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Jacksonville Routt's upset bid was dashed in the final seconds against Class 1A defending champion Camp Point Central ...

Springfield High's Brody Scheffler and Kale Thurman didn't have the only clutch plays in the area in this week's top takeaways in football ...

Jacksonville took a 29-28 lead with 62 seconds left. That turned out to be plenty of time for Brody Scheffler and Kale ...

Braddock Cates bolted out of the gates with a touchdown run in the opening two minutes and the Williamsville football team ...

The Normal U-High offense jumped out to a big lead and stymied Glenwood almost the entire night to earn first CS8 win over ...

The junior running back rushed for 134 yards on seven carries with two touchdowns in Rochester's 55-0 victory over Decatur Eisenhower in the Central State Eight Conference. Stout had TD runs of 6 ...

A botched drug deal may have led to the fatal shooting of Torres L. Johnson II, a 10-year-old boy who lived in Peoria but had ties to Springfield. Witnesses said the shooting happened after a drug ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Illinois rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased to ...

Boar's Head, generally considered a premier deli meat brand, continues to grapple with a listeria outbreak − the largest since the cantaloupe outbreak of 2011 − that has left 10 dead.