Peoria Notre Dame's Lexi Baer earned the inaugural Illinois POY award in Class 2A, one of 11 from around the area named all-state by the media.

Nominees from Dunlap, East Peoria, Notre Dame and more up for Journal Star high school athlete of the week for March 17-22.

In Brimfield, students have rallied under the “Indians” mascot for as long as current Superintendent Chad Jones can remember.

The Carthage seventh-grade volleyball team played in the Illinois Elementary School Association (IESA) 7-2A volleyball ...

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The federal government will shut down if a funding bill is not passed by the end of Friday. Illinois has over 40,000 federal civilian employees who could be working with pay, working without pay ...

May 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Claire Rush) The Indiana Statehouse is seen May 5, 2017, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File) Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker delivers his State of the State and budget ...

Illinois proved as much last season, when it won a Big Ten Tournament title and kept on streaking all the way into the Elite Eight, stopped only by eventual NCAA champion UConn. Do the Illini (20 ...

Illinois’ Kasparas Jakucionis snags a late rebound in an 88-80 win against Purdue at State Farm Center on March 7, 2025. Justin Casterline/Getty Share CHAMPAIGN — As three-game losing streaks ...

When Morez Johnson Jr. took an ugly spill against Michigan State in an Illinois loss on Feb. 15 in Champaign and it was learned that he had suffered a broken left wrist, the fear was that the ...

After thousands of submissions, 10 finalists and nearly 385,000 votes, the state of Illinois may not have a new flag after all. "The results are, let's just say, overwhelming," Illinois Secretary ...