinois River at Beardstown forced his family to evacuate. Booth, now 76, and other residents in the river community of 6,123 ...

BEARDSTOWN -- The children who died last week after they were swept into the Illinois River at Beardstown were brothers, according to authorities. The bodies of Briston M. Dunmire, 15, and Jorden ...

Waste from the JBS pig slaughterhouse in Beardstown, Ill., courses through a series of drainage ditches and canals and eventually into a tributary of the Illinois River.

BEARDSTOWN — The Illinois River is breaking more than its 2013 record. It's tearing up roads, too. Two new sinkholes have opened up along Main Street since the river hit major flooding stages ...

BEARDSTOWN, Ill. (AP) - Flooding continues in parts of Illinois after the state saw its rainiest June on record. The National Weather Service on Thursday reported major flooding on the Illinois ...

BEARDSTOWN — The Illinois Department of Transportation has moved on to the second stage of repair work for the Beardstown bridge that crosses the Illinois River. the work has moved to a longer ...

The Illinois River at Beardstown was at 27.8 feet Friday, according to the National Weather Service. Flood stage is 14 feet, and major flood stage is at 28 feet. Advertisement.

BEARDSTOWN - Marty Fischer thinks this small central Illinois town has been robbed of a stake in history long credited to its bigger neighbors about 75 miles up the Illinois River. Fischer says ...

CHICAGO — A Central Illinois pork-processing plant last year discharged more nitrogen from animal waste into waterways than any other slaughterhouse in the country, according to a report.

The Illinois River Cities and Towns Initiative, ... La Salle, Peru and Beardstown. The City Council voted 9-2 on Tuesday to pay the $22,630 membership fee to join the IRCTI.