Twenty jobs at the Illinois Department of Transportation are being reclassified to bring them under anti-patronage protections.

Well, that was fast.

Six people were displaced after their home on Springfield's north end sustained heavy damage in a fire Friday afternoon.

A former Chatham Police Department officer who resigned after admitting to receiving sex while on duty is the subject of an Illinois State Police investigation.

HONEY BEND - Looking for a job and a future, Ken Potts saw little hope in central Illinois.

Three Illinois prison guard face federal charges after they allegedly assaulted an inmate at the Western Illinois Correctional Center who later died of his injuries.

Saturday is the 78th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, the event that brought the United States into World War II.

PENSACOLA, Fla.

NEW YORK - The U.S. winter flu season is off to its earliest start in more than 15 years.