UPDATE: A powerful tornado tore through the Illinois community of Mount Zion on Sunday afternoon, causing significant damage to multiple homes. Mount Zion is located about eight miles southeast of ...

Community members will have the chance to have their voices heard on Decatur’s easement with ADM to store carbon dioxide ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - A man shot and killed Christmas night in Decatur has been identified. The Decatur Police Department was called to the 900 block of W. View St. at 5:07 p.m. for gunshots.

A Tornado Watch was issued in most of central Illinois and some parts of Indiana on Sunday. The National Weather Service said that the alert was issued until 8 PM CT. Several tornado warnings were ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — Police are investigating after a woman was shot while sitting in her car near the CVS in north Decatur Sunday night. It happened at the intersection of West Pershing Road and N.

Hundreds of Illinoisans made the secretary of state’s naughty list this year after trying to customize their license plates in a lewd or indecent manner. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias ...

From their cozy homes in suburban Burlington, children curiously watch their new neighbors through windows and brainstorm nicknames. Earlier this month, with their distinctive brown fur, big heads, ...

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SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois State Fair is synonymous with tradition. Yet the annual celebration of the state’s robust agriculture industry is constantly reinventing itself — a concept fair organizers ...