Rt 45 South Illinois News Reports

There is a risk of flooding Friday across the Chicago area amid heavy rain mixing with frozen soil and rivers, officials said. Read More

Nader Qasem is part of the family-owned iDeal Furniture store on Camp Jackson Road in Cahokia Heights. The business is less than a mile from Interstate 255. Read More

Starting on Saturday a stretch of Interstate 255 in St. Clair County will close for six months. The 3.5-mile stretch of interstate from Illinois 157 to Illinois 15 will be closed starting on February ... Read More

On Feb. 3, the Water Division begins repairs, reducing Auburn Street to one lane for westbound traffic beginning at Virginia Avenue. The repairs are expected to take 1-3 business days. Read More

Congress passed the FAA Reauthorization Act last year that called for thousands of new air traffic controllers across the nation, but the Trump administration's efforts to freeze hiring across the ... Read More

Two people who were killed in a crash on Thursday in Peotone Township have been identified as Richard Wayt, 77, and Kathleen Wayt, 63, both of Frankfort, the Will County Coroner's Office said in a ... Read More

Illinois Route 48 was temporarily closed after a semi-truck drove off a bridge in Macon County overnight. At approximately 12:44 a.m., Illinois State Police Troop 7 responded to Interstate 72 at IL ... Read More

An Alton School District bus collided with a Kia Sorento near Alton High School, injuring the Kia driver. No children were on the bus. Read More

A man is dead after a single-vehicle crash in Bloomington on Thursday. According to the Bloomington Police Department, officers were sent to the crash near Regency and Fairway Drives at approximately ... Read More

The identity of the Freeburg man who after he stepped out onto the roadway in the 4900 block of Illinois 13 on Tuesday, has been released. Dale Blanford, 35, was struck by an oncoming vehicle, ... Read More

FREEBURG - A Freeburg man who was killed Tuesday night, Jan. 28, 2025, after stepping onto the roadway in the 4900 block of Illinois 13 and being struck ... Read More

U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth is a former military helicopter pilot and chair of the Senate committee on aviation safety. Read More

A truck-tractor semi-trailer crash early Friday morning led to the closure of Illinois Route 48 and sent two individuals to the hospital with non-life-threateni ... Read More

EDWARDSVILLE / ALTON - Learn about the people who made an impact on the nation's most famous highway Route 66 during two speaker series events planned ... Read More

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - Two people were hospitalized after a semi crash shut down Route 48 in Decatur early Friday. At 12:45 a.m. Illinois State Police said a semi lost control, left Interstate 72, ... Read More

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - A semi crash shut down Route 48 in Decatur early Friday morning. The crash happened at I-72 on the city's northeast. A WAND News crew spotted a semi partially split open under ... Read More

Two people were killed and four others injured in a three-vehicle crash involving a garbage truck near Peotone. Read More

Two people were killed and four others injured in a three-vehicle crash involving a garbage truck near Peotone. Read More

ST. CLAIR COUNTY - Commuters who use Interstate 255 will have their daily routines shaken up when a 3.5-mile stretch of the highway in Cahokia Heights and Sauget shuts down early Saturday for six ... Read More