SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - The theme of the 2025 Illinois State Fair will be Adventure Awaits. The Twilight Parade will kick off at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 7.

Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion and rebranded it to X, auctioning off old memorabilia like the iconic blue bird logo ...

State unemployment rate remains higher than national average Illinois’ unemployment rate in May was 4.8%, higher than the national average of 4.2%.

The Illinois Secretary of State’s Office investigation revealed that other law enforcement agencies conducted 262 immigration-related searches on Mount Prospect’s ALPR data.

Illinois State University officials in Normal sent out an emergency alert of a report of shots fired at the Bone Student Center just before 8 p.m. on April 27.

State police responded to a crash involving a semi and a box truck around 1:40 p.m. Thursday. Lanes remained closed until just after 4 p.m.

A young man died after he was pulled from Lake Michigan at Illinois Beach State Park near the Wisconsin state line Tuesday evening. Several fire departments were called to the Camp Logan area of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias spoke Thursday morning on reports that Texas police illegally accessed Illinois automatic license plate reader data to track down a ...

Kirk is also slated to visit the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus on Tuesday before stops at Purdue and Michigan State universities. Contact Drew Zimmerman at 309-820-3276.

Three-star edge rusher Jaylen Stewart had previously committed to Oklahoma State, but on Sunday he changed his mind and committed to Illinois, per Jeremy Werner of 247Sports.

The American Robin became our state bird going all the way back in 1926, when the state Federation of Women's Clubs sponsored a bird study program in Wisconsin public schools.

The Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association announced its all-state teams for the 2025 spring season. A total of 164 athletes were named to the annual honor teams.