Beardstown News

A group making plans for the west central Illinois portion of the 223-mile U.S. 67 said a new bridge over the Illinois River and a 6.4-mile stretch of highway improvements remain at the forefront of initiatives.

Two to three inches of rain over the past two days closed highways and caused flood warnings to be issued for some Illinois River towns.

Trick-or-treaters will be allowed to go door to door begging for candy both Friday and Saturday nights in Jacksonville, South Jacksonville and Pittsfield.

The population will grow by 60 people on Friday when several dozen Jacksonville-area immigrants become U.S. citizens.

Three people, including a police officer, were injured Wednesday when a police car and sport utility vehicle collided at a Beardstown intersection.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 5:52 p.m. A Tri-State man is expanding his efforts to bring the spirit of Christmas to more area children.

The streets of Beardstown will be filled with holiday spirit in November when the city has its first-ever nighttime Christmas parade.

A Beardstown school district official will receive statewide recognition next month for defending a book some parents sought to have removed from the library shelves.

Volunteers from the Pleasant Plains Historical Society spend every Saturday cleaning out buildings at the Clayville Historic Site.

BEARDSTOWN, Ill. - Butch Williams is living his dream. In fact, it may be the dream of many of us cubicle-bound, computer-dependent drones.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 9:09 a.m. A A The Mississippi River Commission has been touring the Illinois River for the first time since 1976.

The Mississippi River Commission is conducting its annual low-water inspection trip August 9-21, 2009.

Two men tried to rob a Beardstown store Thursday, but were scared away before anything could be taken.

Despite cloudy skies, Sunday was a bright day in the life of Brigitte Boyce of Beardstown.

Kelsey Honkala, of Ashland, captured the title of 2009 Miss Cass County Fair Queen Tuesday night at the fairgrounds in Virginia.

The Beardstown Police Department is hosting a two-day training program designed to prepare local law enforcement officials to combat street gangs.

A Beardstown, Illinois family is finally living out their American Dream. Habitat for Humanity of Cass and Schuyler Counties dedicated their third home in the twocounty region Sunday afternoon.

Six Illinois banks ultimately controlled by the same ownership group were among the seven new bank failures last week, making the state home to the second most bank collapses in the financial crisis.

Another bank in Western Illinois gets taken over by the F-D-I-C and will reopen Monday morning under a new name.

Facing a holiday weekend, the FDIC got a jump on its usual Friday bank closures, by shuttering a record seven banks on Thursday.