Toxic blue-green algae appears in lakes across the Midwest during the summer and can sicken people and animals. But few states have routine testing programs.
The zoo's ever-popular Zooline entered the railroad business on Aug. 29, 1963, with a ceremony at the original station near the bear pits. Zoo director Marlin Perkins and zoo board chairman Howard Baer whacked at a "golden spike" to completeβ¦
The Festival of Nations returned to Tower Grove Park on Saturday after a two-year absence. The region's leading multicultural event drew droves of people on the first day.
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is seeking information about how attendance and suspensions were recorded, and is suggesting the district violated due process and rules regarding virtual education.
A 23-year-old Hillsboro area woman died Friday morning when the car she was riding in hit a tree and overturned off Glade Chapel Road north of Hillsboro.
Election officials are sending applications for permanent permission to vote by mail to each of Illinois' 8 million registered voters under a law passed last year.
Pinky the boxer was found the evening of Aug. 25, 2022, after 30 days on the run. She fled the same day she was rescued from rising floodwater in Brentwood.