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Proposed closing of 4 low-level prison facilities draws sharp rebuke in Du Quoin
IDOC says the four closures will save a combined $35.9 million in capital costs and $6.5 million in annual operating ...
Study finds Illinois’ Displaced Energy Workers Bill of Rights falls short
Researchers found that limited enforcement authority leaves workers vulnerable when employers fail to comply with current laws.
Man who threatened mass shooting at McKendree University pleads guilty
The messages he sent in 2025 repeatedly invoked the phrase ‘pain and tears forever.’
DeSoto man who struck boy, mother 117 times with a bat pleads guilty to murder
Marcus Moultrie, 37, pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder charges.
Prosecutors: Man charged with killing 8-year-old DeSoto boy tried to hire inmate to kill boy’s mother
A DeSoto man charged with killing an 8-year-old boy is accused of trying to hire a fellow inmate to kill ...
For scuba diving enthusiasts, Mermet Springs is ‘the best place in the Midwest’
Sometimes a person doesn’t just discover a place. It discovers them, too. For Glen Faith, that place was an abandoned ...
Travelers flocked to the ‘Middle of Everything’ last year, generating over $88 billion in economic impact
Travelers spent over $50 billion – a first for the state.
Feds: Southern Illinois coal mine managers concealed ‘deadly conditions’
This is the latest in a series of state and federal actions against the mine’s operators.
State to lay off hundreds at troubled southern Illinois mental health facility
The troubled facility in southern Illinois is giving way to a need for more mental health beds in Chicago, state ...
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