The state’s unemployment rate was +1.2 percentage points higher than the national unemployment rate reported for October. The national unemployment rate was 4.1 percent in October, unchanged from the ...

Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, tells the Senate Executive Committee he’d like to hold a bill prohibiting the use of ...

Barn and Bottle Winery is located near the intersection of US Route 40 and Illinois Route 128, west of Altamont. The winery ...

Visit Effingham presents another year of Wonderland in Lights at Community Park!

The pedestian hit and killed by a car last Saturday night in Cumberland County was an Altamont resident. The man was 34-year-old Sean Magill, according to Cumberland County Coroner Steve Sherwood.

An Effingham man was injured when the motorized bicycle he was operating struck a vehicle. The man, 22-year-old Brant Gordon, was traveling along Keller Drive just after 4:30pm Wednesday at the ...

Diego Green is the son of Greg Green who was inducted into the Effingham St. Anthony High School Hall of Fame this past spring. Diego will be heading to compete at Notre Dame next year where his ...

Details have been released on a three-vehicle crash resulting in injuries at Dieterich. The crash occurred at 9:30am last Friday on Illinois Route 33, just west of Norb Avenue on the west edge of ...

Biggs said in 3rd grade through high school assessments, summative designation scores have increased year-over-year for the last four years. Those include Grades 3-8 ELA and Math, Grades 5, 8, and ...