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Illinois DCFS director to step down after agency hit with another scathing audit
Belleville News-Democrat via Yahoo News· 8 months ago“Illinois foster children had been ‘anguishing’ in psychiatric hospitals, staying ‘beyond medical...
Predicting wins, losses and where every Big Ten team will finish this season
Spartans Wire via Yahoo Sports· 2 years agoCollege football is finally back… well, almost back. We have flipped the calendar to August and that...
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker appoints juvenile justice veteran to run embattled child welfare agency
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 5 months agoGov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday announced a new leader for the Illinois Department of Children and...
Dale Anderson, in prison for one of the metro-east’s most notorious murder cases, has died
Belleville News-Democrat via Yahoo News· 12 months agoDale Anderson, who was serving a life sentence for killing a Belleville-area woman and her...
Greene County man appeals sentence in 1995 murder of Pam Foddrill
The Herald-Times via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIt was a 22-year-old man out target shooting in the woods near the Indiana-Illinois state line who...
Big Ten football preseason power rankings
Buckeyes Wire via Yahoo Sports· 9 months agoAfter every week of the college football season, we take a stab at ranking all of the Big Ten teams based on which are playing the best. It’s not a...
'Broken glass being stabbed into my bones': Springfield IL reporter fights sickle cell
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe pain of glass shattering throughout my body is a feeling I can remember having since I was 9 years old. I couldn't understand what was happening, but it felt like the tip of broken glass ...
Proposed CWLP storage facility draws ire of group for its proximity to 1908 race riot site
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA home for a new City Water, Light and Power storage facility has drawn condemnation from a group...
My Favorite Ride: Tracking down this 1963 Plymouth Fury wasn't so hard
The Herald-Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI found him. Evan Derry, and his great old car, a baby blue 1963 Plymouth Fury. Last week's column...
Embattled child welfare agency head Marc Smith’s departure leaves Gov. J.B. Pritkzer with a...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe resignation of the head of Illinois’ child welfare agency leaves Gov. J.B. Pritzker with the...