Fifteen Illinois communities, including Jacksonville and Beardstown, will receive state funding from the Lead Service Line ...

BEARDSTOWN — City Council is scheduled to meet in regular session by 7 p.m. today in City Hall, 105 W. Third St. The meeting will follow a 6 p.m. committee meeting. Among the items on the agenda are: ...

Janice H. “Jan” Grant of Springfield, Illinois, passed away on February 22, 2025, at Memorial Hospital in Springfield. Jan was born in Beardstown, Illinois, September 4, 1927, the daughter of ...

The 6-foot-5 Cooksey, while averaging 14.3 points overall, entered the week at just 35-of-129 on 3-pointers this season for 27.1% — after he had converted a school-record 69 triples last season ...

A bill to redraw the Indiana-Illinois border received initial approval Monday in an Indiana House committee, but the discussion opened up a Pandora’s box, with some of its Illinois supporters ...

A measure aimed at allowing Indiana to absorb 33 counties in Illinois that have voted in recent years to leave the state has cleared its first legislative hurdle, but the effort faces a major ...

VIRGINIA — The bite was worse than the bark for a Beardstown man facing a felony charge in the theft of a tree and copper wiring as part of a months-long investigation by Cass County authorities.