Union County had the greatest increase in population, growing by 10.4 percent from 63,085 to 69,637 between 2020 and 2023.

A boil water advisory affecting 20,000 DeKalb County residents is still in effect as of Friday, Jan. 16, and DeKalb County has no estimate on when it will be lifted.

Early on January 17, a power outage was reported in Murphysboro, Illinois. According to Ameren's outage map, nearly 5,700 ...