The Al Sears Music Fest will return Sept. 19-21 with a variety of performances in downtown Macomb.

City leaders in Macomb continue to hold weekly meetings with a pair of consulting firms to discuss the possibility of building an indoor sports complex in Macomb.

Now that repairs to a wall surrounding the stage at Galesburg’s Orpheum Theatre have been completed, it’s showtime again.

New Philadelphia in Pike County is the first town planned and legally registered in the U.S. by Black people.

At a briefing on Tuesday, Sheriff Nick Petitgout said he is "99% certain that Eric Warren-Spears killed Cheyenna Decker.”

Stephanie ‘Stevie’ Borders had just turned 18 when she left her parents’ Bushnell home to listen to a band at a local bar on Sept. 9, 2000. Her body would be found eight months later, concealed in a well off a gravel road north of Avon. State police say Borders’ death is a drug-induced homicide — and the concealment is part of the crime. But 25 years later, no one has ever been held accountable.

The shooting happened on Aug. 5 in rural Burlington.

Spoon River College President Curt Oldfield said he is especially proud of the investment the college made in career and technical education with its new Macomb campus.

Around 300 students are taking classes on SRC's new Macomb campus, and there is room to expand to accommodate even more.

City leaders believe the district will spur economic development and help them address blighted areas.