GLASFORD - Band director Darren Seymour faced a simple task: plan a yearly concert at Illini Bluffs School District 327.

In the heart of Illinois, the city of Peoria cut its workforce by almost one-fifth to pay its annual obligations for police and firefighter pensions.

Gov. JB Pritzker will soon have more bills to consider signing after the Illinois House this week approved three measures which had already passed in the Senate.

MACOMB - A fire early Saturday in downtown Macomb resulted in the death of one person, authorities said.

FORT HOOD, TEXAS - A few weeks after a military jury sentenced Nidal Hasan to death in the 2009 shooting massacre at Fort Hood, Lt.