Learn, Explore, Grow! That’s what the kindergarten through eighth grade students at Blessed Sacrament School accomplished in their inaugural year of Smart Art.
 

DeWayne Bartels was posthumously awarded two first-place plaques at the annual Illinois Press Association awards ceremony.
Bartels, the former editor of the East Peoria Times-Courier, won in Division B in both original column and headline writing.

SPRINGFIELD -- An unusual surge in tax collections coming into the state in April allowed Illinois to make substantial payments to a number of vendors, including social-service agencies, but the state comptroller is warning officials not to get...

Morton High School won its first Illinois High School Association state championship in 29 years.

Some motor vehicle use has become limited in Morton.
 
An ordinance prohibiting recreational operation of the vehicles was passed at the June 3 meeting by the...

It will cost an estimated $2.8 million to replace the antiquated and inefficient heating system at Morton High School.
The price tag does not include asbestos or mold removal, new ceilings and lighting...

The Morton Chamber of Commerce announced that The Free Agents Brass Band, a jazz band from New Orleans, will be playing at this year’s Morton Pumpkin Festival.
 

GRANVILLE -- Closing the doors of a 43-year local institution was not something that longtime independent pharmacy owner Marlin Weekley of Metamora wanted to be doing last month.

The American Pickers' trip through Washington will air 8 p.m. June 10.

Morton is a back-to-back Class 2A Notre Dame Sectional champion.
In overtime May 24, the Potters' girls soccer team upended the host Irish, 1-0.

When the survivor lap kicks off at Relay For Life at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, 4-year-old Beckham Zobrist and his family will be out in front.
 
Erin Zobrist,...