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Holiday drives and Holiday performances this weekend

December 14, 2018 | Local News |Tyler

The Boatload of Toys holiday toy drive runs from December 14th...

Route 41 crash sends Monmouth couple to ICU

December 13, 2018 | Local News |cameronl

A Monmouth couple is being treated in OSF St. Francis' ICU...

Meteorologist expecting above averages temps through December

December 13, 2018 | Local News |Nick

Knox County and large parts of the Midwest already have experienced...

Midstate Manufacturing adding 77 jobs, expanding operations

December 12, 2018 | Local News |cameronl

Midstate Manufacturing is growing their company and plans to add 77...

Felony charges filed following domestic disturbance

December 12, 2018 | Local News, Uncategorized |Nick

Two family members are facing felony charges after an alleged domestic...

Ag Department writing rules to govern industrial hemp

December 12, 2018 | Local News |cameronl

The Illinois Department of Agriculture is currently writing rules that would...

Knox County moving forward with energy savings project

December 11, 2018 | Local News |cameronl

An energy savings project that had been presented to the Knox...

“ReConnect”ing young professionals to Galesburg

December 13, 2018 | Galesburg's Evening News, Interviews |wills

It may be easy for the parents of young professionals to...

Celebrate Christmas with Sugar High Theatricals this weekend!

December 12, 2018 | Galesburg's Evening News, Interviews |wills

Ring in the holidays by singing, and listening to, some of...

Pritzker and Stratton “meet the press”

December 10, 2018 | Galesburg's Evening News, Interviews |wills

Following their speeches in Galesburg Monday, Governor-Elect J.B. Pritzker and Lieutenant...

WGIL’s Galesburg Live for Saturday, December 8th

December 8, 2018 | Galesburg Live, Interviews |wills

Will Stevenson hosted WGIL's Galesburg Live on Saturday, December 8th. In...

Ringing in the holidays on a low note with TubaChristmas

December 7, 2018 | Galesburg's Evening News, Interviews |wills

It's one of hundreds of such events to mark the holiday...

Candy company to move into old Chicago Post Office building

CHICAGO (AP) – There’s some sweet news for the massive old Chicago Post Office building.

Man gets life in prison for 2016 bludgeoning deaths of pair

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) – A man convicted in the 2016 bludgeoning deaths of a man and woman in a suburban Chicago auto body shop has been sentenced to life in prison.

Central Illinois cereal maker shuts down

GRIDLEY, Ill. (AP) – A company that’s the largest employer in the small central Illinois village of Gridley has closed because not enough people were buying the cereal it made.

Illinois DCFS sued over care of mentally ill foster children

CHICAGO (AP) – A county public guardian in Illinois is suing the state’s Department of Children and Family Services over what it contends is the “immense harm” the agency is doing to mentally ill foster […]

Interim leader approved for SIU’s Carbondale campus

CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) – A former administrator at Southern Illinois University’s Carbondale campus has been approved as its temporary leader while the university conducts a search to fill the position.