U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, of Springfield, said Tuesday that he hopes to become the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee now that Sen.

Right at 7 a.m. Tuesday, a U-Haul truck loaded with boxes of turkeys and pumpkin and apple pies pulls into the Temple Israel parking lot.

Deaths from COVID-19 returned to triple digits Tuesday with another 125 people succumbing to the illness.

Two more Sangamon County residents, including a woman in her 50s, have died with COVID-19, officials said Tuesday.

Springfield, state and federal officials Tuesday cut the ribbon on a near-mile-long segment of a widened Archer Elevator Road, from Wabash Avenue north to near Iles Avenue.

Illinois will get far fewer initial doses of a COVID-19 vaccine than originally thought, the state's top health official said Tuesday.

CHAMPAIGN -It's easy to imagine what the buzz around Champaign-Urbana would have been like if this was a non-pandemic basketball season.

CHAMPAIGN -University of Illinois punter Blake Hayes has been a fan favorite almost since he first donned the uniform back in 2017.A late edition to Lovie Smith's Class of 2017, Hayes was a promising prospect from across the world - in Melbourne, Australia - where the respected ProKick Australia program is based.