Old Route 66 News Reports in Illinois

Funeral services have been set for a high school football coach who died Wednesday in a single-vehicle crash in southern Illinois. Nicholas '?Nick'? Dillon, 47, of Anna had joined the Anna-Jonesboro ... Read More

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A motorcycle passenger has died days after a crash near Antioch, Illinois, according to the Lake County Coroner's Office. The crash happened on Saturday, around 8:30 p.m., in the area of Route 59 and ... Read More

The semitruck collided with a dump truck that had crossed the center line to avoid hitting a stopped fuel tanker. Read More

The semitruck collided with a dump truck that had crossed the center line to avoid hitting a stopped fuel tanker. Read More

The Madison County Coroner says an Alton man was killed in a head on crash on Illinois Highway 159 Tuesday afternoon. 67-year-old James H. Roberts was pronounced dead at the ... Read More

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Hall was a passenger on a 1989 Harley-Davidson motorcycle that crashed at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday near Illinois Route 59 and Diemer Street. Read More

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James H. Roberts, 67, was hauling rock in a semi-truck, heading south on Highway 159 when he crashed near North Deer Park Drive, authorities said. Read More

More than a dozen police vehicles responded to a scene overnight Thursday near the 900 block of S Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Read More

More than a dozen police vehicles responded to a scene overnight Thursday near the 900 block of S Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Read More

The New York State transportation and labor departments have made it ... Shakeila Brown lived within walking distance of the highway when she decided she wanted to work on it. She said she walked into ... Read More

Nineteen people have been hurt after a jail transport van collided with another vehicle and struck a pole in northeastern Illinois. Grayslake Hainesville Police Chief Jeff Myhra says in a ... Read More

The crash happened around 1:30 p.m. at the intersection of Illinois Route 120 and Hainesville Road, according to the McHenry County Sheriff's office. The van was transporting inmates from the Lake ... Read More

The Peoria Police Department is looking for a stolen vehicle that was carrying a 3-year-old child Wednesday morning. Police said that at 10:49 a.m., they were called to the 2000 block of ... Read More

19 people were hospitalized, including 16 inmates, after they were injured in a crash involving a prisoner transport bus and an SUV in Hainesville Wednesday afternoon. Read More

Coke, a distilled version of coal, is an important fuel for the dwindling number of remaining integrated mills that turn iron ore into finished steel. Read More

Nineteen people, including two drivers, were taken to five different hospitals Wednesday following a two-vehicle crash involving a van that was transporting prisoners from the Lake County Jail to ... Read More

One lane of westbound U.S. Route 60 will be closed starting tomorrow while crews install signs over the road. Starting Sept. 5, contractors will be installing truss signs as ... Read More

AG Kwame Raoul and a coalition filed an amicus brief supporting the FDA's effort to block interstate sales of certain flavored e-cigarettes to protect minors. Read More

The Indian Air Force is providing relief materials to people stranded in their homes in flood-hit areas of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The water level has started receding in parts of the states but ... Read More