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Some people can walk into a cemetery they know is haunted and remain completely calm, but probably not this one.

You might want to look twice before you jump in the water after you see a video that proves a water park in Illinois really did have an alligator swimming in it.

The FBI says that in 2020, there were 314 burglaries for every 100,000 people nationwide. However, in three Illinois cities, that number was a whole lot higher.

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...