decatur

For nearly 70 years, a "metro area" was defined by a population of 50,000 people or more. Now, a change would make it 100,000 people to carry that designation.

Talk about bad luck! A woman from downstate Decatur will not get $50,000.00 that she won from the Illinois lottery, even though she purchased the actual winning ticket. The reason she will not get the money is because of the person she lived with.

New figures released this month by the U.S. Census Bureau show Rockford's population is declining at a rate surpassed by only a handful of cities across the country.
Officials estimate the number of people living in Rockford has fallen from 153,054 in 2010 to 149,123 in 2014...