17 Illinois News Reports

HENRY Co., Ill. (KWQC) - Beginning July 15, I-74 will experience lane closures. Interstate 74 will be having one lane closed in each direction for patching. The work zone is set to be from the '?Big X'? ... Read More

Forecasters are warning about severe thunderstorms that will bring the threat of hurricane-force winds, tornadoes and damaging hail to the Chicagoland area Monday evening. The National Weather Service ... Read More

The bridge provides access over the interstate to the Crab Orchard Greenway, a 20-mile regional multi-use trail. Read More

Russell L. Bright, 63, was pronounced dead at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana around 12:14 p.m. on July 12 from multiple traumatic injuries sustained during a July 4 accident. Read More

Damaging wind will be the main hazard, but hail, a tornado and localized heavy rain also are possible, the National Weather Service said. Read More

CARMI, Ill. -- Two people are dead and another injured after a crash involving two vehicles in Carmi on Friday afternoon. Illinois State Police (ISP) updated News 3 on the incident which took place at ... Read More

Lightning flashed over Chicago, Illinois, as the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a tornado warning for the area on Sunday, July 14. This footage was captured by Jason Hoffman, who said that he ... Read More

Forecasters say 'torrential rains' are likely. Chicago is under a flood watch. The storm could drop 2 to 3 inches of rain and bring winds in excess of 58 mph. Another storm system could move through ... Read More

Illinois residents joined hands as dedicated volunteers of the global non-profit organization Dr. Shri. Nanasaheb Dharmadhikari Pratishthan (DSNDP), undertaking an Adopt-A-Highway cleanup drive in ... Read More

A severe storm watch was issued Sunday evening for scattered to numerous showers moving through northern Illinois and to the east. Chicago will experience the most downpours between 7 and 11 p.m. as ... Read More

URBANA - The Champaign County Coroner has identified an Alabama man who died Friday at an Urbana hospital from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash a week earlier on Interstate 57 in ... Coroner's ... Read More

Evacuation orders and warnings are in place for 4,200 people in the area and about 4,100 structures are threatened. Highway 3 is back open between Etna and Fort Jones. "Yesterday, the fire experienced ... Read More

Officials highlighted the Interstate 90 corridor between Chicago and Rockford as an area that could have the ... The most severe band of Monday's storms were expected to hit all of northern Illinois, ... Read More

A man was hospitalized after his vehicle apparently exploded in the parking lot of a park in suburban Naperville on Tuesday night. According to police, officers were called to the area of ... Read More

CBS Chicago has issued a weather alert for heat and storm threats. A Flood Watch is also in effect until 1 p.m. Read More

CHICAGO - Earl Lory, a devoted husband and father of three, was a '?very deep soul'? with an intuitive understanding of other people, his family said. The 34-year-old Belmont Cragin resident loved ... Read More

A pickup driver died after rear-ending a semi early Saturday on Interstate 55 near southwest suburban Summit ... he slammed into the back of a semi traveling in the center lane, Illinois State Police ... Read More

Three people have been hospitalized after a two-vehicle crash in Cahokia Heights Friday evening. Cahokia Volunteer Fire Department was sent to the scene of a crash on Illinois Route 3, south of ... Read More

Jakyla Hester is charged with aggravated DUI causing death after a fatal wrong-way crash on the Kennedy Expressway. Read More