Below are area sports results from junior high contests held on Wednesday. You can e-mail results to Daily News Sports Editor Alex Wallner at [email protected]. Local news, sports ...

Rios — the 2025 Effingham Daily News Softball Player of the Year — ended her career with St. Anthony on a high note during ...

"I worked to be the one everyone could count on and look up to in the future and the one everyone on the other team didn't ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker vowed on late-night television to protect Texas House Democrats who fled to Illinois to try and stop the Republican-controlled state legislature from redrawing congressional distric ...

State officials ushered in the start of the Illinois State Fair on Wednesday with the annual unveiling of the butter cow.

The 2025 Effingham County Fair broke records for rodeo attendance, number of demolition derby contestants, number of ...

Seiya Suzuki homered, Cade Horton threw 5 2/3 scoreless innings and the Cubs prevented a sweep from the Reds by winning 6-1. The sixth-inning solo shot was Suzuki’s 27th home ...