Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made her second visit of the year to Illinois on Friday to condemn the ...

A federal judge on Friday denied former Illinois Speaker Michael Madigan’s legal arguments that he should remain out of ...

"I worked to be the one everyone could count on and look up to in the future and the one everyone on the other team didn't ...

Successful democracies endanger their success because of the complacency success breeds. They solve problems only when lashed by necessity: Britain considered Winston Churchill a Cassandra — until the ...

Funeral services have been set for a 9-year-old girl who drowned in the Kaskaskia River. Ava Leona Delilah Baker of Mattoon was reported missing on Saturday, Aug. 2 and she was found on Sunday, Aug. 3 ...

The “Soldier Boy” statue that used to stand outside Effingham’s VFW Theodore Hoffman Post 1769 has been restored and ...

Rios — the 2025 Effingham Daily News Softball Player of the Year — ended her career with St. Anthony on a high note during ...

NEWTON — Sydney Kinder felt she was at her "peak" when she was a sophomore on the Newton track and field team. That season ...

We’re tempted to cheer that divorce rates have (so far) decreased for millennials who married in the 2010s, according to new research from the Institute for Family Studies. But behind ...

State officials ushered in the start of the Illinois State Fair on Wednesday with the annual unveiling of the butter cow.

The 2025 Effingham County Fair broke records for rodeo attendance, number of demolition derby contestants, number of ...

Longtime Chicago lobbyist Jay Doherty was sentenced Tuesday to a year and a day in prison for his role in a yearslong bribery ...